Bruce Sharpe
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Creating a QuickTime reference movie should be fast and will not create huge files. It’s the only way I know to get sensible multiclips in FCP when there are many clips on one track. As noted earlier, you can’t have any filters or resizing going on or it will do a full render. This video tutorial shows how.
Bruce
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You’ve got a couple of options, if I understand your situation correctly. (1) You can use Final Cut to automatically create subclips based on the start/stop points of your long clips. (2) You can use the razor tool to cut your clips at those points.
Either way, you can use PluralEyes to make a multiclip from the sequence afterward. This works in the latest version of PluralEyes but perhaps didn’t if you tried it a long time ago.
Bruce
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“…you should probably change the settings of the compressor to best suit each speakers style…”
Determining those settings and then applying them piece by piece to the recording is a pretty tedious operation. The Levelator is completely automatic and works very well in a wide variety of situations. It’s free and easy to use, so I’d recommend you try it out and see if you like the results.
Bruce
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I’m jumping in a little late here, but you can definitely get reliable, drift-free sync between the 7D and external audio, as long as the external audio has reasonable clock accuracy. Like many others on this thread I highly recommend the Zoom H4n. We have measured it and it can hold sync to within one video frame for 100 minutes.
There is possibly another issue that is causing the drift you are seeing. Final Cut has a quirk that causes drift but can be avoided with a little care. You just have to make sure that the frame rate of the Easy Setup you are using matches the frame rate of your clips. If it doesn’t, change your Easy Setup, restart Final Cut and create your sequence again.
On the Canon 5D the drift is known as the 99.9% problem. On the 7D it is the 100.1% problem. The solution is the same. See this blog post and video tutorial for more information.
Bruce Sharpe
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The original poster’s question is not about how to sync the clips but how to get a multiclip with one angle per camera instead of one angle per clip.
Since the cameras were all jam-synched he can use SequenceLiner or PluralEyes to do the sync. And he seems to be past that. The problem is that Final Cut treats each clip as a separate angle in the multiclip. He wants three angles, corresponding to three cameras, but he’s getting eight angles, one for each of the clips.
The only way I know around this is to take the synced sequence and make a QuickTime reference movie for each camera. Then use those ref movies as the input to a multiclip. It’s a little fiddly but it works well.
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Final Cut treats each clip as a separate angle. Annoying, but that’s the way it is. I work around it by creating reference movies from the tracks that PluralEyes syncs and making a multiclip from them (again with PluralEyes). See this blog post for details.
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