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Multicamera Editing
Hello,
3 months ago I bought a FCP system to edit a 10 camera concert. After using the multicamera facility to cut the gig at DV quality I then embarked on the task of redigitising the shots in my timeline at 10 Bit quality. Guess what? Can’t do it! There is some sort of bug that doesn’t let the multiclip facility play ball with the Media Manager, and I now find myself in the position of having to redigitise ALL 30 hours of my footage at uncompressed quality and sorting it out from there.
So, after 3 days of wasted time, high stress and much disappointment I have decided to ditch the system in favour of something else. Concerts for TV are the mainstay of my business, so I’d like to know how you rate Avid when it comes to getting the job done. I usually use up to 10 digibeta cameras, sometimes more, and I need to work quickly and creatively without being encumbered by all the fiddly and inefficient time wasting methods employed by FCP. I can’t tell you how disappointed I am with that system.
Thanks,
Steve.
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2 Replies
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Media composer is great for multicam jobs. Capture your stuff
at low rez 10:1 or 20:1, do your cut, decompose the sequence,
then batch capture everything hi rez.I’ve never really run into an issue with that work flow.
Scott Cumbo
Editor
Broadway Video, NYC -
I agree with Scott. I work on a couple Food Network shows, one six camera and one eight camera shoot. It works great and if you synced your cameras correctly in Production the work to group these clips is next to nothing. You put the clips you want in a bin. Organize them from top to bottom (what ever is on the top will be in the first window and so on) Select all the clips you want to group and then just hit CTRL-shift-G. If your clips are synced correctly then sync by source timecode. If your clips are not synced then you will have to sync them and that is a bit of a process that I won’t go in to in this thread. But Avid Media Composer is well worth the money.
Frankie
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