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Multiclip / Subclip Workaround
I’m a documentary producer disappointed by the inability of FCP 5.1.4 to make subclips out of multiclps. I started cutting my most recent project thinking it could. For my first three-camera interview, I synced up all three cameras and made it into one long multiclip for screening and making selects. When I discovered I couldn’t make subclips from multi-clips, I decided to just blade out the portions I wanted, and copy-and-paste them into a new sequence. So far so good: They still act like multiclips.
After I had selected about two dozen passages of varying lengths, I realized they all had the same name so I couldn’t tell them apart. I decided to rename them. For each (multi)clip, I made it an independent clip and then renamed it in the item properties field. But then I wanted to put them all in one bin to help me arrange them. But when I dragged them into a bin, they all appeared with the same name again (i.e., the name they had before I renamed them.) So my question is, is this process going to work for me down deeper in the workflow? When I need to transfer it to a new workstation, for post-production or whatever, or export and EDL or XML, will it screw up things and I’ll have to start from scratch again?
I’ve searched the threads here and at Apple, and while I see others are having the same issues, I didn’t find a solution other than to go back to making my selects first, on the A camera, and then syncing up manually with the other cameras and stacking them, bite by bite, on the timeline. I’ve done this before (I’ve even used pen-and-scissors on the transcripts!) but I thought the multiclip was supposed to be and would be more efficient — AND allow me to see the different angles at the same time so I can choose the best shots in real time instead of going back and forth by blading out one video track or disabling another.
I’m finding it hard to believe that I’ve stumbled across a solution that so many with more experience have not found, so I thought I’d throw it out here to see what the possible issues are.
Without such a solution, it seems the multiclip function is only good for “live” cutting (since I have no experiecne with features I won’t comment on how it works in that scenario.) I’ve seen comments to that affect on the discussion boards — is that the consensus? I’d rather know now, at the beginning of this project, then find out down the road.Thanks!
Dave
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