Now I'm confused. I'm using DV tapes in my cameras, and have them in the Project Media Bin. How do I get them into the XDCam explorer window?

boy, you really are confused aren't you?

why do you want them in the xdcam window in the first place?

both tapes should be sync'd on two separate tracks on the tl, just as described in the manual....

Look under help - multicamera.

Basically you sync up your two cameras on the timeline, select the tracks involved and under Tools choose multicamera / create multicamera track.

Gradually getting there. I did tools - multicamera, but the create option is faded out. I did have the choice to "Edit multicamera" which I selected, and it now has the top camera track in the preview window with a green frame. However, there is no second window for the other camera. If I mute the top track, then the preview frame shows the lower track. The "Create Multicamera track" is still faded out ,
Note - The reason I was looking at XDCam is that was what was on page 151 of the manual which I had printed out (no chapters show, so there might be another manual version ??). Page 151 was suggested in the first reply to my problem.

Sounds as if you didn't select the second canera track before clicking Create multicamera.

Make sure you have both tracks highlighted when you go to the tools multicam edit. In otherwords go to your two tracks click on the header of the first one and with shift pressed down click on the other TL header and then go to tools multicam edit and they should both show up in the preview window.
Daryl

I'm there and it's working. THANK YOU ALL.. I also found the page in the manual that explains much of this - I had taken it to my bedroom to read a couple of nights ago, forgotton about it. Also the page 151 reference (first reply above) is correct for on-line adobe reading, but it's page 145 of the printed version - the adobe page count includes non pagenated prior to page one. That's what threw me off in my first quest .

One more thing (and prior responders also read my previous message). It seems to me I had read somewhere that when switching tracks in mulicamera, that automatic cross fade could be selected, but I haven't found how to do it. I know I can do it on each individual cut after the fact, but that will take a lot of time.

Please check my prior two messages. I have one more problem. When I'm selecting tracks on the fly, sometimes it will work at the point of the moving cursor, and sometimes it will instead switch the track at the time marker at the start of that particular play. How do I get it to consistently switch while playing the tracks? Note - I have not yet updtated to 9a because of the posted problem in that update.

Here's a trick I use with m/camera edits.

Get to the point before you start switching cameras, just like where you are now.

Set a marker (M key) at the very start - that'll be marker 1.

Now play the timeline and where you want to switch cameras, tap the M key and keep playing till the end. Odd marker numbers will be camera 1 and even markers camera 2.

Go back to beginning, click on M#2 and choose the other camera in the preview window, go the next marker and choose the first camera and so on to the end.

When you're done, play the timeline and then fine-tune the camera switches - hold Ctl+Alt while dragging left or right at the switch point.

HTH.
Tom