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  Multi camera shoot sony z1

  Posted by John Watts on March 30, 2008 at 10:53 am

  Hi all

  I have been asked to edit together a multi cam shoot.

  Firstly does anyone have any advice for the shoot itself which will save me time in the edit? eg. can a master TC generator be used for the Z1? also should the TC be set to free run?

  Secondly, i have never edited using multiclips before, are there any handy hints i should know to make this process smoother?

  Thanks i advance for all of your help!

  J

  Russell Lasson replied 18 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Russell Lasson

  March 31, 2008 at 7:37 pm

  As far as how you shoot it, there are a couple of options:

  1. Free run can be nice, but is a pain to digitize. Also depending on how you set it up, it won’t be frame accurate between each camera.
  2. Use a slate for marking the sync point. If a camera stops recording, then you should resync it. If you use a timecode slate, this can be used to add an aux timecode to each clip. If you go this way, log the tape by clips before you digitize instead of just digitizing the whole tape.

  Also, don’t adjust the main timecode on the files. If you do, you lose your reference to the timecode on the tape.

  It sound like you’re on the right track. I would strongly suggest running some tests with 2 cameras before the shoot just to make sure you know what you’re doing.

  -Russ

  Russell Lasson
  Kaleidoscope Pictures
  Provo, UT

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