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Multi – Cam
Has anyone produced a primer on Multi Cam?
We just cannot get this thing to work. We can kind of get it to work but we can’t get the sources to play in real time while we select angles.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut Pro systems
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The 2 most important secrets to know about multi-cam:
1- After you edit your multiclip into the timeline, set the ganging to “Open” and select the viewer. That will play the multi camera layout out over your broadcast monitor.
2- Everyone seems to get confused about the difference between “switch” an “cut”. Switch will simply switch the active angle without making any edit in the timeline, so your active angle will change from wherever your last edit point was. Cut will make the cut & switch it.
What kind of material are you trying to multicam with? How fast are your drives? They need to fast enoug to play all the angles at once.
Arnie
Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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repeat post. trying to delete. can’t do it
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repeat post. computer malfunction, trying to delete, can’t do it.
Dan
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Arnie is right…. what are you playing back in your multiclip?
Great multicam, 4 to 9 angles, can be done with DV.
I can do 4 angle of DVCPRO50 too. But if you go up from there
you are asking for playback troubles. You need a fast RAID
and a recent CPU to do codecs higher than DV, in my experience.FCP’s Multicam implementation is actually pretty good compared to AVID.
It’s much easier to make multiclips with FCP. But using it
is not the same as AVID if that’s what you are used to.Double click your multiclip into the viewer. Then edit that into
your timeline. Then set ganging to “open” and play the timeline.
You’ll now have all angles playing in real time. Mouse click the angle
you want in the viewer as it’s playing. Stop playback and you’ll see
the edits done in your timeline. Then edit down from there.
It works quite well.Dan
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[Arniepix] “After you edit your multiclip into the timeline”
I think is the part that we can get going.
[Arniepix] “How fast are your drives?”
This is an Intel tower with 2 TB internal and 7Tb X-Serve Raid. I don’t think the computer is holding us back. It’s our inability to decipher the ridiculous FCP manual.
We used to use Discreet Edit and it was very simple. FCP requires quite a process. The instructions are about 10 pages long. By the time I get to the end, I forgot what the first part was.Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut Pro systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck -
We’ll give it a shot in the morning. Big thanks.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut Pro systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck -
When I was first trying out multicam, this link was helpful:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/multicam_editing_martin.html
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Steve –
The FCP multi-cam work flow is actually better and more efficient than the *edit system, although their are some drawbacks. The 2 most important pieces of advice I can give you is to make sure that in the “viewer” window the “sync open” option is checked, and then use the supplied “multi camera editing” keyboard layout you can find in TOOLS / KEYBOARD LAYOUT. Since I use the multi-cam 95% of the time I’ve made my own modified keyboard layout so that I never have to use the mouse for multi-cam editing. As an old *editor I’d be glad to answer any specific problems you or your staff are having if you want to contact me.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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