On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 08:09:37 -0400, "Dan Volker" wrote:

>After about 5 months of using Premeire 6 for editing, using most of the
>novice level tools and techniques, I would like to learn more about how to
>"benefit" from, and to use, the multi video track approach I have seen in
>various video books. While I've seen frame shots of this, I've never seen it
>written up with any form of explanation sufficient to make this an editing
>technique I understand well enough to use well.
>
>I assume the idea is to use this for multiple takes, so you can pick the
>best one. I also understand the the track on top is the one you see, the
>ones below won't show through the one on top, unless you select the track
>you want to view. You want to compare back and forth between the top track
>and individual VIDEO TRACKS to determine the best clip, and the best portion
>of each clip to use... I know how to view from clip to clip---track to
>track, but I need some form of creative strategy and flow to use to make
>this type of editing useful. Does anyone have a strategy article on this, or
>be willing to offer some form of gameplan for this type of aproach?

Seems if you know how to do all the above, what else is
there...? ;-) Just start, and edit...;-) It becomes clear
soon what your particular needs and procedures will be.
I do 4-camera edits often in Premiere (and sometimes
multi-take edits) - I choose what I want to use (I sometimes
reserve a bit of the unused clips hidden under other tracks
or on one "blind" video track, so if I change my mind later,
it is easy to "pull out" a clip to restore it [and it is still
synched with the other material]), and use cuts or
the "rubber bands" for "shaped" dissolves (or drop bits
down to V1 for other transitions) to edit, deleting
material I'm sure I don't want. BTW, when editing together
multi-camera clips when all is "real-time", without time
edits, I first edit and mix the sound and export/import it
as a single file so I don't need to worry about what happens
to the sound associated with the individual clips. I then
silence or remove the sound tracks from the clips.