Please Improve Multicam Editing

It is sort of shocking to me that the DaVinci Resolve Multicam editing is so bad. You would think the makers of a huge line of switchers would have great multicam editing.

The multicam editing in FCPX is fantastic except it removed the flatten (decompose in place) that used to be in FCP7. Please reference how FCPX does multicam and either build on that or just be inspired heavily by it.

Here are the things that I request be improved in multicam editing:

-If we are in multicam viewer mode, please leave it on there so we don't have to keep clicking it in order to see it in the preview pane. It is a HUGE waste of time and clicks to keep having to turn the multicam viewer on whenever we click to any other timeline.
-Add some sort of keyboard shortcut to turn on the multicam viewer. Cmd+Shift+7 in FCPX.
-So if you change views for whatever reason, you have to manually click to show the multicam viewer in the drop down under the preview window. Pretty frustrating.
-And there is no multicam view within the multicam timeline itself. We have to manually disable clips or disable tracks to see what is on each track. The multicam viewer should be in the multicam timeline too. That's just crazy.
-If we changed both the audio and video in a multicam on the same cut line, why can't we delete that clip. The audio remains linked.
-In the multicam page, Allow us to move the order of the tracks in the timeline itself instead of having to use the index. Just add a burger icon or some other icon in the far left column next to the track number.
-Please allow us to see the Source Monitor, the Timeline Monitor, and the Inspector at the same time. You can see the Source, Timeline, and Media Pool. So there is room to do it if we turn off the Media Pool. This would be very useful for Multicam Editing.
-Overall using the keyboard shortcuts and trying to edit in real time or faster than real time using keyboard shortcuts is buggy. I end up having to the mouse to make the cuts and switches. That is bad.
-Multicam is just pretty bad and pretty buggy. Sometimes it will let you use keyboard shortcuts to change angles and sometimes it won’t.
-I end up just making a cut on the timeline, then right clicking either the video or the audio and then click switch angle in the right click context menu. I have found this to be the most consistent.
-And I can’t find a good way to manipulate in and out points in the preview monitor on multicam. This is hard to explain in text.

Don't take my word for it, see Larry Jordan's article on it from his blog:

https://larryjordan.com/articles/get-started-multicam-editing-in-davinci-resolve/

If I am missing how to make a keyboard shortcut to show the multicam viewer, please let me know. We searched but couldn't find it. I could just be blind.

Thanks!

Just to state though, overall I think DaVinci Resolve is a great piece of software and I love the Blackmagic cameras. I just want to make the full switch over. But just my two cents, the multicam editing needs a ton of improvement.

Agreed. This is my main problem (taken from the feature request above):

"-If we are in multicam viewer mode, please leave it on there so we don't have to keep clicking it in order to see it in the preview pane. It is a HUGE waste of time and clicks to keep having to turn the multicam viewer on whenever we click to any other timeline."

Even with the shortcut I've assigned to activating Multicam mode (command > M), I have to click on the viewer ever time I switch between timelines and switch the mode again and again. So frustrating.

Adding to this:

ALLOW EDITOR TO SELECT & PATCH AUDIO TRACKS

This is how it's been done forever in FCP, Media Composer, and Premiere. When you have a multicam clip, you also can see how many audio channels it has and can turn them on or off or patch them to different tracks depending on which mics you want to use.

Even if I use mono dual-system audio and sync those files with my picture, when I create a multicam clip and load it into my source monitor, I still only see 1 track of audio. The only way to disable/mute mics that I don't want to hear or use is to open the multicam clip in a timeline, right click on the cameras with synced audio, choose "Clip Attributes," mute the mics I don't want to hear, return to my edit timeline, and make the edit.

This is untenable.

Auto-Sync clips AND MULTICAM CLIPS when loaded into the source monitor should display all the audio tracks and allow you to mute/solo and patch them to whatever tracks you want.

There are workarounds for this issue, but overall Multicam editing could be so much more powerful. As it stands I tend to ignore the audio tracks within a multicam clip and just sync the polywav mono recordings outside the clip in the timeline and pull out audio as needed. It's not ideal.

Let us customize the track order, which audio track is connected to what angle, and solo as needed. FCPX is probably the best in this regard still.

2025, Resolve's multicam editing is still convoluted trash. About to switch programs.

Another suggestion I have is to display the waveform in audio-only tracks in the multicam view.

I typically work with two cameras with scratch audio + one audio recorder hooked up to a boom mic. Seeing the big empty window that is my audio track is a huge waste of space on my screen, in my opinion, so using it to show a moving waveform of the audio track would be a perfect use for that space, and make cutting the audio a bit easier.

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What would be even better is if that window would extend to the whole length of the viewer, so that the quarter in the bottom right is also used (but that would really be the cherry on top ).