Multicam edit NIGHTMARE

[Jeremy Garchow]

If you are not comfortable with this process, stay away from red rushes and use log and transfer. Inwiukd recommend using prores proxy in a multicam edit. Slow down and take the time to actually read the Red whitepaper. It’s very clear.

Jeremy

[Uvi Orogun]

Hi All,

Just an update and hopefully help someone else someday.

Taking all the advice in, I used the REDrushes to scale the clips down to 720 x 576 (Pal) Quicktime ProRes 422 (LT). Once this process completed, I was able to drag into FCP and Multicam worked like a magic! I have now finish editing something that will usually take me at least 4-5 days in just 1 day thanks to Multicam.

Grading time 🙂

Thank you all for your support, I appreciate it.

[Thom Obarski]

To online now with red; I would recommend downloading clipfinder and following their whitepaper.

In a nutshell you:

1. export an xml of your timeline (I would recommend baking out the other multiclips angles if you are truly locked thru media manager first),
2. Run a conform on that xml tile thru clipfinder which you will point to locate your R3D’s. If the timebase, timecode, and filenames are all the same it will replace your existing media with the R3D files, conform to the sequence settings you want, and spit out a new XML file.
3. Import this new XML file into FCP, you now should have a frame accurate timeline of your original, but now with your raw files
4. Send this new timeline to color and enjoy grading with a full debayer off of camera raw files!

Quick note, Color reading R3D is very processor and RAM intensive; to avoid crashing color I would recommend limiting the sequences you send there to roughly 5 minutes and def no more than 200 cuts. We’ve found that since we usually have to break out reals in 10 minute chuncks to send to audio we just divide that in half and color a real 1A and 1 B and so on.

“This is post, you can’t fix it after this.”

[Joel Wiersema]

I can add a bit about my experience and how the last two days have led me to figure out WHY my multicam wouldn’t work. Basically. I had two 960×540 ProRes files. I resized to 1280×720 which is 25% larger. Works. Wow. Took forever to discover this, but I did it. Ug. I used Compressor and duplicated the ProRes setting and did a custom 16:9. Done.

Originally I had H.264 that I converted from WMV from a Canon camcorder. AND I had a Flip video. So I converted Flip to a H.264 and shrunk it down to match. (originally I did this so i wouldn’t have to render.) That worked. Then I hit the MultiCam wall. That caused many a curse words. So I converted both files to Apple Pro Res. Still same problem. Everything I read said ProRes was the way to go. Then in this thread, I saw written In Sacci’s post, he mentioned:

[Michael Sacci] “So I’m pretty sure only 1920×1080, 1280×720 or 720×280 will work. (of course PAL and DVCProHD equivalent will also work)”

I passed over it first, then went back and thought AH HA! So i did two samples. Worked. So now I’ll resize all. THANK YOU, Sacci.