Color Correcting Sync’d Clips

[Robin S. kurz]

Question is: why would you even have multiple clips in a synced clip to begin with??

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[Jeff Krieger]

Hi Robin,

For interview pieces, I typically have one audio track and multiple video tracks as a result of starting and stopping the camera.

[Robin S. kurz]

You know that’s called a “Multicam”, no? 😀

Something where you can do a color correction on a clip by clip basis in the master btw.

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[Jeff Krieger]

So, even though it’s relatively the same shot, you would use multi cam? I typically use multi cam if it’s multiple cameras and sync footage if it’s the same camera. Here’s my timeline…

[Robin S. kurz]

Well, if it’s the same shot/camera probably not, no. But that doesn’t in fact look like the same shot/camera, so yes, probably maybe.

Or you can simply use as is and simply correct one shot and paste the correction to the other instances. But I might even make three separate clips from them, too, and edit them and paste the attributes as needed. Who knows. There are many roads leading to Rome. It’s up to you to figure out what works best. You’re the one in front of it.

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[Jeff Krieger]

Thanks for the input, Robin. I wanted to confirm if I was doing something wrong. Because…as I said…the corrections disappear when I go back into the clip. Perhaps it’s a bug in FCP.

I’ve found I can tweak audio in both the indiv clips and the big sync’d clip if I have lower audio issues. Can bring it up in both. Not sure if many folks do that.

Thx again.

[Noah Kadner]

How were those shots created? Were you running separate audio continuously and stopping and starting the camera to reframe? Be much better to just keep rolling as you change camera position/lens setting. Anyways- if these are all shots from the same moment of action and they all match the audio, you should be able to use a Multicam clip instead of a synced clip.

Noah

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[Robin S. kurz]

Yepp. And if you fill in the camera name/angle metadata fields accordingly (whether it was a one or two camera shoot), FCP will even create single track camera angles with the appropriate gaps from your start/stops. And again, you can cc them as needed. So I’d say the multicam route would be the better one. Aside from also being able to easily change the angles (assuming there are overlapping angles) with the number keys in the project directly, WITHOUT having to dive into the clips timeline.

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[Mark Morache]

I’d say you should use the “synchronize clip” function, since there are not multiple angles, simply audio synchronization.

This should give you a single clip with the separate video clips alligned to the continuous audio track.

As for the color correcting, yes, you can make one adjustment and copy and paste the color attribute to all of the clips. I would step inside the synchronized clip (control-click the synchronized clip and select “open in timeline”) and add a color correction layer that extends over the entire clip.

Ripple has a free one.
https://www.rippletraining.com/using-the-adjustment-layer-title-in-final-cut-pro-x.html

It’s basically a blank title track that you connect and extend over all your video clips. When you apply a color effect to this, it affects everything under it.

This way, by editing the synchronized clip into your timeline, you can easily step back into it to make any color adjustments, then step back out and see that every instance of that clip in your timeline had the new adjustment.

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Mark Morache] “This should give you a single clip with the separate video clips alligned to the continuous audio track.”

How is that different to what you would get with a multicam clip?

[Mark Morache] “and add a color correction layer that extends over the entire clip.”

Question is if the same correction is needed for every clip i.e. can be used for all of them.

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