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Multiple camera angles
I have a very simple, two-camera concert shoot and I’m wondering if there’s any way to view in a two-up kind of way from the timeline in order to make editing decisions on the fly. Right now, I have both tracks synched up in my timeline, but the only thing I can see to do is to make one or the other invisible (or rather, the second video track visible or invisbile). I find this a bit awkward, and also doing so nulls any rendering done thus far. Any suggestions?
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5 Replies
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FCP 5 and above has multicam editing available.
Do you not have FCP 5 or above?Dan
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I do not – and now I see why I should!
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2 cameras isn’t that complicated. We all did this on the timeline since the advent of the NLE and before we had multicam. Typically you should have 1 camera doing cut-aways and the other doing safe coverage. The cut-aways should be the best footage with close ups of fingers on strings etc and lots of swish pans and out of focus junk in between. I always put this track on top and fly through it cutting out the bad stuff and deleting it. Underneath is the safe camera so you’re done! This works well as long as the camera ops are disiplined and do as they’re told but so often you’ll find they both do the cut-aways and you can be left with nothing to work with.
Now if you like you can lift the bottom track (#1) up on top to track #3 (or better, just copy/paste it to track #3)and quickly scrub through it to see what is still covered up.
If you have the budget you can do some slomo, composites, picture in picture or other effects.
Multicam is a cool feature but it’s not the only solution by any means. -
How about this?
Sync up the two video tracks and reduce each one’s size to 50%; move one to the left side of the frame and the other to the right. That way you can watch them play back side by side in real time. Make cuts where you need to and delete the bad chunks. Then resize all clips to 100%.
A little clunky perhaps, but it should work.
Mike Raff
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Thank you for all the suggestions. I like the 50% idea because I’m not shooting or editing the concerts in a safe way and I like the flexibility of being able to choose the perfect shot to be in for each moment. Many thanks to all of you.
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