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Multiclip Synchronizing Using Time of Day?
I seam to remember at a prerelease demo of FCP 5 that the dude from Apple said you can sync video in Multicam, using “Time Of Day” I can’t seam to find anything about this in the stack of User Manuals. Can any one help?
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Multiclips can be synced using timecode. SMTP timecode is formated like a daily clock. Hours:Minutes:Seconds:Frames, and it resets at 24 hours. That’s probably what they meant.
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Thanks but I’m aware that you can sync by time code. But I know that the said time of day not time code. I figure this would be really cool when shooting with multi camera’s. It would be way better then synchronizing with time code, because as soon as you pause or stop one camera the time codes out of sync to one anther, on less you somehow can stop and start all your camera’s at once. If you can sync by time of day, it wouldn’t matter when you stop/start your camera’s. I know that DV tape stores time of day data on the tape. I’m guessing it has something to do with the Aux Timecode 1 or 2 in multiclip settings but they are gray. Maybe it’s a capture setting that preserves that time of day data when capturing. I guess I’ll have to make it to the next FCP user’s group meeting and get in the line to ask the FCP guru’s
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They are talking about time code. The standard method is to set one record deck as the master, set to time of day, and then slave the rest off that one. That is the way I do it in 99% of all corporate live shows. Every now and then you’ll get a producer who wants tape 1 starting at 1hour, tape 2 at 2 hour, etc etc.
-mark
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Thanks Sean and Mark,
Well I think it’s a waist of tape data, if you can’t us it. I think it would save so much time shooting a live event if you could edit basted on the time of day. Well, I’ll send the request in to Apple.Leon
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How are you going to have the edit system know what the time of day is without time code? You can’t. Time code is how professionals sync things. The only other way is by manually doing it with a clapper and/or syncing by audio cues.
-mark
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