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multiple clips
Hi, working for green eye monster post-production in berlin and we had following problem:
with multiple clips we had 4 cameras timcode locked and there was no problem joining these
together to a multiclip with timecode option, but however we had two more cameras with
no matching timecode but with flashes to sync to the others, how can one add these clip to
the timecode multiclips? Anyone any idea? -
7 Replies
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Use auxiliary timecode. It’s in the manual and it’s easy, it’s just not very clear.
Or just put them on separate tracks and edit the old fashioned way.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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If you have a flash on all six cameras set the in point and sync by in point.
I would never want to do back to the old way, multicam is worth its weight in gold, but how much does a software feature actually weigh??????????
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Hi there Green Eyed Monster
1. Make a multiclip from your timecoded clips however many there are.
2. Mark in points on your clips with flashes.
3. Find the flash on the multiclip you created in step 1 and mark an in point on this multiclip at the flash.
4. Make ANOTHER multiclip from the first MC and the flashed clips, this time using in points.
The non-obvious part of this workflow is that you can actually make a multiclip from another multiclip.
Alex Snelling
Slack Alice Films
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thanks for the advice, but this brings up a further problem that for each camera i have about 4 tapes and bringing those together by in point into one multiclip seems to be a big problem for final cut.
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hey thanks for that advice, i will try this out sounds like a good solution, hope that I don
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If you have four tapes per camera then you cannot possibly want to sync them all together with one in-point unless they contain different takes of the same thing? In that case you need to break them up and use a unique angle number for each separate take.
If you want to sync multiple clips from the same camera and they have time of day T/C (eg a reality TV scenario), you should use the Multiclip Sequence function. That is an evening’s reading of the FCP manual and some messing around.
Good luckAlex Snelling
Slack Alice Films
http://www.slackalicefilms.co.uk -
thanks for that advice looking foward to mess around with the manual : )
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