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Multi Cam question
I am editing a 3 camera shoot of a musical performance. On one of the camera’s I used a firestore to capture the footage. Without knowing that it breaks up the clips in 2 GB chunks. So there is approximately 10 different clips. Which is annoying when I try to make a multiclip to edit. Is there anyway to join the clips so that they are now like one big long clip for camera 2? I know I could export it as a quicktime, but that would take forever and a bunch of hard drivespace. I tried nesting it but that makes it a sequence, which I can not merge into a multicip with the other camera angles.
Any advice would be helpful. thanks
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4 Replies
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I’d go with the export-as-quicktime-file option.
If you don’t do ANY effects or edits to it the export shouldn’t be too long to handle. And once you’ve made the clip you can go back and erase the original files from the hard drive so you’ll get that space back.
Kind of a pain,yes, but I think it will be better for you in the long run.
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You could create a “virtual” quicktime clip which is almost instantaneous and doesn’t take any drive space. Just use the checkbox in the make quicktime dialogue.
Herb Sevush
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I don’t see a checkbox in quicktime for making a “virtual” movie.
Where do you see that?
Or are you talking about “unchecking” the box that says
make movie self contained?Dan
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You’ve got it right, Dan.
Self-contained: Actual Video file with all data
NOT-Contained: Small, refrence file that only points to the other clips on the drive.I hadn’t suggested this in the first place for jimmy because I was worried it might drop frames during the multicam edit. But you know what? It’s pretty quick to try it. Might as well give it a shot and if it works, great!
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