I have never done a multicam editing session on the Avid yet. And I was wondering if any one cant point me the right directon. I have all my clips grouped. I then load the clips in to the source monitor and click the quach screen button. Where I see my clips play. and are sync up .

But How do I start editing? How do I get those clips playing and me editign at the same time? or whats the workflow here?

Thank you all very much!

 I did my first last week and made a post called "Multicam 101", go look for that and you'll find out how it's done. There's several more on advanced topics relating to Multicam. It's really easy, but man, finding out from the Avid help file is impossible. Good luck.

Thanks for the quick reply, I did a search for Multicam 101 but nothing realy came up. The forum never went into talking about how to start editing any other ideas?

 Once you follow those instructions from Avidpurple on getting a clip group into your source viewer you record the clip group into the sequence. Map each camera to your F2 thru F10 keys. Then place your playback head on the in point for the camera you want and select the camera view  via mouse, it will underline with a green line, or with the F key. BTW: On my Adrenaline I can't see all cameras at once during playback and I'm trying to figure out why. But thats the gist of it. There's lots of posts about it on this forum and once you figure out how to get the clip group into the source viewer the MC help file makes sense.

 http://community.avid.com/forums/p/60105/336757.aspx#336757

PS: In my case all our cameras time code is jam synced, so when I select lock by time code they all lock up beautifully. If you're not working with jam sync time code it could be tricky lining your cameras up, but look at other posts on this forum about how to do that. Good luck.

Actually syncing isn't as tricky as it looks at first glance. Of course, if you have matching timecodes, there's not much to say anyway. But even if you have to work with, say, DV cams, there are several methodes to get the clips sync'd.

The main problem is how to find the same point in time in all clips and put your IN marker there, so you can use the IN marker as a guide when you create the group clip. Of course you can use a clap, flashlight etc. to mark that point, but what if your cams don't look at the same point? I prefer to use audio from the cameras build in microphones for the synchronising, and then matchframe to set the IN markers. How is it done?

First you dop all clips you want to group onto a timeline, create new video/audio tracks for each, layer the clips vertically. Set the timeline to show the audio waveforms. Move the clips forward or back in time until the waveforms match (or almost match), look for unique "mountains" to easy that step, or if you have spoken word, just listen and mark the same word. Zoom in at a very sharp "edge" in the waveforms, e.g. where the audience starts clapping, and refine the matching. Solo two audio tracks and listen carefully, you'll notice echos if your clips are not perfectly sync'd yet. Refine the matching again until there's no audible echo left, and do the same with the other tracks as well. This may sound hard work, but actually it isn't, it can be done in a couple of minutes if you get the hang of it.

Now you have all clips synchronised and layered, but for multicam editing you still have to group them. If you don't have it, patch the "match frame" button from command palette to the timeline window. Move your indicator to a timecode where all clips overlap (and make sure you don't move it during the next steps!). Solo a video track and press the match frame button: this will show the clip in source monitor, move the indicator to that exact frame and put the IN marker there. Then - without moving the indicator - repeat the solo-matchfram-combination with each video-track. You'll end up with all clips having IN markers set to the same point in time.

Finally: select all these clips in your bin and group them, using IN marker as reference point.

After that you simply drag the newly created group clip to the source monitor, and edit it (or parts) to your sequence. Switch to Multicam-Mode, play the sequence, and whenever you want to switch the camera just hit the key you assigned it to. Note: the cuts you are making won't be visible on timeline until you stop playing.

Btw:

A "general" overview on multicam editing can be found here: http://www.avid.com/video/Composer/index.asp?currVideo=4