[Craig Alan]

500 gb is not massive. Get a thunderbolt raid. Check out owc if u can’t afford a Pegasus. A single drive is not going to cut a feature w comfort. And max out your ram. Make sure to leave a lot of headroom on your media drive. Past 75% or so will slow things down.

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[Craig Alan]

James,

I get your original feature request and get the two options available as of this update. But if you reveal in browser and then replace edit, you are going upstream right? That is any changes you made to the clip are now lost. A compound clip would work but liters your browser with extra clips that need to be named and organized and further, unless you are careful with assigning them as a new master, any changes you make to one use ripples to all others. My feature request would be to allow a save to browser of any clip without making it a compound. And a reveal in timeline of any clip in the browser. I’ve reached a comfort zone with basic editing in FC but when I get past that and need to create layers (post track work flow), I start to get uncomfortable or at least still wonder what the best work flow would be.

I’m not a full time editor and it just feels at times that I spend more time managing FC organization than I’d like. Compounds do seem to be the answer to many of these needs but the parent child thing feels overly complex to me. Most of the time when I create one I’d really prefer if it wash;t saved to the browser as its own mini-timeline.

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[Craig Alan]

Except u end up with a compound clip in your browser and I keep hearing reports that too many compounds can slow things down and even contribute to corruption. Not sure if that is the latest understanding but it gives me pause.

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[Craig Alan]

Could u put the clip on a lower layer

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[Craig Alan]

[Robin S. Kurz] “But again, that requires your having entered the appropriate camera and angle names first, so that FCP knows what belongs together.”

I gave each camera (card) a name based on angle. I called one HA for high angle, one was WA for wide shot and one I called audio since it was the cam that received the feed from the mixer.

Thanks Robin.

Will this naming be ok or does it need to be a naming convention that FC recognizes. I thought you just select the different angles you want to include in the multi cam viewer?

[Robin S. Kurz] “I personally have never bothered with actual clip names, since there is so much more data to go by that the names have gotten completely irrelevant for me. But you might look into creating/using Smart Collections based on any given metadata that is relevant for grouping the footage as needed.”

I just find naming in numeric order to time helpful for me too keep track. It is actually a duplication of metadata that exist in the columns of the browser already. The picture I posted was a keyword collection. Do you feel smart collections are better for this type of organization? Could you give me an example of a smart collection and naming scheme for the different angles from a days shoot?

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks James, gives me hope. That was my experience too when I did the last multi cam but I didn’t have any pauses where cams were turns off and on at different times. But they synced up great so I guess this should be more of the same. I’ve just never worked with this much footage before and don’t want to have a poorly designed workflow come back and bite me. The first day’s shoot with a backup of the cards came to 750GB.

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[Craig Alan]

[Ty Ford] “The placement may be part of the problem and how you rout the cable back through the clip.”

Could you post a picture of proper routing? It’s a single loop, right?

[Ty Ford] “I always use a 2″ squared piece of G-tape to secure the mic cable inside the garment.”

And another pic where you tape the cable in relation to the clip?

These would be helpful. I try to get the cable to be still and the mike a bit off any direct contact with clothing but always feel like it’s trial and error.

Do you use the neopax belt or something similar for the transmitter?

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[Craig Alan]

[Ty Ford] “If you had these https://tinyurl.com/p3flztr and connected them to the bar, you’d be much better off.”

Ty, the link just opens BHphoto, no specific product.

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[Craig Alan]

will this do the trick?

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/758976-REG/Rycote_037323_037323_Microphone_Stereo_Bar.html/prm/alsVwDtl

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[Craig Alan]

Brian, he’s shooting with a sub $1000 camcorder. I doubt he can afford an audio tech. I would seriously consider using a separate recorder. You’ll get way better audio. Cheap camcorders have crappy sound. Do a search on google for recording a telephone interview and another for syncing audio with video in movie maker.

I’m not saying this meets your needs but there are many others:

https://www.ehow.com/how_7653593_sync-video-windows-movie-maker.html

https://www.therenegadewriter.com/2014/01/15/the-ultimate-freelance-writers-guide-to-recording-interviews/

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