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Multi-cam editing
Has multi-camera editing changed in FCP 6? Specifically, can I mix formats or framing now? My search of the Cow is finding only FCP5 answers.
How would you solve this? I have one camera in DVCPRO50 and 1 in DV anamorphic. (Dont ask, it wasn’t a choice) One camera was p2 and the other was captured in 5 minute clip lengths. My understanding of FCP multi-clips is it assumes each camera was captured as 1 long clip rather than many shorter clips. Neither of these two were, therefore should I re-render each camera’s timeline to one long clip after syncing on a timeline in order to switch edit the entire 1hr show?
Given the above scenario, would you suggest I use ProRes422 or stay with one of the two native formats? How best to accomplish multi-camera editing in FCP?
much thanks, td
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I’d bump the DV to DV50… then everything else is the same as in FCP 5. Compressor 3 will do this conversion. Just select all of the clips that are DV25 and export them “using compressor”. But:
If I’m reading this right, you could export a self contained QT movie of each camera after syncing, and probably make things easier… Put slug where you need to move a camera’s video to sync with the other’s.. that way they’ll just disappear when you don’t have a choice between them, forcing you to use the camera which wasn’t in pause. Just be very careful with the syncing and you’ll be good to go.
I’m unclear actually about mixing formats in a multiclip, but doing so, even if it works, still would use up cpu cycles to do the conversion to the format you choose to edit in. ProRes might be a solution too. give it a try sans changing formats and do report back with results. We can all learn from this experiment of yours…
Jerry
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