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Can\’t view more than 2 angles in multicam viewer in FCP X
I’ve just finished syncing up 7 cameras plus dual-system audio in a FCPX project. I’m ready to start editing and have hit a strange problem.
When I try to switch from “2 angles” to “9 angles” or “4 angles” etc. in the settings dropdown menu within the viewer, nothing happens. It’s stuck showing the default 2 angles and I can’t figure out how to switch to the 9-angle view. I’ve tried resizing the viewer so it’s taking up practically the entire screen but still nothing.
I feel like the answer is obvious but I’ve searched high and low in the forums and can’t find anything. I’ve never had this issue before but I’m using an older macbook and fcpx version than I usually use: 2.4 ghz i5 macbook w/4gb of ram, FCPX 10.0.8.
I realize my system may not be fast enough to cut a 7-cam multiclip in real time but I’m hoping to get by with proxies. If not, I’ll just prep the project and move it to a faster system.
I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong, if it’s a glitch or if it’s related to my lack of system resources. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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26 Replies
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When you open it up in the Angle Editor I assume all your angles are sitting there nicely synced up?
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Yes–everything is synced up in the angle editor. I can shuffle through the angles two at a time in the viewer. I just can’t switch to the 9 angle view to see everything at once.
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Sounds to me like one of those odd glitchy hang ups.
Trash prefs and reboot and if your system is under powered, transcode to proxy so you’re working with the smallest data streams practical.
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Can you show a screengrab of the issue?
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This is the screen it’s stuck on. When I click “9 angles” it stays in the 2 angle view. As you can see from the seven boxes in the bottom of the viewer window, there are 7 angles.
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Thanks, Rob.
Have you tried trashing your prefs and layouts as Bill suggested?
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What size is that screen? 4% seems pretty small!
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Yep-tried trashing prefs but no change.
The Canvas is what’s set to 4%, not the viewer. I just made the viewer as large as possible for the screenshot to show that it wasn’t an issue of screen space, which made the canvas very small. The angle view is resized automatically by scaling the window. This is a 15″ MacBook Pro and I’ve never read anything saying only 2 angles will fit on a MacBook screen. Could that be it? I’m sure I’ve done multicam edits on a MacBook before with no problems.
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What does the angle editor look like?
What happens of you open the Event viewer, view angles and scrub the multiclip.
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Gotcha. What do you see when you actually switch to 9? Do the icons at the bottom change?
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