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Multiclip; can someone explain the relationship between Browser & Sequence versions?
I seem to be missing some underlying concept on how the same multiclip, in the Browser & cut into a Sequence, relate to each other. Seems if you change sync in a multiclip from the Browser in the Viewer that the sync does not change in that same multiclip already edited in a sequence. So is it that the multiclip in a sequence doesn’t reference it’s master any more?? So confusing.
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That’s right. There is no real relationship a Browser clip and a sequence clip, other than it references the same media files. When you put any kind of clip from the browser to the timeline window, FCP creates a new reference clip – A Sequence clip. It keeps the editing non destructive that way. All clips will show this same behavior whether or not they are multicliips.
Jerry
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Thanks Jerry! I guess I was expecting slightly different relationships, due to some of the explanations both in the manual & in the Pro Training materials. But your comment does make sense.
Only real problem (workflow related) I’m having is with audio; when I create a music video style multiclip (multiple takes, non-sync TC, performance playback audio recorded w/ video, and a AIFF song file) as soon as I edit it onto the timeline I lose the audio in the Sequence-multiclip as it plays in the Viewer. No problem in the timeline. But if I want to switch playback to the Viewer, there’s no audio. Maybe I just need to say “that’s the way it is, deal with it, always play multiclip ganged from the timeline” ?BTW, as I was wishing for a TC-DAT field playback of the music during shoot, with a timecode LED slate slaved to it, I had an idea… record your music track with burn-in timecode (fullscreen) as the video. Toss this into a portable DVD player, and use that audio as your music playback. Flash the DVD screen into camera frame at start of each shot, & you’ve got a timecode visual reference for $0.
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When you switch back to the viewer try setting the playhead sync pop-up menu back to video and audio.
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No good – even if I select video + audio in the sync menu, and then select the audio clip, there’s no audio. Can’t get audio from any of the performance clips either! And I’ve made sure play head is within the limits of the audio clip. This is the bit I just don’t understand. ONLY thing I can speculate is that it falls apart when working with a non-timecoded audio file?
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What a fantastic idea Bob……..simple, but effective!!!!
Now where did I put that portable DVD player…….?All the best
Dave
Good Robot Productions UK
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