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Creating Multiclips – fast
When logging multiple camera angles for multiclip prior to digitizing – is it possible to duplicate the clip and change the reel # on the duplcate within FCP? Currently, the reel number on a duplicated clip cannot be changed multually exclusive of the original. (the angle can, but that’s no help when batch digitizing) If FCP can multiclip 128 angles, there’s got to be an easier way than logging the same time shot 128 times!
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Its not within FCP, but its easy…
Log once.
Export as Batch List.
Open in Excel…change the reel number.
Import Batch ListIt’s faster than it sounds.
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and if you don’t have excel, you can open it in textedit and just use
find/replace to do the same thing.Dan
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Reel and TC info is stored within the Quicktime media itself, not in Final Cut.
You have to duplicate the media in the Finder and the import the new clip. Then you can change the reel.
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[Sean ONeil] “Reel and TC info is stored within the Quicktime media itself, not in Final Cut.
You have to duplicate the media in the Finder and the import the new clip. Then you can change the reel.
“There’s no media yet. He’s talking about preparing his batch capture bin with identical timecodes from each camera…w/o having to make identical entries in the log/capture tool.
The method Danrnw and I described works for this purpose.
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Oh My God, you are soooo wrong.
Do you do multicam editing?Let’s say you have a three camera, simultaneous timecode shoot.
Log and capture your center camera, for instance.
Then from that bin, select all clips, export batch list.
Open that list in textEdit.
Using find/replace, change your cam2 to cam1 (if you titled them that way(for instance)
and change your reel number from 1002 to 1001 (for instance).
Save as a text file.
Make a new bin.
Import batch list at 29.97 (for instance).
Now capture the new bin of clips from your new reel, cam1.
Repeat for Cam3.
Then making multiclips is sooo easy it a joke.
Much easier than AVID.
You simply highlight your three bins and select make mulitclip sequence.
You will get multiclips for each segment.
You will also get a large sequence of all the stuff together,
but I just trash that sequence.Done.
Dan
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Sorry John, I was talking to Sean, in case that isn’t clear.
And I agree with you….cheers,
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[Danrnw] “Much easier than AVID.
You simply highlight your three bins and select make mulitclip sequence.
You will get multiclips for each segment.
You will also get a large sequence of all the stuff together,
but I just trash that sequence.”Doesn’t the multiclip sequence feature in FCP pretty much do the same thing (I’ve never used the feature in Avid or FCP….I’ve only used the basic Avid group clip/FCP multiclip, despite having done hundreds of multicam shows.
see page II-254 in the manual, if you dont know what I am talking about.
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Forgot to mention…
you need to enter an angle number in the log window when doing multicam editing.
1 for cam1, 2 for cam2, etc. or a, b, c.
If you forget, no biggie,
(but make sure you do this BEFORE you create your multiclips)
In the browser, go to the angle column in the cam2 bin (for instance).
You can change all the angles to any number, even after you have
captured. Change all the cam1 to 1, etc.
Change one of them, then you can change all of them at the same time
by highlighting all the clips.( But you have to do one of them first.)
This is how FCP knows which box to put the camera when you are
watching multiclips.Dan
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hummm
in my online manual, II-254 is setting keyframes.
I’m still on FCP 5.1.4As for making the multiclips, I’ve found if you want to do a bunch
of them at the same time from three or four bins of cameras,
you use “make multiclip sequence”. Then you have all your multiclips
in one bin and a complete sequence that is useless (to me anyway)
so I just trash it.
Or are you saying AVID did it the same way?
I never could get AVID to do grouping in any quick way like FCP
but maybe I wasn’t doing it correctly in AVID.Dan
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Excel is a great way, but there’s another way to do it within FCP. Once you log the Cam1 clip, drag that clip from the browser back into the log and cap window. You will now have the exact same info as the logged clip. You can then change the reel number and angle, then hit log clip again and you now have two clips, similar name, same tc, different reel number and angle. If you have logged all your clips already, then Excel/TextEdit is the way. If you have not logged them, then doing it as you go is not a big deal either.
As always there are a few ways of going about it.
Jeremy
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