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FCP X Multiclip Dual Mono Audio Channels – HOW?
Hi all.
I have no luck to access Dual Mono audio camera tracks with multiclip in the timeline. Can anyone check this for me?
With simple clip – you usually “Break Apart Clip Items” and end up with two green separate audio attached to your video. Then you can manipulate them separately with volume ajustments and effects and all.
I have no idea how to do somtehing similar with Multiclip – all audio controls except “Expand audio/video” are greyed…
Do I miss something?
Tomas.
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10 Replies
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In angle editor select the clip a use “open in timeline” menu command.
Apple Certified Associate, FCP X
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I ment: In angle editor select the clip and use “open in timeline” (contextual)menu command.
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Yes, thanks. I knew this way and checked it before posting.
I have in mind – how to access dual mono on the storyline – if you please – after you did the angle cut?
Well, simple scenario – two cams. Walking outside. Two peole having a conversation. Each has a radio microphone pinned up. Sound is recorded respectively to one camera’s audio track one and track two.
I cut muticam using one camera’s sound track. Now I want to refine audio, clean some bumps and sounds from one or another mono chanel…. Cant find how…
It’s allready edited. Multicam. On Storyline. I can not find how to detach/separate dual mono tracks on the storyline from multiclip.
Apple Certified Trainer, FCP 7, FCP X.
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I see what you mean, but you can dig in to audio and edit the tracks separately (blade and slip trim the bumps) even if the multicam clip is in the storyline by using the angle editor plus the timeline. You just see the whole clip and not the edits you made. It’s a dirty workaround I know…but should work with simple dialog scenes where the action is “real time”.
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Shure this is valid workaround. And dirty. Yak… 🙂
It doesn’t matters on some occasional edit. But on the regular TV project it’s gonna make me go mad…
I was so eager to switch the edit to FCP X.
It looks like I’m gonna stick with 7 for some time more. Again.Feedback form is only our hope now… :)))
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Hi Tomas – did you find a solution? We have same issue and are thinking we will complete the edit, then export to QT and either open the exports in FCP 7 to make the audio dual mono there, or do it in our transcode (to Mpeg 2 for DVD in our case)
Mark Slocombe
https://www.creationvideo.com
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It was my firs idea too, but in my case I found the workaround.
You see, I have the mono channels sound recorded on one cam. My workflow is as follows:
1. I create multiclip. In my case only two cameras mostly non stop recording. Timecode of Multicam clip is the same as CAM A, on which is the dual mono audio recorded.
2. I put the multicam clip into empty Compound with the same starting Time Code. Silence the audio on multicam clip with level slider.
3. I put the CAM A clip into the same Compound as attached clip. If I follow the same TC routine, audio sync on Multiclip and newly added CAM A clip should be OK.
4. I select CAM A clip audio channels to be Dual Mono and Break Apart Clip Items. Now I have Attached video and dual mono channels. Delete the CAM A video.
5. Now we have a compound with Multiclip Video and attached dual mono audio tracks.
6. Edit the dialog with Compound clip for the first pass.
7. On the edited timeline Break Apart Clip Items of the Compound. You get the edited timeline with multicam video and attached dual audio channels.
8. For the second pass you edit clip angles and dual mono audio clip levels and filters.
BTW. You can color balance multicam clip video angles before editing or after editing, but you can spare a lots of clicks if you put some general audio filters inside Compound on audio tracks before editing.
I hope I was clear enough to understand and it helps. Until Apple fixes the audio workflow issues. I red somewhere it is to be addressed later this year.
Do not hesitate to ask if something still not clear.
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Option clip on audio clip then select open in time line. 🙂
Peter Wilcox
Beachwood Productions -
My workaround is to add the audio tracks as seperate angles inside the multicam.
Then on the main timeline you can Expand Audio Components and edit them individually. -
This has had me incredibly frustrated on several occasions …but I think I just stumbled upon the solution…
Find the Multicam clip you have created, click on it and look in the audio inspector window. Scrolling down in the inspector reveals the Audio configuration setup and you can select the tracks you want for each angle – providing you originally defined your individual angles as dual mono …I think.
It took me hours…. and all I had to do was scroll down erghhh!!!
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