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Workflow – 4 cam shoot, 9 tracks of audio
Hi,
I’m curious and looking for some input from the slew of professionals here at the Cow. 🙂
I was just on a 4 camera shoot (a cooking show) and I’m now getting into the edit. We had everyone (9 people) on wireless lavs, and I was delivered 9 audio tracks from the sound guys. What’s a good workflow when syncing up everything? Should I have all the tracks on my timeline so I can control each and everyone one, or should I nest the 9 audio tracks?
thanks!
Lisa -
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Hi Lisa,
Personally I would pick one shot (probably the wide shot, let’s call it Camera 1) as a ‘master’ and merge the 9 audio tracks with it. You will be left with Camera 1 video + 9 audio tracks (+ any audio already attached to the Camera 1 file). Try to avoid nesting.
You can then edit the 4 different angles as a multiclip using all of the audio from Camera 1. Leave the fine tuning of any sound editing until the end.
This would be my preferred approach but pulling this off smoothly is dependent on the 4 video angles all being shot as single takes. If there are pauses in the video but no pauses in audio then this will take some extra effort. Let me know if this is the case and I’ll describe my method.
All the best,
Alex ElkinsSalad Daze Films – Freshly Tossed
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Check out Pluraleyes. Very handy little app for syncing multiple tracks in FCP.
-Andy George
Senior Editor
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You can see how I did something similar here:
https://www.macvideo.tv/editing/features/index.cfm?articleid=3200691
Jeremy
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