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Multicam keyword insanity
Hi,
I’m just starting to get accustomed to the whole new workflow and keywording in final cut x, and I came across a problem.
I am editing footage which includes interviews with two cameras and external sound.
I started adding keywords to parts of the interviews I wanted to use later (by calling them stuff like “Tom about Self” and “Tom about Sandy” and whatever – is that the best option? I feel like I’m accumulating insane amounts of keyword collections!).
Then I realized that I hadn’t synced the multicam and audio yet.
1) Do I need to sync those beforehand, or can I transfer the sections I keyworded to the synced clips later?
2) When I sync the two cameras and the sound, and THEN keyword it, I go into the original full clip in the multicam editor view, which makes the keywording useless. If I just drag the keyworded clip into the project, I get just that section, but it treats the audio as a third camera. Which connects to another question:
3) Once I created a new multicam clip, how can I turn off the audio on the two cameras and just use the extrernal audio source? When I try doing so, it just doesn’t play any audio at all.
I hope what I say makes sense! I’m horrible at describing (and identifying!) problems.
Thank you so much!
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5 Replies
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Sync your clips first, then log/keyword. You can turn off the tracks for the cameras in the inspector for each clip. But there isn’t much need. You can determine which audio is to be used in the multicam editor, in the multicam viewer, or by right clicking the clip on the timeline. Ditto for which video angle is the default.
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Thanks, very silly, I should have seen that.
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Not silly at all! It’s not completely intuitive, and I still seem to get the wrong audio track in the event at times.
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Bret & Alice, If I may add in my two cens worth.
Bret is 100% right in saying it’s probably best to sync your audio to your interviews prior multicaming, however event though you haven’t done so already, you can still use these “keyworded” selects.
Let me try explain :
In the screen grab below, first select your external audio recording and added it to a multicam clip.
Then add a new angle, and drop the selects in that track.
Making sure your clips are selected, click on the triangle and choose sync selection to monitoring angle.
When the processing is done, your selected clips should sync in place.
Hope that makes sense.
Cheers – Tony -
Nice.
I sync all the angles and the audio at same time. Then log the multicam.
If you add angles to an existing multicam clip, does the multicam clip inherit the keywords of the added angle? I think that was what was going wrong. She was logging, then creating the multicam.
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