if you have clips mapped to those numbers) to click back and forth between those cameras. In addition to clicking on the different source clips, you can also use the number keys 1 and 2 (and 3, and 4, etc. Play the video in the preview window, and click, in real time, on the source clip you want to use at that moment, and EDIUS chooses that clip, also enabling you to preview your switches in real time as the video plays from the timeline. Using Multicam Mode is almost too simple to put into words (better to watch from about the 5:00 mark in the tutorial video to see it in action). The blue arrows at the top of the timeline indicate that EDIUS has automatically chosen Cam 1 for this part of the timeline because there's no footage from Cam 2 yet. So it's already set a point for me to see Cam 1 first, and leave it there until I'm ready to change it.įigure 9. Because there's only one camera in the first part of the timeline-the part between the two blue triangles, representing the time between when the now-synced Cam 1 and Cam 2 started rolling-EDIUS automatically knows that I want to use Cam 1 in this part of the video. But first, note the two blue triangles at the top of the Timeline window in Figure 9 (below). Now that we have our camera sources lined up, the multicamera edit becomes very simple to do.