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Multiclip advice needed please…
Bare with me as I’m new to this….
So, I’ve shot a gig with 10 cameras – 9 of those cameras went through a vision mixer, and in addition to a live mix I also iso’d them all with identical Time Of Day timecode to DigiBeta. I’ve made them all into a multiclip all fine and dandy no problems there.
However, I had a tenth camera recording independently, roaming around the venue, getting me the odd novelty angle here and there. This camera was jam synced with the same TOD timecode, but the camera operator continually stopped and started the camera throughout the gig and I’ve ended up with about 100 shots with timecode breaks in between. The timecode of every shot matches the other cameras of course, because it’s TOD, but there are gaps during the periods where his camera wasn’t running.
My question is – how do I turn all of the footage from Camera 10 into a new angle in my multiclip? Short of making 100 new angles I can’t see how to do it.
Any advice will be really truly appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve.
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4 Replies
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Try selecting all of the clips, then right click and select make multiclip sequence. This should align all of the clips on a timeline with gaps between the timecode breaks.
Now try to add that sequence as a multiclip.
That might work.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
I have never done the above but that might help speed up what I do.
First, break the record thumb of the cameramen, then
Make a sequence that TC starts at the same spot as the first clip, then place all the clip at their respective spots on the timeline, that way the clips TC always matches the sequence TC. This will produce black video gaps where the cameramen stopped rolling.
Finally export the sequence and now you have a single clip of the camera angle that has the correct TC as all the other clips.
Add this to the other camera angles.
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This is a really good option unless it is a long event. But in that case, just do different clips for different hours to break it up.
I don’t have any footage to play with right now, but you should try the make multiclip sequence to speed things up.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
Thanks very much for your advice – I made a multiclip from all the clips, and it did indeed put everything in the right place in the timeline with approproate gaps, but FCP wouldn’t accept the multiclip as a new angle in the viewer.
So, I’ll have a go at placing the clips in a timeline with the same starting timecode and render it out to a new movie file. I’ll also lace it up in sync with one of the other cameras – that way I can check to see if the jam synched timecode has slipped at any point, which it sometimes does.
I guess I should call the new clip Tape 10 so that FCP will know what to digitise when I redigitise my final timeline at uncompressed quality? I’m currently digitised at PAL DV25 – the show is over 3 hours, and was shot with 10 cameras after all…
Thanks very much for your help – I’ll let you know how I get on.
Meanwhile, I have one other small problem I can’t get my head around to do with using an external video monitor which I’ll post in a new thread.
Cheers,
Steve.
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