Just for purposes of comparison, let’s examine how we would have to edit without the benefit of Group Clips. Let’s use our previous example of a sit-down interview with one Interviewer and two people being interviewed:
Camera A: Interviewer
Camera B: Interview Subject 1
Camera C: Interview Subject 2
Camera D: Roams between a two-Shot of the Interview Subjects and a Wide-Shot that includes both the Interviewer and the Subjects
Without the ability to create Group Clips, you would have at least four video tracks; and you’d have at least two audio tracks (presuming the interviewer was recorded on one audio channel, while both subjects were recorded together on a different channel). Likely you’d have at least three audio tracks in this situation (each person recorded on a different audio channel), and possibly a fourth that was recorded with all the cameras’ audio channels mixed into one (as a safety/reference). In the Sequence, the video would be stacked onto different tracks and placed in sync with each other. You might configure the stacked clips like this (depending on your own preferences):
V1: Camera A
V2: Camera B
V3: Camera C
V4: Camera D
While editing like this is not impossible (there are a couple of different methods you might use, though I won’t bother you with detailing them), it is a great deal slower and more cumbersome than using Group Clips, whether you’re using MultiCamera Mode or not.