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Multipclip help
While videotaping dance shows, I use (3) cameras. Without using timecode, the cameras are synced using a stobe flash once the lights go down. After the show is taped, the (3) angles are loaded into Final Cut and put into the timeline, each on a separate video layer. I then resize each layer so I can see each angle in the TimeLine Viewer and make my cuts. This as you can imagine is extremely time consuming. I am still trying to get a handle on this new multiclip feature in Final Cut 5. How do I use this function to simplify this meathod of cutting back and forth between cameras without using timecode? Help.
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You will love FCP5 for multicam based on your present workflow.
I’ve been doing multicam shows for 20 years and for 10 with
the AVID. Apple did a nice implementation of multicam editing
with FCP5 but of course it could and will get better.You can make multiclips from in point, out point or timecode.
When you capture, in the angle box in the capture window,
put 1,2, or 3 to tell FCP which camera is which. Then after capture
all you do is put an in point on each of your clips when the
strobe hits. Then highlight the three clips (camera angles)
in the browser.
Then go to modify-make multiclip.
If you have multiple takes FCP makes it very easy to make
many multiclips at once, all automatically. Highlight all your
captured clips and use ‘make multiclip sequences’ for that. And uncheck the
make a complete sequence of all the clips, unless you
find that useful.FCP’s implimentation of multicam is very similar to AVID
and in some ways faster and in some ways more cumbersome.
But in your case, I think you will love it.Dan
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Have you done the Multicam tutorial? That did the trick for me.
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Thank you, I will definately try that.
[danrnw] “You will love FCP5 for multicam based on your present workflow.
I’ve been doing multicam shows for 20 years and for 10 with
the AVID. Apple did a nice implementation of multicam editing
with FCP5 but of course it could and will get better.You can make multiclips from in point, out point or timecode.
When you capture, in the angle box in the capture window,
put 1,2, or 3 to tell FCP which camera is which. Then after capture
all you do is put an in point on each of your clips when the
strobe hits. Then highlight the three clips (camera angles)
in the browser.
Then go to modify-make multiclip.
If you have multiple takes FCP makes it very easy to make
many multiclips at once, all automatically. Highlight all your
captured clips and use ‘make multiclip sequences’ for that. And uncheck the
make a complete sequence of all the clips, unless you
find that useful.FCP’s implimentation of multicam is very similar to AVID
and in some ways faster and in some ways more cumbersome.
But in your case, I think you will love it.Dan”
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Of course not 🙂 But I will try that too. Thanks!
[Chris Babbitt] “Have you done the Multicam tutorial? That did the trick for me.”
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I already had captured my 2 angle show in 4.5HD. Can i multiclip now i am in 5 or will i have to recap with the angle set?
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No need to recapture.
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