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Importing video for Multicam editing
I am new to Final Cut coming over from Vegas and was looking for some help.
I am having difficulty with editing Multicam. I am using Compressor to convert videos created with Vegas on a PC to formats that FCP can use without having to be rendered. I have tried many different formats.
When I bring in the videos into the track, they will play fine individually and do not require re-rendering. Once I create a Multicam clip, however, it allways comes up unrendered, prohibiting me from using the Multicam feature with live playback of the 4 different tracks I am trying to use.
If you were importing footage from scratch and had to convert to do this, what is the best format for FCP to use in this situation so that it does not need to be re-rendered?
Thanks for any input.
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3 Replies
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What format are you converting to? And what type of device are you storing your media on?
My guess is that you don’t have enough bandwidth to play all the streams in real-time, hence the need for the render.
Try collapsing the multiclip – see if that makes the render go away.
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Tony:
I am cutting a multiclip project right now. My advice would be DV only. My old chugger G5 dual 2.3Ghz does fine with up to six or eight angles of DV but anything larger (codec and bandwidth wise) causes issues.
DV works smoothly and easily. If you need a better codec, just re-digitize at high res once you lock picture.
Easy.
Dan
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Multi-cam projects are extremely taxing on the system, Your combination of video size and resolution, the hard drive you are using, and your processor speed. I suggest that if i were starting from scratch, I’d capture in either, DV or offline resolution. whatever you can handle looking at, offline can be pretty crappy. then edit the project with multi-cam, collapse it, then send it through media manager so you can shed the excess footage. Then you can batch capture back in full resolution. 4 streams of DV footage seems to be about the most I could push my external HD running fire wire 800. any more than 4 and it begins to studder and skip after 3 or 4 min.
If you cannot capture direct into FCP then I would consider taking your Vegas files and using media manager on them to create a down-res copy. then edit with the copy, after you are finished you could collapse, media manage just the same as before. but instead of re-capturing the files you would just re-connect to the original Vegas File.
I hope this helps
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