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Help with Workflow
I am new to Final Cut Pro. This will be my first job to edit on FCP and I need help with the workflow.
I hired a crew to shoot this time and they understand FCP, so they recorded in this way:
Camera A w/ clean audio
Camera B w/ on camera rough audioI thought that they had kept the clean audio in the same camera everytime, but they did not. They switched the “audio” halfway through the shoot to the B camera. I’ve digitized all of the clips and I now have 70 or so clips. I need/want to merge all of the clips with the clean audio, it was all slated. I am not sure how to do this. I am thinking of this workflow:
Capture VIDEO ONLY of Cam A & Cam B
Capture AUDIO ONLY of Cam A & Cam BThen, I would synch (using hte merge command) all of the video back to the cleanest audio. So, the clips on Cam A and Cam B would all share the same audio. Is this the best way to do it?
I also thought of possibly doing a multiclip, but the clips are so short that i don’t think the multiclip concept is very important.
I just want to have every VIDEO shot with the clean audio. I originally captured all of the video/audio together, but I couldn’t figure out how then seperate out the audio by itself (or video for that matter). The MERGE clip was grayed out, I assume because the video is already associated with the audio. Is the MERGE CLIP the best way to do the synching? I would just mark the in point on the slate and merge the audio and video?
thanks
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There is no reason to digitize everything twice.
Just Unlink the audio tracks – Apple+L – and you will be able to to move the audio and video independantly of each other. A simple Apple+L will join the new clips back together on the timeline so that they behave as if they were digitised that way.
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I understand, but perhaps I was not explaining this correctly. If I unlink the vidoe, doesn’t that only unlink IN THE TIMELINE? I want to be able to click on the video and set an in point for slates on both video and audio and create a NEW clip with the clean audio. I was hoping I would not have to do this all inside of the timeline, it seems like a strange way to go.
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Create the clip you want in a sequence, as per advice above.
Select all.
Modify > Link
Drag all from the time line to the browser.
Name the result appropriately. It will function just like a clip.
Regards,
Tom
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Okay. That makes sense. I guess I am just so used to using the Avid that I kept thinking that it could be done in the viewer window, but this is actually much more visual and pretty easy to do also. Since i will be setting the IN points I cna just drop them on the timeline and then pull the clip back. Is there any other sort of shortcut keys that I could use on this? Can I hit a key to drop the clips and then hit another to bring it back.
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To move a selection from the time line to the browser:
Command A to select all in the time line.
Command C to copy.
Command 4 to make the Browser active. (For future reference: Command 3 is the time line, Command 1 in the Viewer, and Commnd 2 is the Canvas.)
Command V to paste.
Enter key (or, on a laptop, Fn Return) to rename the clip.
Type the new name.
Return to accept the new name.
To edit from Browser to Timeline:
Use arrow and letter combinations to navigate to your first clip in the browser.
Hit the return key to open it in the Viewer.
Navigate with the J K L keys in the Viewer.
Use I and O to set in and out points if necessary.
Hit F10 to do and overwrite edit to the time line.
SIDE NOTE (if you are on a laptop, you may want to open the application System Preferences, select Keyboard and Mouse, click the Keyboard button, and then place a check next to Use F1-F12 keys to control Software. There after, use the Fn key as a prefix to the F button to access the hardware control functions built into the laptops F keys. If you choose not to do this, add the Fn key to all F key command before invoking them in Final Cut Pro.)
Hold F6 and press zero to disengage the V1 source from the V1 destination. (F7 does this for audio.)
Command 4 to select the Browser.
Use arrow keys, letters and the Return key as above to load the clip you want you audio from into the Viewer.
Set ins and outs with JKL and I and O.
Command 3 to activate the time line.
Home key to take the play head to the begining.
F10 to overwrite the audio only to the time line.
Then, as above…
Command A to select alll.
Command C to copy.
Command 4 to make the browser active.
Command V to paste.
ETC…
Extra credit:
Option H will open the Keyboard layout. Play here and you will learn lots of keyboard shortcuts. You will also be able to customize the keyboard to behave more like an Avid, if you want to.
Good luck.
Tom
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A mistake in my previous post:
F7 Targets Audio 1.
F8 Targets Audio 2.
Be well!
Tom
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