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Multicam, shot time of day, on a river!
Dear Cow Heard,
There is a heck of a lot of forum activity about Multicam work, which I am searching through but wanted to see if anyone had some good pointers for a project I have comming up.
We are shooting a doco film over 3 days on a river in Africa. Each day will consist of 4-5 hours ‘action’ on the water. There will be 2 fixed water proof cameras on the ‘staring’ boat, 2 camera on a crew boat and a final camera on the shore picking up GV’s, wides of the action etc.
In addition to this there will be 2 radio mics recording audio to hard disk (192kbps MP3) from the ‘staring’ boat which has 2 people in.
Due to production pressures we have a stupidly short amount of time to cut this programme so need as efficent an edit as possible. This means eye matching sound and picture with the amount of footage we will have is impossible in the given time. Multiclip sequences in tests I’ve done seem to present a good way of building chucks of action to cut down.
At the moment my plan is to use matching time of day timecode on all 5 cameras and the audio record. If this is captured with FCP making a new clip on timcode breaks I can make Multiclip sequences of all the relevent footage for a given period and then cut this down to make the show.
Here are my questions:
1) It there a way I can capture the footage in larger chunks (so I don’t loose time at the top and tail of my clips, like you do when crating a new clip on timecode breaks) and divide it up so the Multiclip function works properly? – so far I’ve tried subcliping larger chunks of footage but only the first clip is put on the timeline in the correct place and the rest bunch up behind it.
2) I’d like to be able to create sequences that have one camera on one video track at the monet they seem to jump around and don’t stick to one layer – which would make knowing what cameras I have availible at any one time much easier.
3) What probelms will I have later taking this into Color? Will colapsing the sequences at the end help? Will I have to match frame back to the source footage and re-inser it into my sequence before going to Color? Can anyone give me workflow pointers for preping this for Color (Walter B – I’ve been using your training DVD with great resluts so far, but multiclips seem to present thier own problems)
FINALLY, the crew fly out on August 20th so if there are any suggestions for the way it is to be shot there is still time to do that.
Many thanks,
Luke
Mac Pro Quad 3GHz, 4GB RAM, 2x7TB XServe RAID
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i have been looking into this control surface which looks well nice
it is programmable and works with final cut pro
https://www.frontierdesign.com/Products/AlphaTrack
there is another compatible one for even cheaper
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No worries Ben.
The long posts nearly always get ignored, so it was great to have some response, even if it was intended for something completely different. The control surfaces look interesting though.
Mac Pro Quad 3GHz, 4GB RAM, 2x7TB XServe RAID
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