[Bob Woodhead]

Well dang, Noah, that’s all you needed to say! I simply never thought of trying to expand the audio in the main timeline. Doh. Didn’t even bother watching the MacBreak. I’d been trying to work it backwards for some reason.

Easy As Pie.

OK, loving the multicam editor again. Hating my stupidity.

[Bob Woodhead]

Had a thought that maybe it’d be possible to detach audio from the angle that has multiple mono tracks, but that command is greyed out in the angle editor.

I suppose you could duplicate the angle, enabling only 1 audio channel in each duplicate. That’d be a total PIA editing.

As for my workaround of recording each mic to a different camera, suppose you need more than one open at a time? Fail again.

Annoying. Hope someone has a lightbulb for this.

[Bob Woodhead]

I don’t think screenshot will help explain. Let me see if I can clarify…

2 audio channels, lav mics, into one camera

3 camera interview setup (2 singles, one 2-shot)

cameras 2 & 3 just have scratch track audio

So cut video only in the multicam, audio is from the one camera that has the 2 lav mics, on discreet channels.

Issue; depending on the room, mic distance, etc, it can be necessary to “mute” one or the other mic channel in order to get the best sound from the other. (By mute, I mean dipping the level, cutting the track, etc.)

Problems: the multicam editor doesn’t allow you to target discreet audio tracks from an angle. Also, in the angle editor, with an angle that has multiple mono tracks, you cannot expand the audio into discreet tracks. On top of which, there’s no match frame into the angle editor! So even if you could access the individual audio tracks from a single angle, it’d be a real PIA to locate the parts you need to adjust.

There’s some other issues as well, but it’d just confuse the picture even further.

I posted in the hopes I’m missing something, because this really is a huge fail within X.

[Bob Woodhead]

To tack on to Joe’s suggestion, in the make multicam dialogue, Angle Assembly would then be set to Camera Name. I’ve always assigned camera angle in metadata instead, but it shouldn’t matter which you choose.

And if there’s an angle that is problematic for whatever reason, you can manually set a marker at a sync point on each clip in the mult, and then use that as the sync selection. I’ve needed to do that a couple of times in the past. Annoying, but it works well.

[Bob Woodhead]

I use a 2 drive RAID 1, with nothing-special SATA drives. It’s mirrored, so if one goes poof, just clone the other.

[Bob Woodhead]

I have heard that Blackmagic is buying Telsa to acquire their backup cam technology.

[Bob Woodhead]

If I get around to writing a script for this, I’ll use the keyword CRF in homage to the old Quantel term. Cutting Room Floor.

[Bob Woodhead]

Exactly this is why.

[Bob Woodhead]

As to HDD space, this is a broll library that often travels with me, so I try to keep it to a reasonable size, like under 4TB.

Bouncing libraries, it’d be a lot of file pushing just to delete maybe 1-5% of the total. And it’s something I’d like to do on a regular basis… add new footage that’s better than old stuff, delete old stuff while importing the new. More likely to keep up with it if it’s an easy process.

[Bob Woodhead]

Harrumph. I want the option to fail, spectacularly.

Maybe I’ll write an Applescript… takes as input an XML export from clips put in a “burn bag” keyword collection. parses the XML for “src name=foo”, then passes result to a Finder action that trashes the files.