Multicam switcher gives strange icon

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Multicam switcher gives strange icon

PostSat Jun 07, 2025 9:46 am

What does the icon below do? Once in a while during my multicam cutting the razorblade icon changes into this and I don't know how to get back to the razorblade. I now switch to a non-multicam mode and back to multicam to fix it, but there must be a better way.
I'm on a Mac, but it happened in Windows as well.
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Re: Multicam switcher gives strange icon

PostSat Jun 07, 2025 10:04 am

It means "switch angle of current clip" instead of cut to an angle at playhead.
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Re: Multicam switcher gives strange icon

PostSat Jun 07, 2025 1:07 pm

Thanks Peter, that makes sense, but how do I return to the Cut tool in Multicam mode?
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Re: Multicam switcher gives strange icon

PostSat Jun 07, 2025 11:19 pm

lacobo wrote:Thanks Peter, that makes sense, but how do I return to the Cut tool in Multicam mode?


I don't know, but it is in the user manual section on Multicam editing.
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Re: Multicam switcher gives strange icon

PostSun Jun 08, 2025 8:13 am

It's not in the manual :( Anyone?
I don't know how and when the cutter changes to the changer, but it's annoying.
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Re: Multicam switcher gives strange icon

PostSun Jun 08, 2025 11:05 am

All I could find is that this mode occurs when holding the option key. I didn’t think it could take on a permanent state. Weird.
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Re: Multicam switcher gives strange icon

PostSun Jun 08, 2025 3:10 pm

Strange indeed. If it's the cutter I can change it to the switcher by holding the ALT/OPT key (that's not even unhandy :D ), but when it is spontaneously changed to the switcher I can't undo this without switching to for instance the source and back to get the cutter again.
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Re: Multicam switcher gives strange icon

PostTue Jun 10, 2025 1:36 am

OK. I found the issue.

That icon appears when the Multicam clip is loaded into the Source viewer from the Media Pool. This is standard and is expected behaviour.
The regular "cut and switch" icon appears when Multicam is selected in the Source viewer dropdown, bottom left of the viewer.

If you select "Source" from the dropdown after using Multicam, it loads the Media Pool version of the Multicam clip into the Source viewer so all angles can be viewed on a Decklink connected monitor. Then this icon appears, which is correct behaviour.
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Re: Multicam switcher gives strange icon

PostWed Jun 11, 2025 5:57 am

But I don't leave the multicam view when it happens. And when it happens I switch to another mode (for example the source viewer) and immediately return to the multicam view to get the cutter back. It happens a few times per hour and it gets to my nerves.
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Re: Multicam switcher gives strange icon

PostWed Jun 11, 2025 10:31 pm

Without seeing what you are doing when it happens, it's hard to know what could cause it.
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