Multicam

A take shot with two or three cameras arrives as two or three clips. o/DAILIES recognizes them as one take: the grid shows the take once, and opening it plays every angle at the same time, in sync.

Nothing has to be enabled for this. It is on for every project and every viewer, on desktop, web, tablet and phone. If you would rather see every camera's clip on its own, you can turn Multicam off.

When clips are treated as one take

Clips are grouped into a take when all of the following are true:

1. They are in a date bin or a scene bin. Shared bins, reel views and tag views are never grouped: they collect clips that have nothing to do with each other in time.
2. Their slate matches. Scene, shot and take must be identical across the clips. (In a scene bin the scene already matches by definition, so shot and take decide.)
3. Their timecode overlaps by at least 10 seconds. Each clip's start timecode plus its duration has to cover at least ten seconds of the same wall clock as the other's.

Clips are never grouped when the scene is empty, or when the timecode is missing or is 00:00:00:00. Stills are never grouped either.

What this needs from your metadata

Scene, shot, take and a real start timecode. That is exactly what the Silverstack link and ALE import deliver, so on a normally prepared project multicam needs no extra work. If cameras are not grouping, check that the slate fields agree between the cameras (a trailing space or a different take format is enough to break a match).

In the grid

A grouped take takes up one card, showing the first of its angles in the current sort order. The camera letters in the corner of the card name every angle it stands for, so nothing looks like it went missing from the bin. Once a bin holds more than one camera, every card names its own camera, including the single-camera ones.

Opening the card opens that take. Paging left and right moves take by take, not camera by camera.

In the player

Every angle of the take is shown at once, arranged to give the largest possible picture for the window. The angles are lined up on their start timecode, and there is one set of controls for the whole take: play, pause, scrub, step, speech-block navigation and shortcuts drive all of them together, and they stay in step while they play.

Each tile names its camera in the top left corner when you move the pointer over it.

Showing one camera on its own

Use the filter menu filter_alt in the bin toolbar and uncheck the cameras you do not want. The grid and the player both follow the filter: with a single camera left, the bin lists that camera's clips one by one and the player shows that one angle, full size. "Show all" brings the others back.

Turning Multicam off

In a date bin or a scene bin, the sort menu sort in the bin toolbar has a Multicam checkbox under Group. Uncheck it and every camera's clip gets a card of its own in the grid, and opening a clip plays that one angle. Check it again to bring the takes back.

Your choice is remembered per project on this device, so turning Multicam off on one show leaves it on for the others. It changes how the clips are arranged, not which ones you see: the filter's "Show all" leaves it as it is, and the filter icon does not change.

Metadata per camera

The angles of a take rarely share a lens, a filter or a stop. The Metadata section below the player therefore shows one chip per camera on the take; pick a camera to read that camera's metadata. It opens on the angle you opened the take with.

Comments are not split per camera: the notes you read and write belong to the clip the take opened with, so a take has one conversation rather than one per angle.