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  • Looking for best method for editing large number of multiclips

    Posted by Grace Elaine on June 20, 2009 at 12:15 am

    I have a project with 6 multiclips of hour long interviews (combining footage from 2 cameras, shot 24PA, brought in in multiple clips from each because of timecode breaks). I also have 13 hours of dance performances that have also been multiclipped.

    The cameras were not sync’ed, so I used auxiliary timecode to patch all of the clips together. It was hellish.

    I’m looking through all of my final cut books and have been googling for hours. I’m left a little at a loss for why multiclips don’t allow subclipping.

    When I’ve used multiclipping before, it was for a long stretch of footage that didn’t need to be intercut.

    Now that I’m working on something that’s more of a traditional documentary style, I’m kind of stuck. I would like to subclip these interviews down, name the subclips, drop them in a bin to order them, and then drop them to the timeline. All the options that I’m left with without subclipping seem suboptimal and messy.

    What have other folks done?

    Jaap Verdenius replied 16 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Jaap Verdenius

    June 20, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    I don’t see the problem – drag your multiclip to the timeline, set in and out points and create your subclip. It works.

    Well, a small problem: if you drag that subclip into another timeline then you don’t get all the angles. But if you doubleclick on that subclip it will open as a sequence itself and all angles are there.
    Doable.

    Jaap

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