Multicam using sequences instead of clips? :D

[Jeremy Garchow]

…okay explain to me how long the clips are, what filters, or effects are on them, and how exactly you export them.

Jeremy

[Nick Meyers]

“if I do a video-only QT reference export, it’s still large, almost 1 GB in size. ”

so that was 3 gigs of audio?

i wonder if FCP is creating black media for the empty spaces?
that seems silly.
maybe if you put slug in between?

“Our editors do NOT want to be working with that as it’s extremely to focus on all 20 (even though only 1 or 2 will be active at any given moment). ”

they dont have to,
they just set their display for 4-up.
then they’ll only ever see the 2 angles they need, plus black.
and that’s what they;d see with a 2 angle operation.

may need a bit of re-arianging of angles as they go,
but not much.

however, if you DO want to work with only 2 angles, the only real way is to export at full res.

OR be prepared for some manual trace-back at the end of the cut.
not impossible. but time-consuming

nick

[Andrew Schuurmann]

What if you just made two new “master” tapes? This would appear to take longer but might end end up saving lots of time and headache when trying to online again. It would work like this:

1) Digitize full rez and then create the two multiclip sequences with the appropriate audio.

2) Dump these sequences to tape — basically you’re creating new source tapes.

At this point, you can either: a) recapture the tapes lo rez and create your multiclip from there (you’d digitize from those “new” tapes when onlining); or b) export a reference movie of each multiclip sequence and then create a multiclip from them (you’d still end up digitizing from your “new” tapes).

Hopefully I understand what you’re trying to accomplish — maybe this would do the trick.

Andrew