Multicam Audio Problem

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amcmedia

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Multicam Audio Problem

PostThu May 22, 2025 7:48 pm

Hi!

I setup a Multicam with 2 Camera Angles and 3 additional Audio Tracks. I edited everything with the camera sound from Angle 1. Now, when I want to edit the audio from the three additional Audio Tracks (Angle 3,4,5) and therefore unlinked video & audio and switched the MC Angle of the audio track to Angle 3,4 or 5 in the editing timeline, I can't see any waveform and can't hear any sound. If I flatten it, the clip just vanished as if there was no soundfile on the track. But within the Multicam (opened in timeline) everything is fine. I see the audio clips and hear the sound.

Is my Multicam broken somehow?

If I copy the content of my Multicam to another Timeline and convert this Timeline into a new Multicam and put this into my editing Timeline, it seems to work. Is there any way to swap Multicam-Linking in my edit?

So many days of work already in the edit. :shock:

One of the cameras has 4 channels of audio. So one fix I though of is to put my three audio files into this audiotrack (adaptive: 4). But somehow I can just put an audiofile into the first channel. Channel 2-4 seem immune to putting audio files in?

Thanks for your help!
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Re: Multicam Audio Problem

PostThu May 22, 2025 9:10 pm

Here's the approach I recommend.

1. Create the Multicam using only camera media.
2. Add the Multicam to a timeline.
3. Add whatever audio you want to hear under the Multicam and sync it up.
4. Disable the Audio track of the Multicam.
5. Edit away... :)

The idea is to keep usable audio out of the Multicam. It just makes mixing in Fairlight down the line much easier.
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