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Combining Clips To Use In Multi-Cam
Hello,
How do I combine many broken clips into one clip in FCP X? I need to do this before using multi-cam to edit a wedding.
Thanks,
Patrick Morrow -
2 Replies
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If you are using audio to sync, this step is unnecessary.
Be sure to assign proper camera angles and fcpx should align everything for you, black holes and all.
If none if that matters, select the clips, right click and choose to create a “Compound Clip”
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In the event browser, select all of the clips from just one of the cameras. In the inspector window, change the view to “general view”. In the Camera Name field enter “CAM 1” (or something similar). Go back to the event browser and select only the clips from the next camera. Repeat the process, this time calling it “CAM 2” and so on for each camera.
Back in the event browser select all clips from all cameras and then right-click one of them and select create multicam clip. Name your Multicam clip. Assuming that you recorded audio on all cameras, leave automatic on and make sure that “Use Audio for Synchronization” is checked. Click OK and wait for the progress bar. When it is done there will be a new clip in the Event Browser with the name you gave it earlier. It should have all the clips synchronized with each camera as its own angle and with black gaps between clips from each time any given camera stopped/started recording, drag it to the timeline.
Hit command-shift-7 to open the angle viewer and edit away.
*disclaimer*
This is off the top of my head.
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