[Craig Alan]

Yes. That I got from the get go. Though I was having trouble doing this as an entire track in the timeline. Not always but sometimes if i highlighted two clips never mind the entire multicam track, the inspector would not allow changes made to the channel selection. Thus I had to do this one clip at a time.

But I was confused why I needed to keep checking what audio was being used in each clip of the multicam.

I just ran another test. Opened the angle editor and muted the a1 and b1 that I want active. Went back to storyline. It’s muted. Made a change in storyline. Change was made in angle editor. So they are supposed to mirror each other. Like you said.

But when I edit from the angle viewer, if I choose audio or A/V for one of the angles that has audio muted in the storyline and the angle editor, then all four active channels of that angle are edited into the timeline.

Bug?

A seems to honor the a3 and a4 being muted. Though I know earlier that kept changing too.

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks Jeremy,

Just tested this. In the angle editor FC has made three long clips out of A B and C cams, on tracks, and synced. I can highlight one and choose which channels are on or off in the inspector. I do this for all three. On A cam I engage a1 and a2 and turn off a3 and a4. On the others I mute all audio. I go back to my timeline with the angle viewer open. If I switch an A cam clip for a B cam clip all four channels show up edited into the clip. Now when I first set up the multicam clip, I selected the A cam to be A/V and the others to be just Video. But I guess that no longer applies. I need to select the Video icon in the angle viewer before applying the edit or else FC keeps changing the audio channels from the ones I selected even though I just selected these in the angle editor.

That said if what you said would work it should have edited a B angle clip with no audio since in the angle editor I muted the audio track. In any case I get what was wrong. The icons in the multicam viewer got changed.

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[Craig Alan]

You nailed it Bill. Didn’t know they changed that with 10.1.2 since I am now sitting on my first two cards that need importing since the update. Just thought that if you are careful with a card copy in the finder (or yes you can have FC create a camera card archive), FC takes care of the rest with a time date stamp, which is part of the metadata generated by the camera. You can definitely set custom names for your clips with our cams but since until now (further irony?) the card copies were not read by FC until it was rewrapped. So until FC renamed them with time and date, I couldn’t really see the clips. Now, however, FC can read P2 clips natively with no rewrapping. And yeah, if I open the import window, I can see the original names along with the rest of the cam-generated metadata. No question anyone who complained about FC auto renaming did so because they made the effort to set up names on their clips in cam. The original names are pretty useless if not custom set.

My take on why people would want to name the clips on the cards themselves instead of just allowing FC to do it, since it’s way easier on a computer than with a camera, is that they want to keep archive copies of these card clips just as they are, so that they can use them in any program going forward. And they want that naming to be consistent in all copies of that media. Or maybe on sets where they shoot on a lot of cards they need to do this for organizational puposes. Maybe they even use third party programs to initially log in these cards. Panasonic has one. CAT DV does this. If you already had it logged and named, it would be double work to have to do it again in FC.

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks Jeremy,

That’s what i did when I started. Just repeat these steps to get back on track? But even this leaves cam A a3 and a4 on which don’t want. Each cam records to 4 channels.

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[Craig Alan]

When I started the edit, I selected cam a exclusively for the audio. On first pass this worked but somewhere along the line this stopped working and now each edit the clip audio has to be selected again. Also even though cam A was set as the audio for all clips, I did not see the option to choose which channels coming from cam a would be used. Where do I look for this?

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[Craig Alan]

Removing Final Cut Pro X in OS X 10.9 Mavericks

In Finder, choose Applications from the Go menu.
Locate the Final Cut Pro application and drag it to the Trash.
In Finder, hold down the Option key and choose Library from the Go menu.
In the Library folder that opens, open the Application Support folder. Move the Final Cut Pro folder to the Trash.
Return to the Library folder and open the Caches folder. Move the “com.apple.FinalCut” folder to the Trash.
Return to the Library folder and open the Preferences folder. Move the following files to the Trash:

com.apple.FinalCut.LSSharedFileList.plist
com.apple.FinalCut.plist
com.apple.FinalCut.UserDestinations.plist

Reinstalling Final Cut Pro X

From the Mac App Store
Follow the steps from earlier in this article to remove Final Cut Pro X.
Open the Mac App Store.
Click the Purchases button in the Mac App Store toolbar.
Sign in to the Mac App Store using the Apple ID you first used to purchase Final Cut Pro X.
Look for Final Cut Pro X in the list of purchased applications in the App Store. If you don’t see FInal Cut Pro X in the list, make sure that it’s not hidden. See Mac App Store: Hiding and unhiding purchases for more information.
Click Install to download and install Final Cut Pro X.

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[Craig Alan]

Again if you create a folder in the finder for each card copy you can name them something that will be helpful upon import and solve your overwrite issue. DOG POUND 6-6-14 B-roll.

Another thing you might consider for these cams is there are free batch renaming programs for OS X. That way after you copy the files to the folder you could actually batch rename all the files within it.

Glad FCP X date and time stamps them for you that is huge help.

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[Craig Alan]

Could you please break that down a little for me. How do I rename an audio component and what’s the advantage over the current name of Channel A a1 a2? I clearly don’t get roles and need to work on that. But I still want to solve this problem in whatever manner is best within FC. What I am experiencing as I edit this piece (a multicam shoot of a performance) is that every time I switch a shot from one angle to another, I have to check in the inspector to see that the proper channels are selected – every new edit they are not. I want all edits to just be channel A a1 and a2. The first time I did this was tedious enough as is using the down arrow key to go to every clip and uncheck 4 boxes in the inspector for every clip. There has to be a better way.

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[Craig Alan]

In the finder, as long as you are copying files to a different folder there is no conflict. In FC there are many ways to name them, tag them, keyword them, etc. Most cameras will stamp them with a date time reference so I’m not sure why you are getting identical names. Maybe hit your Canon manual and figure out a better way to have your clips named within the cam?

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[Craig Alan]

Yeah, some missing features are just missing. I really like the way X reveals in browser in that you not only see the clip but a filmstrip with the used portion highlighted. Now do the equivalent in reverse so i can quickly decide whether my current need for that same clip would be better, does more harm than good, or can be used in both locations.

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