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Multicam Slip Sync Question
Hey Folks:
Okay, so using multi cam to sync a two-cam shoot. For the most part, works great. However, there are some clips that I need to go in and manually adjust relative positions to get perfect sync. I open the multi cam clip in the timeline/angle editor and adjust the clips as needed.
Here’s my question: I can only seem to hear the active clip angle, which makes it much harder to manually sync. With 7, or other NLEs. being able to hear audio from both clips, adjusting a frame or two at a time until they got in sync was easy peasey. Now, I am using the waveform themselves which is more clunky and time consuming.
(Of course if I had matching time code, no problem, but that’s another story).
Any advice on how hear both audio outputs from both (or more) individual clips in the timeline editor?
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In the angle editor, you just have to highlight the speaker icon for each angle you want to hear.
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[Michael Hadley] “Okay, so using multi cam to sync a two-cam shoot. For the most part, works great. However, there are some clips that I need to go in and manually adjust relative positions to get perfect sync. I open the multi cam clip in the timeline/angle editor and adjust the clips as needed. “
Are you actually able to do this? I have not been able to slip audio-only of an edited clip on the project timeline. It slips all angles at once. In fact, I also can’t mix or edit individual audio channels when the source is a multi-channel audio clip.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
Thanks. Somehow I didn’t see it.
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When you open the multi cam “open in angle editor” or right click and then select that, you can slip audio, adjust video timings, etc.
Can’t seem to adjust separate audio tracks, however. But, seems likes back in the timeline, you can break apart clip items and get access to the individual tracks—if you make them dual mono track in advance.
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[Michael Hadley] “When you open the multi cam “open in angle editor” or right click and then select that, you can slip audio, adjust video timings, etc.”
When you do that, you slip it for the length of the entire source clip, not a section corresponding between camera cuts. If it’s a 30min. camera angle, you are slipping it for the entire 30 min. not just a 2 sec. section, for example.
[Michael Hadley] “But, seems likes back in the timeline, you can break apart clip items and get access to the individual tracks”
No, “break apart” and “detach” are greyed out
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
You are definitely right about the audio in multi cam. Wonder then how you can mix different tracks (a boom mic and a lav) in the timeline then?
As to slipping a 30 minute multicam clip, in the angle editor, you can blade just the section you to tweak and then adjust as needed. At least that worked for me. Only a small portion of the clip is then impacted.
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[Michael Hadley] “Wonder then how you can mix different tracks (a boom mic and a lav) in the timeline then?”
You have to add the tracks as connected clips to the timeline and mute the audio in the multiclip.
[Michael Hadley] “you can blade just the section you to tweak and then adjust as needed”
Sure that works, but it makes the process completely unworkable in any practical sense as a normal way of working. Apple completely forgot that audio is more than 50% of the process when they added multicam.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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