• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Multiclip Editing – Audio – Final Cut Pro

  Posted by Russell Parks on September 20, 2010 at 9:53 pm

  In FCP, I think I am missing something.

  I have been given a job that has five cameras with two lavs recorded on each camera in A1 & A2.

  Here is an example of what the director wants to be able to have. As the active clip from camera 1 is visible he wants the audio from from camera 3, or audio from camera 2 A2 & Cam4 A1. I have been able to edit the multiclips together and the video cuts to his liking but the audio portion eludes me. I know that I can edit video and audio separately but I am thinking that after the multiclip has been put together with video, I should be able to go back and redo the audio.

  Am I ahead of my time in this application? Out in left field? or do I need to go to Soundtrack Pro and create the solution there?

  Please help.

  Thanks a million.

  Russell Parks replied 15 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Stace Carter

  September 21, 2010 at 1:41 pm

  This is a little complicated – After you do the video edit, you’ll do another “multicam” edit but adjust your Viewer’s playhead sync popup from “Video” to Audio->All, and then switch away without regard to the video. You’ll notice now that when you’re switching angles during playback that the green box (audio) indicates your selected AUDIO source and the Blue box (video) will bounce to the active video angle as you had previously selected in your video edit pass. Having made that change in the Viewer’s playhead sync popup, you are, at this point, only switching the audio.

  This does raise the question of whether it’s the best method though – cutting audio like this can be somewhat heavy handed and introduce abrupt level changes and pops; I can’t imagine a scenario where you wouldn’t need to perform additional audio post on the show after making these cuts, so I’d advise you try a short segment in FCP, and compare that workflow with simply bringing all of your audio, along with the finished video edit, in to STP and see how quickly (play with automation) you can make the edits in audio land.

  Cheers,
  Stace

  Apple Certified Trainer
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  Russell Parks

  September 21, 2010 at 5:02 pm

  Thank you Stace,

  I sat down and went over this many times in my mind last night and I did play around with doing the audio only edits. The problems of drastic level changes did appear.

  My director wants audio changes per track so the multi edit in FCP will not be the best solution. STP here I come. I made that decision last night to follow that course. Thank you for you post, it validated my course of action.

  Thanks a Billion,

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