James Cude
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Should be possible- have you tried the Blackmagic utility to set this up?
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You can only show one angle at a time in a multicam clip. So the easiest way to do what you want would be to duplicate the multicam clip, connect it above the multicam clip as a connected clip and then switch to the desired angle and dial down the opacity. Then you’ll have two instances of the same clip, showing different angles.
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There are different techniques to achieve this in FCPX. What I do is create a one frame gap at the head of the timeline. Then I connect my music track as a compound clip to this gap.
That gives you a piece of media that syncs to frame one of the primary storyline and you can still jump into the Compound Clip to adjust timing if it’s more than one piece of sound or music that you want to adjust while maintaining sync across the entire edit. It requires a slight change in mindset to think of sync as clip based rather than locked to a fixed track.
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Regarding the low light performance- I’d recommend asking that question on a Canon camera forum. Regarding ingest into FCPX, yes it’s supported directly.
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I would not suggest keeping two Events. You could just place the Library itself onto your External Drive. Then you could edit in Proxy mode with the proxies stored within the Library on your drive and then in Optimized/Original mode via Original media on your main system. To make this work you’d need to set your import preference to Import>Media Storage>Leave Files in Place.
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Aren’t the CR2 files raw stills and not video? If so, you should be able to open them in Preview and resave as TIFF.
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I haven’t seen the Kanex adaptor in action but I’d be kinda surprised if performance and reliability didn’t take a major hit going through that. If you really want to have USB and Thunderbolt connectivity- get a drive that has both. LaCie and GTECH both have some models with both interfaces.
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GTech or Promise would be my suggestions. I.e.:
https://www.promise.com/storage/raid_series.aspx?m=192®ion=en-global&rsn1=40&rsn3=47
or
https://www.g-technology.com/products/g-raid-thunderbolt
If interchangeability with other systems i.e. older Mac and PCs is not a big need, go with Thunderbolt instead of USB3.
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Hmm- I’d suggest getting a new VHS deck with better error correction (i.e. tracking). Or having someone at a dub house dub VHS to DV and then capture from DV. Analog dropouts are hard to get around.
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Check the GPU in the one you’re trading for. If you have the budget, selling the Mac Pro and buying a brand new 15″ Retina will serve you longer and faster though.