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Dealing with free-run timecode tapes for multi-cam shoot
I read all the posts I could find on this subject and they all pretty much say the same thing: dub the tape for continuous TC.
Problem is, this is a multi-cam shoot, so we need to keep the free-run TC intact for matching later on. Just wondering how other FCP editors have dealt with this kind of scenario.
It wouldn’t be so bad if the cameras weren’t starting and stopping every few minutes. I’ve got FCP set to create a new clip at each break and it seems to do a pretty good job with it. I was afraid of the frame accuracy when FCP does this, but did some spot-checks and the TC appears to be solid. Then, I go back and manually increment the Reel #’s (001a, 001b, etc) for recap’s.
Any better way to do this? Or am I on the right track?
Thanks for any tips.
Ronald J.
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5 Replies
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Sorry, should’ve mentioned:
Tapes are DVCAM. Deck is Sony DSR-40.
G5 Dual 2.7 GHz
2 GB RAM
OS 10.4.6
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seems to me everything’s running smoothly for you.
only thing i;d say is there should be no need to change the reel#’s FCP does that for you.
nick
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Biggest problem I had wasn’t frame accuracy, but the multiclip Match Frame function not working properly if the clips didn’t have matching code.
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[NIckM] “only thing i;d say is there should be no need to change the reel#’s FCP does that for you.”
Nick, thanks a lot. I wasn’t aware that FCP incremented the Reel #’s. Does it really do this? I’m not at my workstation at the moment, so I can’t see it with my own eyes. I actually ended up going back (early on) and changing the Reel #’s back to normal, b/c there were so many clips being made, it would just confuse things. And it’s not the same as working with TC breaks where the code zeros out.
FCP is doing a pretty good job, though. I can’t see any problems yet and I’ve made some multiclips with the clips which work fine (aside from ‘make multiclip sequence’ errors).
G5 Dual 2.7 GHz
2 GB RAM
OS 10.4.6
FCP 5.0.4
QT 7.0.4 -
[Bob] “Biggest problem I had wasn’t frame accuracy, but the multiclip Match Frame function not working properly if the clips didn’t have matching code.”
Bob, I just starting using the multiclip function and I really like it for our purpose here (cutting a 3-camera documentary that follows around a large crowd of kids).
I had a few angles that didn’t sync up exactly and I’m not sure if this was due to FCP or the camera itself being a few frames out of sync with the rest. But I slipped it into place by control-shift-dragging it into place.
I haven’t been able to get ANY clips to automatically show up in a Sequence, though. I keep getting the same error about media duration or something. Doesn’t seem to matter what clips I use, I *always* get this error. I’d like to find out why, but it’s not a necessity right now. Any ideas?
Did have two clips that should’ve went together into a multiclip, but didn’t. Timecodes matched fine, but FCP didn’t want to sort them together unless I manually highlighted just those two clips and made a multiclip. If they were in a bunch, they got sorted as seperate clips. ???
Did you manage to get yours to work in the end?
G5 Dual 2.7 GHz
2 GB RAM
OS 10.4.6
FCP 5.0.4
QT 7.0.4
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