David Powell
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If you use plural eyes you can do it. Youtube Vince Rocca. He has a great video on how to do this. Afterwards you will decide that you never want to use Avid for dlsr multi cam unless its for reality show with a budget for AE’s.
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You could animate it with paint by drawing two half circle masks that shut. The same thing could be done in Avid FX.
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Doesn’t really matter so long as you have organized to the extent of which I’ve already laid out. The keywording is just to help keep the angles separated. Each angle being named in the inspector is what really matters.
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Jim, When you import your footage, do so by creating a keyword for each angle. Drag all the footage from angle 1 in the finder into the “angle 1” keyword. Now “select all” then go to the inspector and name the angle. Repeat the same with all other angles that need to be synched including the sound (as a separate angle). Now at the event level select all of the footage and create a multi clip and select the option that separates them by angle name.
If the sound is decent then they should sync up with no problem, and the names will reflect in your angle editor as well as your multicam monitor when you’re editing.
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I am similiar with how I use shortcuts. My Avid Keyboard is very customized and I try and keep my FCP and FCPX keyboard as similar as possible. That being said, Avid is mode based which makes the keyboard more efficient imo, so that when you are in CC mode or Multicam mode you can switch from 4 up to 9 up and the keyboard setup itself will change. Other NLEs require more command programming. The X keyboard is extremely customizable but it is an extremely Mouse driven program. The trim tools aren’t as slick as Avid or Premiere CC. I have the transport on the left hand side and keep one hand on the mouse at all time, funny enough, something I learned from reading “Avid Agility” though I didn’t find it as helpful in Avid as I do in FCPX.
Once you start stacking vid clips, there are no shortcuts to control which layer of video you want to affect. Its something I hope Apple changes.
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I misstated that that there. Yes prores works very well. All of the compressed camera formats choke it even for making selects in the source monitor.
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This is a most excellent reading Michael. Thank you for making this available!
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Well you can slow mo but you have no option for optical flow. You basically have to match frame to the multiclip, record the tc from the event browser, then go into the angle editor, type in the tc, copy the range of the original clip, paste it back on your timeline and add slomo. Same process if you want to stabilize. Quite the pita.
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I’m an Avid and FCX user. There are feature in both software that might speed up someones workflow but another Editor has no need for it. For instance, I cut projects where I have to multi cam dslr’s. This is a nightmare in Avid because you can not multi clip through black as you can in every other software. However, if you’re shooting a reality tv show, the multi-group function in Avid is needed. Not to mention you can mix frame rates in FCPX multi-clip. The X drawback is you cannot finalize multi-clip edits and you can’t matchframe back to the original clip, so you lose time here if you need to stabilize or do a slo-mo affect.
Another is Avid chokes on everything that is not dnx. If you don’t do any small time video production then you may never notice. But Avid has priced their software so as to make it accessible to small time shop people who may take in Prosumer footage like C100, FS100 etc. In my experience, I have to transcode immediately. Trying to even play through it to sub clip crashes Avid.
Here’s a small one that’s huge to me. You can scrub through interviews in FCPX at 3x the speed without losing any pitch. If you are looking for soundbites you tripled your efficiency of that process.
You can make adjustment to audio and video while the your timeline is playing. Actually you can do anything in the interface while the timeline is playing. Once you get used to this in FCPX you really hate that Avid can’t do it. And you realize that you have to hit play more times in a day than you should. Again this sounds small but its not in terms of moving fast.
The proxy/online workflow in X so easy. Its stupid. Now Avid’s is far more flexible which always opens the door for complications but at the same time more possibilities. It is also far more rigid. And I think that is the difference of Avid and the competing NLE’s. If you don’t need Avid’s heavy features FCPX can work a lot faster for you for certain productions. It really is the utility vehicle vs the light truck analogy.
That being said, FCPX’s trimming SUCKS compared to Avid. This is where all the time you gained in X is lost. If you are really adept in Avid’s trim functions, you can burn through changes at lightspeed compared to FCPX. If you’ve moved from FCP to X this won’t bother you as much as FCP7’s trim mode sucked compared to Avid’s as well.
As much as I have grown to love fcp’s key wording, I hate the fact that I cannot float bins (keyword collections) and there is total lack of interface customizing. Also I like to use bins as a relational value to other clips, so that when I matchframe back to the original clip, it gets me back to the clips that were in relationship to that clip. You can’t really work this way in X. You have to remember how you have tagged the clip and search for it only in that way. It only lets you matchback to the clip as it relates to every clip in the project which isn’t cool.
I’ve used FCP 7 and Avid MC for years, and have been using X for a year now. I like having both Avid and X. There are projects that you don’t want to go near Avid with and vice versa. If you only had one software, than you’d have to go with Avid as there is nothing in Avid you can’t do. X is not fully featured yet and may never be as a standalone software. That is fine by me. Its a nice tool for specific workflows where Avid is just to rigid, mainly fast turnaround stuff.
The great thing is that X works so differently, that you can easily bounce back and forth from X to Avid if you set you keyboard up properly in X (I do a left hand transport with all other functions matching my Avid keyboard). This is not true for me bouncing back and forth from Avid to FCP7 or Premiere.
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Update, the C100 footage relinked in the new sequence as it did in the old. Funny thing is it just kind’ve did it itself as I was typing the post. However, I’m getting the same problem. The C100 footage now freezes me into the beach ball of hell And on the timeline the clips Frame poster is scrambled. The thumbnail in the bin appears fine where the clip relinked. I can’t click on it to see what it looks like in the source monitor because of the freeze.