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FCP: synching sound & color matching from 3 cameras
This is the first time I have edited something from 3 cameras. The color is off on all 3 and I don’t know how to perfectly sync up the sound. Is there an easier way to sync the sound other than just trial by error frame by frame? Also, is there a way to match the color from one camera to another (I know you can do that in AVID Xpress, but I’m not sure about FCP). Thanks!
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To sync up sound try putting both audio tracks in the timeline stacked and then zoom in on the waveform. You should be able to see where the waveforms line up. You could also look for a visual cue (i.e. light flashing, something dropping, etc…) that shows up on all 3 cameras and sync those visually and the audio should follow.
To to a quick down-and-dirty color match, try adding the 3-way color corrector and grabbing the color picker next to the highlights color wheel. Click this on your canvas image on something that should be white and you should see some instant results. Do this to all 3 angles and they should match up reasonably close (hard for me to say without seeing the footage).
That being said… You will almost always have to do some color correction with multiple camera shoots, really even single camera shoots with different setups.Hope this helps.
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios
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