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multiclip… I waited… for this?
OK, I admit I haven’t really given it that much of a go… but I have to do an edit from a four camera shoot, all shot wild on mini DV or DVCAM.
After reading the entire chapter in the PDF, I’m still not getting it. I tried everything I could think of, but I just don’t get it, it seems needlessly complex.
Why can’t I just create a single sequence with four clips all lined up, hand synced, and do my camera selects? I was really jazzed about this feature, but it seems like Apple made it needlessly complex.
Has anyone else tried it? Is it just me?
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I don’t have any sources that I can sync but I put 4 random clips together dragged it to the timeline and was cutting between angles. I think the mutliclip function rocks. What is your exact problem?
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OK, maybe it’s just my situation. I have footage from four different cameras, some of which were across two tapes due to time issues. The difficulty isn’t just switching between four clips like you suggest. The issue I have is the only way to get the clips in sync is to put them into sequences. Well, I can’t select the four sequences and create a multiclip… it doesn’t allow the selection of sequences.
OK, so I exported all the sequences out as clips with a common starting point… and then I can create a multiclip. Works fine. BUT… it appears that one of my clips has some time code issues (tried capturing several times) so timing is different. Pain.
I guess I was hoping for a sequence rather than clip based solution.
I’m not giving up, and I suppose it’s possible I’m whining but the solution is really there in front of me… 🙂 I’m going to keep reading, but in the meantime I just dragged the four sequences into a new sequence and cut away, and now I’m rendering out a DVD.
Anyway, thanks for the response.
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Mark, not sure if this helps but have you tried creating a Multiclip Sequence? This will actually put all your clips in a sequence so that you don’t have to. Or is your problem that once in sync, one of your clips loses sync? Just trying to understand. If you have to first manually Sync, you can do that in a sequence but then just select the clips in browser and sync by inpoint.
Workflow suggestion:
Place Cam A Cam B Cam C Cam D in Sync in Timeline and set Inpoints where to start the shots
If suddenly in middle of clip Cam B becomes out of sync, make subclips the shots that stayed in sync and rename.
Start the process over with subclips and the camera that became out of sync, so place back in TL to sync etc.
Then you can select all those shots and Make a Multiclip sequence. FCP will actually put it into order of timecode so clips fall into correct order. Hope this helps.
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