[Justin Crowell]

I’m with Tangier here. I haven’t had a single 100% successful import from 5D II card archives. But, then again, I’ve always been using the import dialogue. Perhaps next time I’ll drag directly into the event. The benefit of the import dialogue to me is that I can stipulate things like “create keyword from folder” or “create proxy/optimized media.” When you drag directly into an event, does it automatically copy that media to the event folder? Because that’s another behavior I like to control.

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[Justin Crowell]

Don, that’s very useful advice…but I’m not sure it solves the problem at hand, which is that the clips in a multicam clip synced by audio are placed according to timecode, resulting in gaps if the shoot wasn’t continuous. Am I misreading you?

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[Justin Crowell]

Shouldn’t matter for Adobe. Premiere uses OpenCl as well as CUDA and Pr CC can use multiple GPUs.

What about After Effects? Isn’t that only CUDA? For now, at least….

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That’s a really interesting thought…Something similar I had considered was taking the audio from the camera getting the lav and exporting that as one long AIFF. THEN, I’ll sync to that. Again, not sure how FCP would deal with any length differences between cameras–probably would make an extra track in the multiclip, or maybe trim?

That is along the lines of what you are suggesting, right? I guess I add an extra step for myself the way I’m thinking.

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[Justin Crowell]

Yeah, that’s kind of what I figured. I’ve been editing it in the timeline, just skimming through and dropping cuts. It unfortunately makes this work take a long enough amount of time given how much footage I have that I’ll probably have to switch back to 7 to do it “efficiently.” Seems odd to me that I can’t tell it to ignore timecode (seems like “angle clip ordering” should do that).

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I’m honestly a bit confused about what you’re telling me, here. I’m not asking FCPX to do some crazy thing–I’m actually asking for it to do less automation. I’ve used the multicam before. Only for continuous stuff, so this wasn’t an issue.

I’m syncing from TWO cameras. Same frame-rate, same codec. Audio is clear, easily synced. I labeled my angles in the info inspector. Is there a way I don’t know about to tell it which camera will provide my base?

I’m not expecting some perfect solution. I’m fine with the need for more configuration. I’m just trying to do something that FCP7 or Premiere + PluralEyes would make pretty simple. I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why that would be unreasonable….

Then you can ADD tracks in either batches (or one by one as needed) – setting the sync process to whatever that particular clip or group needs.

Not sure I understand…are you saying I can add tracks to multiclips?? Or maybe I’m supposed to sync up my clips in pairs, and then pull those in as multiclips? Or can I sync on the timeline or something?

I’m trying to speed up my workflow, which is why I came to X. I have loads of shoots like this, and scanning through and finding cuts when there are 20 per interview and I’ve done 15 interviews in a day gets really time consuming and tedious.

I should add that I DO find this timecode approach potentially useful. I just want the option to not have it there if the situation calls for that…

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[Justin Crowell]

If it helps any, when I try to do “synchronize clips” instead of making a new multiclip, it doesn’t work right–clips that were shot linearly are laid above each other. This is really frustrating–there’s just way too much footage for me to sort through and edit out the time gaps. I’m just trying to give the client some quick review footage.

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[Justin Crowell]

That’s what I figured.
I selected all my clips, right clicked, went to “New multicam clip” …
I’ve tried different options in the drop-downs:
Angle assembly: Auto and Camera Angle
Angle Clip Ordering: Auto and Content created
Angle Synchronization: Auto and Content created

“Use audio for synchronization” is checked. I’m really stumped!

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[Justin Crowell]

Gotcha…the multiclip editor is adding in pauses with NO content. It’s just two cameras–they aren’t synced to external audio, only internal. Screenshot below:

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[Justin Crowell]

My apologies on the slow response…been waiting until another project is ready to go into X. My usage in activity monitor is very low. When I’m having the problem (which is always), ram is at 1.5GB and CPU is <3%. VERY frustrating. It appears to be much much worse I have a fair amount of footage in an event.

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