Multiclip

[David Bogie]

> Because of the restraints of capturing video in increments of no more than 30 minutes. I have 3 clips for each roll of film which makes 9 clips total with different start times. I synced them all up and used a common in point. I want to be able to use multiclip for the whole event.
< There shouldn't be any limit on how long you can capture. You can recapture the entire trio of 90 minute clips, just change your prefs. I don't like to work with 90 minute sequences. Too much can go wrong. I'd suggest you recapture properly and create three slightly overlapping sequences or projects. But that's just me. Multiclip is fascinating but I'm finding it a ridiculously complex implementation with far too many weird options that just get in the way of the work I need to do. Be sure to activate the Multiclip layout so you have access to the pre-made button bars. Good luck and please let us know how you make out. There are only a few folks using multiclip, apparently. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[John Thomas]

Thanks for the input. I’m new to using Multiclip and it looks like a pretty good tool. The way I usually edit multi camera shots is to sync my video and then using the Clip enable (Control B) to hide the top clip toggling back and forth to see what I want to use. Is there a better way to do this?

As far as combining the clips is there another way to do this other than capturing the whole hour plus such as combining the clips through QT export and then import them again as one cllp?

John

[David Bogie]

Back in the olden days, I edited two-camera shoots by syncing the two clips. turning off the secondary camera (on my shoots, there’s always a primary camera from which most of the footage is used), and razor-blading the primary camera to remove all of the unusable footage, stuff that absolutely cannot be used. This resulted in a v1 track that had gaping holes.

> As far as combining the clips is there another way to do this other than capturing the whole hour plus such as combining the clips through QT export and then import them again as one cllp? < You can nest them in FCP as a single clip but there's no reason you can't caputre the whole clip at once. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”