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Multilip creation in FCP
I am working with documentary footage that was shot on three XD-Cams with matching timecode. Creating a multiclip from each day’s shooting should be a piece of cake but, since the shooters were starting and stopping their records (breaking tc), I’m finding it very difficult. Is there any way to achieve multiclip with such footage?
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Cameras starting and stopping is not a good thing when you want to multiclip. That would be a problem no matter what NLE you used. GOtta keep that camera running all the time if you want long continuous clips.
Only options now are to do it manually by stacking on the timeline, or having another application do that for you. Google PLURALEYES.
Shane
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Thanks for the response. You are basically confirming what I was suspecting; that there is no easy way to accomplish multiclipping when the footage is shot in this way. I just want to be able to explain this confidently to the producer/director who hired me. I’ve worked with him in the past and he shot the same way, hoping to multiclip. I could see no way to accomplish it so I just limped my way through the footage. Pluraleyes might be a decent band-aid, but now I can present a very polite argument to him to make an adjustment in the way he shoots in future!
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if you have one clip that spans the whole time, then you can manually sync everything else to in it layers, using slugs to comensate for the camera stops, then export each track from start to finish as a reference file. Once done you should be able to turn all those layers into a multiclip that start at the same place.
Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal
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Just looking back, I realized I never responded to this. Thank you for your help, Neil!
Trevor Aikman
Editor
CBC Saskatchewan
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