Stefan wrote:
Recently I found a very nice introduction on linear editing for multi-cam. I finally understood how it should work in Cinelerra GG. But it is not intuitive, I would like to propose two things that could make multi-cam editing much more user friendly.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOMKP4Jgzw8>
1. As you can see from the video, multi-cam works by clicking on a Mixer. Completely counter intuitive towards anyone that works with a switcher (atem and likes) it adds video from the undecided point up to the current position when clicked on the mixer. This would be a feature request that I wonder why nobody asked for this: implement this in the opposite way. You click on a mixer A, then the timeline gets filled with that mixer (visible, or underwater). If you click on mixer B, the timeline is computed with the part 0 to timeline current position with Mixer A, and having Mixer B as start position.
I understand You, Stefan. Other NLE use a different workflow (see Adobe Premiere, Lightworks). When MultiCamera was born, Cinelerra-GG didn't have Align Mixer Feature and OpenMixers. You can see an old demo where You can understand how it works by "hand": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49EExsRsjlY And, I think, once You understand how it works it's not too bad. IgorBeg