Thanks, Adrian!
Your video gave me an idea to work around my problem. It's a little tedious, but it works for me: I made four copies of a multicam project which had four audios that overlapped somewhat, but none could be a master to cover the whole length of the combined video. I placed them on four tracks in the same timeframe.
Then I trimmed the audios of some of them on the other tracks so that I had continuous audio throughtout the total multicam, using the best of each audio as I trimmed. I then moved all the trimmed audio tracks to the first track, for continuous audio throughout the resulting video, and removed all the other left over tracks. The end result was continuous audio. I had to use normalization to improve the whole audio track. I even used some audio transistions to smooth out some of the abrupt switching from one audio to another. It's not 100%, but it works for me for the time being.
Thanks again for your inspiration. I sure hope CL adds some option like this because it is a huge deficiency.
Now what I need is to figure out how to fine-tune the Trim feature where automatically detects scene changes, but it overlooked some scene changes. I need to split some of the scenes it did not do well. And those split scenes must be importable to Multicam - I have not found a convenient way to do this, except for "Produce a range" option which places it in the library for Multicam to import.
My other video source, from a friend, provided a continuous video of all the clips on a disk. (In the future, I'll have to insist on separate video clips!)
Without 100% accurate scene selection before importing to Multicam, the audio analysis will not work. One clip with two very simialar scenes but with two audios in separate timeframes is a problem: Multicam will not recognize that audio and fail, despite both audios are in the other video clips. Audio analysis kept failing until I separated the problem clip properly into two clips. Then it worked beautifully!
Otherwise, this feature is awsome! Thanks, CL!
Bill
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