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synchronise clips back ground
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[Andre van Berlo] “when I sync my videos and turn the synced clip into a compoundclip”
Why would you want/need to do that? The synced clip already is a compound clip (sans the icon) that you can open with the “Open in Timeline” command. What am I missing?
But I’d say that both workflows pretty much work out to the exact same thing, only the types of clips are different. But I also suspect, if I’m understanding it correctly, that the multicam workflow would involve far fewer steps.
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Wow, don’t know… Must be something left over from the early days of fcpx, good to know i dont need the extra step. I’ll also try the new approach with multicam, thanks!
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I came accros this from larry jordan, dont know if you could use synced clips like this: https://www.larryjordan.biz/fcpx-compound-clip/
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[Andre van Berlo] “dont know if you could use synced clips like this”
Sure. Why not. But that is also references the much older version of FCP, so only applicable to a degree. And it’s hard to say if that still makes as much sense as it used to, seeing that compounds are different overall now in comparison. Something one would simply have to try and find out.
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By the way Andre… you know that when you create a synchronized clip, you can easily go into the audio tab in the inspector for the Synched clip and turn off your camera audio, and even select which channels of your external audio clip you want to hear.
There is no need to break apart the clips in the timeline.
I would only break apart the audio if I absolutely had to.
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True, that is exactly how I do that.
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“The synced clip already is a compound clip (sans the icon) that you can open with the “Open in Timeline” command. What am I missing?”
Wanted to update a little,
I’ve been working in my latest project with the synchronised clips instead of compound clips to see if they’re indeed the same but they do behave different in several ways. When I’ve edited the synced clip in the timeline and decide after the fact I’d like to have a generator inside the clip I have to do that for each of the cuts where as with a compound clip I can just add it to one of the cuts and it’ll become visible in all the other cuts as well. (kind of hard to explain)
After syncing I usually add other stuff like images and generators to the compound clips, how easy that works is different from synced clips.
Another thing (tiny) is that you have to right click a synced clip while a compound clip can be double clicked to open in the timeline.
I think there are a few other differences too.
Next I’ll check the workflow with the multicam clips but for what I do I’m guessing it’ll not necessarily be an improvement. (though I might be wrong)
Plural eyes trial is working very nicely by the way, that works super fast, thanks for mentioning it!
André
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[Andre van Berlo] “where as with a compound clip I can just add it to one of the cuts and it’ll become visible in all the other cuts as well. (kind of hard to explain)”
Yes, that’s to be expected. Works the same way with multicam clips also. You are always working inside the MASTER clip with both, there are no separate, autonomous instances as with synced clips or even regular clips for that matter.
But I wouldn’t put a generator INSIDE a compound to begin with, especially if you expect to need different ones for different instances. It would be much easier to simply use a different generator etc. in the project. But if you insist on doing it that way, then you can simply duplicate the compound in the event and use that, or duplicate it in the project and select “Reference new master clip” from the Clip menu. That will create the dupe in the event for you and place it in the timeline in which you can change the generator or whatever without affecting the others.
[Andre van Berlo] “you have to right click a synced clip while a compound clip can be double clicked to open in the timeline.”
In fact simply clicking the little icon at the top left of the compound in the timeline ONCE will open it.
[Andre van Berlo] “I’m guessing it’ll not necessarily be an improvement.”
If you do the same as you have till now, probably not. But if you adjust things accordingly (such as what I described) it very well should. It will give you much more to work with on a metadata level also.
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Thanks Robin for your reply, I’m gonna try to do my next project differently and try to implement your suggestions. What I should mention is that I edit a lot of multi camera guitar tutorials which has its own needs but I sense there is a lot more to FCPX than I currently know so going to explore some more, thanks!
André
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