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Multicam audio
Scenario – 2 cameras with on-board audio + synced 4-channel broadcast wave audio recorder. Create multicam clip synced by TC and assign audio angle as the audio track. Only the wave files are the real audio (4 different mics). Edit the multicam clip to a new project (timeline). Cut cameras (video only) in the sequence. Unfortunately there is no way to access the individual audio tracks in the edited timeline. Cannot break apart and the Inspector ID’s audio as “unsupported clip”. Thoughts?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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5 Replies
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Busted.
Can’t expand. Can’t detach. Can’t break apart.
After initial sync, add audio as connected clip and break apart as four tracks (or not).
Turn off audio in angles.
Have to snip out appropriate audio chunks if changing length of program.
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The only way I have found so far to get to those iso tracks is to open the multicam clip in the Angle Editor. There you can enable or disable individual audio tracks. You can further open the main audio track using the Open in timeline command, but the bad news is that after that you don’t have any visual guide to edit with.
Apple Certified Associate, FCP X
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Seems like the lack of “break apart” is a bug. Unfortunately it still gets back to the difficulty in actually editing audio tracks in FCP X. By this I mean multiple tracks from a common source, where each track is a different isolated source, like different mics. Even when “break apart” works, there’s still nothing to prevent or warn you about out-of-sync issues. Oh well, it’s a nice mcam editor for video 😉
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
I agree. While this is a very welcome update, the fit and finish in the audio department still needs some work.
Jeremy
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I was able to open my multi-cam clip in the Angle Editor. Disable each of my three audio tracks but my multi-cam clip still had sound as it did before. Can you help me identify a step that I may have missed?
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