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For bogiesan Re: Multiclip
There shouldn’t be any limit on how long you can capture. You can recapture the entire trio of 90 minute clips, just change your prefs.
I don’t like to work with 90 minute sequences. Too much can go wrong. I’d suggest you recapture properly and create three slightly overlapping sequences or projects. But that’s just me.
Multiclip is fascinating but I’m finding it a ridiculously complex implementation with far too many weird options that just get in the way of the work I need to do. Be sure to activate the Multiclip layout so you have access to the pre-made button bars.
Good luck and please let us know how you make out. There are only a few folks using multiclip, apparently.
bogiesan
The project is going very well. I find it very easy to rough cut 3 cameras and then tweak them in the timeline with all the editing tools. I am taking the whole audio multitrack to STP and will do a final mix. The only problem I had was with the audio in Multiclip. I could either set the audio to one camera angle for the entire sequence or set the audio to follow the clip angle. I have not figured out how to move back and forth once I start to edit. I’m sure there is a way but coundn’t figure it out looking at the manuals etc.
John
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Cool, thanks for the update.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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One of the greatest things to come to FCP is Multiclip, Love it and edit sequences of more than 2 1/2 hours. Give it some time you’ll figure it out.
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> One of the greatest things to come to FCP is Multiclip, Love it and edit sequences of more than 2 1/2 hours. Give it some time you’ll figure it out.< Agreed, Mutliclip is way cool. What I find frustrating is the amount of memorization required which, of course, once you get good at it, isn't really that big a deal. I wish the interface had been more direct and less button-intensive but I'm still learning it. The number of switches and viewing enablers you must set is kinda silly and I wish I oculd just point and click at the clip I wanted active and maybe option-click for audio-follow-video and control-click for audio-only. Umm, like I say, my experience is a bit limited with it, all of these features may be readily available or even better than I imagine. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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When you set up the multiclip with sync set to open and the timeline loaded into the view, just click on the angle you want to use and that gets edited into the timeline. I don’t see the value of the buttons and using the keypad would be kind of hard as well. So I just click on the picture I want to use and it is done. Then I go back and fine tune the edit using extended edit or the roll tool. It is all way too cool and I think with practice it will cut my time editing time in half and put out a much better product.John
John
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When you set up the multiclip with sync set to open and the timeline loaded into the view, just click on the angle you want to use and that gets edited into the timeline. I don’t see the value of the buttons and using the keypad would be kind of hard as well. So I just click on the picture I want to use and it is done. Then I go back and fine tune the edit using extended edit or the roll tool. It is all way too cool and I think with practice it will cut my time editing time in half and put out a much better product.Has anyone had any experience with the audio part of mulitclip. Such as making one angle your source and then changing that angle as you work down the timeline? I shot a wedding and have one camera set to a wireless lav and the others open. I would like to use the wireless camera for the vows and then the other camera for the rest but use all 3 cameras for the view.
John
John
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John, this is a response I got from Don Greening a while back on the same subject:
“You’ll notice that once you’ve loaded your multiclip into the viewer that the active video track has a blue border and the active audio track has a green one. Before you start to cut just make sure that you have FCP set up to just cut the video and not the audio, otherwise you’ll cut to the active video track’s audio each time, which is what I understand you don’t want to do. Page 280 in volume II will explain this better than I.”
Hope that helps!
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What I found confusing at first for changing the audio and video preferences in a multiclip, is that you first select whether you want video+audio, just video or just audio (from the drop down menu at the top of the viewer)… THEN you select the angle you are assigning it to. It doesn’t work if you select the camera angle first, then try to set the preferences.
Bob
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