multicam stacks everything in a pile

[Bret Williams]

How are you syncing them? You need to label the cameras in the inspector. That, TC, or audio has to sync them. Do you have an audio file to sync them to? Or just each other?

[Bill Davis]

[hoss wuerslin] “I know i’m doing this wrong.
why can’t FCPX taks the clips from each camera and line them up and then why can’t it sinc from sound.

Please help.

Hoss
“

A) it can.
B) it’s not a simple or trivial tool.
C) everyone does things a little bit differently, so your workflow may be making it harder or easier than it needs to be – which is something you’re going to have to figure out for yourself.

Generally. If you’re shooting double system, then you should make compound clips syncing the sound and visuals first. ID each take and select the camera shot and sound take and use X’s Syncronize facility to make a sync compound. Then go in to that compound and kill the camera mic to leave just the good sound.

I don’t know that particular camera, but if it’s broken takes are contiguous, I’d keyword each part so you can assemble each continuous take in the Event Browser.

This way you’ll end up with continuous camera angles with good sound marked for easy timeline arrangement in Multicam.

Then bring those into X’s Multicam area – arrange and post switch your project.

That’s one possible workflow out of a hundred, and I might be mistaking what you’re starting with, and if so, bets are off.

But it’s one way to approach what I think you’re describing.

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[Bret Williams]

To expand: to make sure all the clips from the same camera come out on the same layer in the multicam editor you need to make sure that in the inspector, basic view, the “Camera Name” field is filled out. You can highlight all the Cam 1 clips at once if I remember right, and type a camera name into that field. Do that before you make the multicam clip, any breaks in a camera get lined up on the same layer.

If you’re choosing “use audio for synchronization” which it sounds like you are, the clips obviously need to have fairly decent audio that the waveforms can be matched up.

I don’t think the app gives a darn what your keyword collections are or what you’ve named the files.

[Hoss Wuerslin]

That nailed it Bret!
I was not putting in the angle name in the inspector; I was putting it just on the clips.
You are like a god to me now.
Thank you so much.

Hoss

[Bret Williams]

My inspector says camera name, but I think we’re talking about the same thing. My first round of multicam ended up with long interviews. Each time the b camera or a camera had to stop or switch cards, the new clip was on another layer. Then I read or saw a post that you have to tell FCP the camera name so it groups them together on the same layer. Glad it worked for ya. Worked for me.