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Move all angles inside a multicam
I am losing my ever-loving mind. I’m very new to video editing, but having come from an extensive audio editing background, it all strikes me as unbelievably unintuitive. Anyway…
I little preamble, I’m working on a short music video, so I’m working with my clips in a multicam. I began cutting and choosing angles for it on the main timeline, then realized I needed to add more angles to the multicam. But after doing so, for some reason all of the clips in my multicam have shifted to start at 38 sec or so, instead of at 0, where I need them. This makes my previous edits (angle selections? cuts? Not sure the right term) to the multicam in the main timeline all out of time and useless. So I need to move my track to start at zero, but only some of my angles start at 0, so I can’t move them individually without losing their timing to the track.How can I fix this? If I could grab all the clips in my multicam and move them silumtaneously so they maintain their relationship to each other (like you would in audio editing), I could just slide everything back to zero. But I can’t find anyway to do this. Is there something easy I’m missing?
I hope I’ve adequately explained my dilemma. I’m happy to clarify if needed.
Thank you so much,
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[Narum Hyatt] “How can I fix this? If I could grab all the clips in my multicam and move them silumtaneously so they maintain their relationship to each other (like you would in audio editing), I could just slide everything back to zero.”
I think you’re looking for the ‘Position’ tool. Open the Multicam clip, select the bits that need to move, and hit the ‘P’ key:
Doug Metz
Dalton Agency
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Have you tried to simply open the mutlicam and move them?
You can also right lick them and choose to sync to the monitoring angle, which if you have matching audio, might help.
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Thanks for the speedy replies!
Right, so that’s just it. The position tool works fine if I’m moving multiple clips on the same angle. But I need to move all the clips on all the angles, and maintain their positioning relative to each other. So I need to move them together, not one ata time. For some reason, if I select clips on two separate angles then try to move them with the position tool, FInal Cut disallows me to move them anywhere. It’s infuriating.
As for “synchronize to monitoring angle”, I used that for many of my clips, but for some the audio is “insufficient”, or I’ve manually placed the clips in order to sync to my audio. It’s a lot of work I’d rather not repeat. There’s got to be a way.
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Select clip(s) in an angle.
Hold command, and select other clips in other angles, then drag them.
Is that not working for you?
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This was my question as well… the only thing I can think of is that one of the clips is already bumping up against zero, and you can’t slide any portion of a clip off the left end.
Doug Metz
Dalton Agency
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Thanks for all the help guys. I figured it out, and the issue is crazy dumb. So, you select your clips that you want to move together, then click and drag on one of them in order to move them all. This works perfectly fine, unless the clip you choose to click and drag on happens to be an audio clip. Then you will pull your hair out, because it WILL NOT let you reposition it/them. If the top angle in your multicam happens to be your audio clip, and so you keep trying to move by that clip (because, of course. It’s what everything is supposed to synced to!), then you’re really going to lose your mind.
Moral: Do not click and drag on audio clips to move a multiple clip selection.
I really appreciate everyone’s help trying to figure this out. This is a great community, thanks everyone!
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This actually kind of makes sense, since audio clips aren’t limited to frame boundaries when repositioning.
That said, maybe they should automatically snap to frame boundaries if dragging by an audio-only clip when video is included in the selection.
Doug Metz
Dalton Agency
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Yeah, good thinking. Or at the very least give the user some indicator of why the heck they can’t move their content!
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