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Logging multiple cameras
It’s just been a day full of questions for me.
I am logging multiple clips from two camera angles with the cameras on free record. I have logged all the tapes from one camera but haven’t digitized yet. Now I want to duplicate those clips and change the reel name so that I don’t have to retype all of the time codes ( I realize I’ll have to change the clip name as well). Duplicating as new master clip doesn’t let me do this. It changes the reel on both clips. Is there another way to do this?
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This is messy, but it should work:
Copy the project file itself out in the Finder. Re-name the second one something different. Open that up and change the reel name there. Capture. Then come back to your first project and capture. Then import the capture files from one of the projects into the other.
If anyone else knows a more elegant way to do this, please share, but at the very least this should get it done.
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Export a batch list of the first set of clips. Edit the reel and clip names in Excel. Import the batch list. Capture.
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You should also check to make sure the 2nd camera actually was up to speed at the same timecode points logged for camera one.
A tip shooting multicam is to always call speed on set after all camcorders and/or vtr’s have reached speed so you will have a common timecode point to start your captures at.
Tony
FYI the term when you used free record is actually “free run” which implies both cameras were jammed synced to a common timecode generator.
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I just did this with a 6 camera shoot. Works great, but tricky to wrap your head around. Everything has to be done in the right order.
- Log one reel in it’s own folder (to keep things simple and organized.)
- Duplicate the folder and rename the folder. Don’t rename the clips yet.
- Batch capture the first folder.
- Go to the second folder and select all clips and make them master clips
- Then make them offline (leave footage on disc.)
- Rename all the clips and change the reel name. (TIP: change one of the reel names, then select all clips and right click on one of the reel names to choose the correct reel name from the list.)
- Duplicate that folder and rename it and repeat as neccessary from the 3rd item above.
Worked like a charm for me. If you do something out of order, like renaming a clip or changing the reel name before the other matching clip has been captured, it changes both. Having an actual file on the drive attached to the first clip somehow locks it which allows you to change the second, after you’ve made it a master clip and offline. Also, you’d think that since they’re in different folders, you wouldn’t have to rename the clips, but not true. The file name is derived from the clip name, therefore causing a descrepancy. I simply added C2, C3 and so on to the beginning of the clip names, which had an added bonus of allowing me to quickly see which camera any clip came from.
Hope this helps,
Gary
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