How to get multiple camera angles from one take in Flow

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Guide title

How to get multiple camera angles from one take in Flow

Coverage

For people who shot one phone take of a performance and want to try several camera angles of it in Google Flow, then cut between them. Google announced the Pocket Studio tool for this on the day of reading and describes only its purpose, so this guide stays away from its controls. What it adds is a set of checks that run on your computer: the take against the limits Flow's help states, a rough steadiness figure, each finished angle against the take (same length and shape, similar brightness and colour), and a plan for where to set the trim handles in the scene editor. Honest limit: Flow itself was not run, and the checks were tried only on drawn stand-in clips.

Example

On stand-in clips, a window that drifted by about one percent of the width per second was flagged, while one drifting at under half a percent was missed. A thirty-five-second take was told it must be trimmed, a mkv file was refused, and a five-second copy of an eight-second take was reported as the wrong length. A three-angle plan for the eight seconds gave cuts at two and two-thirds seconds and at five and one-third.

Useful starting points

• Ask for one angle per run and write down the words you used.
• Treat a brightness or colour flag as a reason to look, not as a verdict.
• Keep every angle exactly as long as the take so the cut stays in step with the performance.