Creating Multiclips – fast

[Dan Riley]

Jeremy,

Your way works, but it takes much longer for big jobs.
If you have short reels with not to many takes, then it works well.
But with hour or 90 minute reels from record decks could
have 20 takes or more.
Logging one camera reel and then
duping the in and out points and just changing the
reel number is much faster. Batch one, then then other.

My next multicam will be with three or four hard disks
fed with simultaneous timecode. It will be interesting to see
how to get all those clips to be named correctly and
multiclips made. The reason to do it in the first place
obviously is to save the enormous time of logging and
capturing, but there will still be some work to get clips
cataloged.

The other thing is, I don’t like to have my clips named the same.
When I do the find/replace for a reel change I also change the
clip name (scene23 cam2 take5) to (scene23 cam1 take5).
Makes finding clips and arranging them much easier, for me at least.

Dan

[John Pale]

[Danrnw] “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.”

Oh. I thought you were saying Avid was easier than FCP for this. My mistake. Avid has this function too, but its not as customizable as FCP’s. Never really used it. The manual pages I cited were in FCP6, but the functions are the same in FCP 5…you already knew that.

[Jeremy Garchow]

I hear ya, I was just merely offering an alternative. Really this functionality should be built into FCP if they are going to offer multicam. We should be able to easily organize a massive multicam shoot from within FCP. I, admittedly, do not really understand ‘master clip relationships’ in FCP. It truly seems unintuitive to me, but I’m sure there’s a method to the madness somewhere. IT’s just one of those things that I have never really dug into, EVen if you make the clip independent, it still seems dependent if you change a reel number (I am talking about duplicating clips from within the browser).

[Dan Riley]

I read FCP6 does one thing I’m happy about as far as MM goes…
if you change the name of a clip in the browser it will also
change the name of the clip on your hard drive.
I guess some people were seeing this as trouble if you are
using networked storage and multiple people access the clips
but for our situation, SATA RAIDS for each workstation,
it’s not a problem. But I’m with you about how FCP calls media
online, offline, master clips, etc. I’ve never really “got it”.
And I hate using the Media Manager. It’s very tricky.
And it seems FCP6 is the same, as far as I read. I can’t update
until next month, mid project and all.

Here is my most wanted feature in FCP:
Highlight a sequence. Go to the edit menu and select uprez.
A box comes up with a few check marks about what formats etc.
You hit go, it makes a new project, a new sequence and starts asking you
to load reel numbers. It has no problem with nested sections of your sequence either.
Why can’t FCP do that? (way off topic I know, but I’m just in one of those moods).

Dan

[Luke Livingston]

Thank you! Both will work – Dragging or Export.