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What is keeping me from exporting an XML? Multi-cam woes
I am cutting a 3 camera project with dslr’s. 7D and 60D. Because I have a large amount of footage, I downloaded Plural Eyes to handle the multi-cam syncing. I know how to do it in the program but not with such masses of footage. If I could sync from the storyline, I’d have a visual of my timeline, but doing it from the event browser baffles me. Plural eyes 3 works the way you did it in track based programs by stacking each angle on top another and then exporting an XML. Problem is when I go to export, the option is greyed out, and I have no idea why? Any ideas?
If I were to attemp to sync in FC, is there a way I can create a keyword collection from clips in the project? Or some way of syncing based on the footage I have laid out in the project, rather than having to resort them all in the event browser?
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I just did a music video (live performance) with a GoPro, two DSLRs (T4i and T2i) and a Sony HDV (tape) camera. The band wanted me to use the studio audio track. They also performed the song twice that night. So that’s 5 angles of cameras…main 1 (HDV first performance), main 2 (HDV second performance), detail 1 (both DSLRS that started and stopped), detail 2 (same as 1, but second time), behind (1 GoPro performance), and the studio audio.
I found it SO much easier and, I dare say fun, doing it in X! Tung is….you have to actually know how to do it right. I used the Ripple Trainng Multi-Cam course for X and it made it completely understandable. A lot of it is about creating keywords (which are just like bins!) and prepping everything. Once you’ve properly done that, and created the multicam clip, you open it up in the able editor and you have everything in its own track, just like a timeline, in a stack and you can re-order them and everything. After you’ve got your clips in order, you open up the multi-cam clip in a project and start cutting in real time while using # keys or your mouse. After that, there’re some very cool, and so easy it’s a crime, tools to fine tune it!
You can sync by time code, audio, markers, and others. No XML export, no extra steps, and it worked awesome. In my case I sync’d up all od the live stuff first (by performance), then the studio audio.
I’m not using X full-time. Still on Legacy for most paying gigs and learning Premiere ans Avid. But I have been doing some gigs on X and the more I use it, the more I really like it. Haven’t tried the update from this week because I was in the edit for the live video.
Try Ripple Training! Huge help and they give you all kinds of stuff you might not’ve figured out on your own.
Hope that helped. Posted from iPad, please excuse typos!
Tony Brittan
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Thanks Tony,
The XML was for Pluraleyes. I figured out you can’t export from within the project which is weird. Unfortunately Pluraleyes failed to sync my footage as well. Heres the deal, I know how to keyword, and went through both Ripple and Larry Jordan’s training. If I had a constant 5 minute audio source as you did, I could sync no problem.
What I would like to be able to do is add new clips to the Angle editor and use a syncing function if possible. The reason being is I don’t have one continuous audio track but the each audio files overlaps the last. With the lack of bins, the key wording becomes a more tedious chore than using plural eyes. But since plural eyes failed I guess making in points manually is the only way. Final cut isn’t syncing large multiple audio sources for me that go to long.
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