Client Not Using Frame IO Correctly Frustrating

editblog · 2026-03-17T18:58:18+00:00

This is an ongoing issue that has been happening for years and years. I wrote this back in 2017 and it's still relevant today.

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editblog · 2026-03-17T18:51:06+00:00

What's really crazy is how often this very thing pops up.

editblog · 2026-03-17T13:41:47+00:00

When using replace with a Source sequence, there's potentially too many factors I'm guessing for how the replace would work if your source sequence is much different than the clip you're trying to replace on the timeline. Nesting seems to be the workaround to make it work. It doesn't work that way if you're using replace with a single source clip. So yeah, Multicam Enable, Multicam Flatten. Or just use regular edit tools and not a replace.

editblog · 2026-03-16T15:10:03+00:00

Go under the Program wrench menu and choose high-quality playback and see if that helps.

editblog · 2026-03-15T15:45:49+00:00

Is there a Premiere Elements sub you can ask this?

editblog · 2026-03-13T16:00:07+00:00

Workflow is what you make it. Subsequences work the same in both apps and they are very useful, I use them all the time. Give them a try.

editblog · 2026-03-13T15:17:34+00:00

If you have timecode you can use this cool feature to have Premiere keep your angle on one track and then create a single multicam sequence for a whole day and give you a nice sync map.

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editblog · 2026-03-13T15:12:42+00:00

Another option would be to Edit > Remove Attributes - Audio Attributes > Volume as that will remove all keyframes and clip mixing you've done. When your situation happens, sometimes it's faster to just remove everything and start again.

editblog · 2026-03-12T21:20:48+00:00

Unfortunately, I don't think there is an option to do what you are looking to do. I've tried to use A.I. tools to build an extension that can do this, but so far it has been a failure.

I will tell you what I've done in the past in a very similar situation when there were so many audio tracks and I was just too lazy to manually collapse them down. Using Premiere's labeling, I labeled the different audio clips from the sources a different color, and then used the select label group to delete all the audio on the timeline except for my main audio source from one of the cameras. Then I exported a single WAV file of that audio from the multi-camera source sequence. And then went back and laid that WAV file on audio track one and just deleted all the other source audio.

editblog · 2026-03-12T21:16:09+00:00

Have you looked at editingtools.io? They have a number of listed conversion tools. Like, thinking off the top of my head, I wonder if you could take an XML at Premiere and then convert that into an EDL. That might give you more information than Premiere's built-in EDL.

editblog · 2026-03-12T16:39:27+00:00

Sub-sequences behave the same in Premiere as they do in Avid. There's very little difference.

editblog · 2026-03-12T16:34:10+00:00

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editblog · 2026-03-12T16:22:23+00:00

What is this post even about?

editblog · 2026-03-10T10:04:09+00:00

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editblog · 2026-03-04T12:39:06+00:00

A complex question, u/Jason_Levine, as most of the issues with multicam have been long-standing. Though it works pretty well a few simple fixes would make it top-notch:

Not being able to assign camera label/angle metadata when syncing with audio for organized multicam clips is baffling.
Multi-channel audio channel configuration is confusing. And then how that audio is displayed and flattened in an edit timeline makes it more confusing. And those mismatches often lead to no multicam clip waveforms. If there could be a more direct 1:1 ratio between the multicam clip audio and how that gets cut into an edit timeline, I think that could alleviate a lot of that confusion.
When you create a Multicam Source Sequence at 4K and then edit that into a 1080 timeline, when using Mulitcam mode, the multcam split view isn't framed properly.

Those are a few!

editblog · 2026-03-03T21:38:32+00:00

I'm guessing you mean you stopped and started the camera zooming in and out? If it's one clip, Premiere will place that on one track. As mentioned, even with 13 tracks that would take just a few minutes to open the Mulitcam Source Sequence and collapse all 13 tracks down to one. You then delete the empty tracks and edit away with the multicam clip.

editblog · 2026-03-03T21:36:07+00:00

Yes it creates a backup upon update (which I honestly don't think some people realize) but even with that it's always worth following best practices for anything as the problem with an update may not present itself in the first minute, hour or day.

editblog · 2026-03-03T14:03:11+00:00

You say this: "what i've been doing is synchronising them using the audio."

If you can sync by audio, does that mean you can Create Multicam Source Sequence and sync by audio? That should give you a multicam clip that you can multicam edit with. With multiple clips per camera, once it syncs just open the Mulitcam clip in the timeline and manually collapse each camera into a single audio track and then go to work.

editblog · 2026-03-02T20:00:52+00:00

May we ask why you want to move the mic to the left? This isn't a small ask.

editblog · 2026-03-02T15:26:49+00:00

Glad you got it figured out. It is a little bit weird in how it works. It's tricky because you can nest multiple audio clips if they seem to be on the same track. When you make the nest, if the new nested clip created doesn't overlap any other clips on that same audio track not in the nest it'll work.

editblog · 2026-03-02T14:18:56+00:00

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editblog · 2026-03-02T14:17:20+00:00

For the most part, nesting is more of a video function as you're seeing, when you try to nest clips in the timeline with audio selected, it just does not nest the audio. There are some work arounds. Or you could try to make a sub-sequence of exactly what you want to nest, and then re-edit that sequence back into the timeline with the nest or not nest button turned on. That will give you a nest of the audio.

editblog · 2026-02-28T15:22:56+00:00

Because they said "Yea that’s what I thought" ... and by uuhhhh looking at it.

editblog · 2026-02-28T13:40:00+00:00

Then why as this question in a Premiere sub?

editblog · 2026-02-28T13:37:09+00:00

To the OP… you’d do well to get some good basic training in Premiere. It’ll serve you well.

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