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Multicam Question
I’ve flicked through a couple of topics on this that have kind of provided me with answers, but I wanted to ask more specifically my issue.
I’ve been given a FCP 6 file with all the footage already imported. However, the way it was imported into FCP captured each tape (three of them) as sixty glorious minutes of footage. It isn’t continuous though. There are cuts in the perfomance.
I’ve managed to sync up about half the performance pulling the sections of the clips before the cuts out so that they sit in the timeline with slug in between them. Is there a way to highlight all the clips on one track and make a new master clip of all fifteen clips from one angle, rinse and repeat for the other two angles then multiclip them together to cut it?
It’s a total mess and I have a headache just thinking about it.
Suggestions? Advice?
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3 Replies
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You could export a reference movie for each angle/track, reimport them and multiclip that. Via File>Export Quicktime Movie, make sure that Make selfcontained is deselected.
Jaap
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PS if the cameras stopped and started at about the same time you could also make a multiclip sequence.
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The suggestion to export a reference movie is fine but I’d carry this a few steps further. the idea is to create three new media files that represent your cameras as if they were properly synced.
Begin with the camera that holds the most useful or longest takes.
1. Create n empty sequence called Reel Syncer.
2, Bring each reel into a corresponding track but you’re going to do this with only one reel’s resources at a time.
3. You will deliberately edit each resource to end up with a start-to-finish track. You will use the razor blade to chop up and delete or move the chunks between starts and stops. You will fill the gaps with colored mattes (not black slugs, use a different color matte for each reel).
4. Once it’s all in position, turn off the track and start work on another one. You will use the stage action or the audio tracks to sync things up precisely.
5. Depending on the complexity of the shooting or the stupidity of your camera operators, this will go together very quickly or take you many frustrating hours.
6. You can copy the contents of an entire track and paste them into an empty sequence. Export it as new media. Yes, it consumes 12 gigs of drive space for an hour but having the media makes everything from this point much easier.
7. Bring the three new clips into a new project and make them your three angles in a multiclip.
8. Have fun explorig the multiclip editing interface. It’s great fun but it does NOT work like you think it should so read up on it first.The presence of a colored matte on the screen represents a segment that must be filled with b roll.
bogiesan
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