Michael Sanders
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I was having similar issues (lots of beach balling etc) and disabled a couple of FX factory plugins and it does seem to be running better.
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Claude
Ill confess I’ve never watched a lacrosse game in my life so have no idea of the play.
But I honestly think having both cameras rolling all the time (as you say a clip per quater) synced in a multicam will give you far more options than realise in the edit.
As someone who’s sat there editing multicams where a camera has decided to stop rolling (for tape or battery changes) it can be really frustrating. Switch the angles on in the viewer and cut away on the primary storyline.
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Nice write up Bill.
I’ve done a few of these in my time (quite knackering for me as I usually shoot quite a bit then do the edit overnight). Last time I did one was on FCP X 10.0.1 and it was quite hard work with all the bugs but still definitely faster than FCP7.
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That’s fine Patrice – well behind as usual. Thanks :-)))
Michael Sanders
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For a start – as a veteran of many multi cam shoots including sports, music performances, debates etc. I would say starting and stoping at will is a recipe for disaster – I can’t think why you would want to do it as apart from anything else you are going to miss the action. But I’m sure you have your reasons.
Timecode of some description will save your life, and hours of time. There are a number of ways to do it if you don’t have professional cameras with timecode input.
The simplest way is to film a clock when the cameras start rolling. You can download an app onto your iPhone called “Timecode Buddy” that will display timecode generated from the internal clock. If you have a timecode buddy wifi master, it sets up a wifi network and any phone with the app can read TC from the master – a quick shot of that at the start at least shows the offset.
The other option is use a timecode generator such as TC buddy or Lockit but feed it into an audio channel of the cameras – there is software that reads TC from the audio track. The other option is to use a radio mic TX and two RX’s and feed the same audio (something like a song that lasts for the entire duration) and then use FCP X multicam to sync by audio. Crowd atmos probably won’t work.
As for importing.. Import camera A into the event. Rename all camera A’s clips and set a camera angle (1). Then apply a keyword such as logged to all the clips. Set the browser to show all clips without keywords. Import Camera B’s clips to the same event, rename and label the angle. If you had more than one camera and were about to add more cameras you would now apply the keyword “logged” and repeat the process.
Michael Sanders
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In the stupid answer section: Have you checked the search box to make sure you haven’t got a search set up for something silly like “a”?
Michael Sanders
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This is old news but still makes me laugh when people say FCP X is iMovie Pro – yeah? How many amateurs shoot Log C on an Alexa?
Michael Sanders
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Totally agree with you there Jeremy.
I can see what Apple are doing – they are trying to make it easy for non editors to use it. But sadly that goes against how some of us like to work.
I think Apple are listening and I really hope they go just that bit further with the next version.
Until then I think if you create optimised media after importing and creating proxies then it might just work.
Michael Sanders
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Ah my mistake – I’ve heard him talk about 5D in interviews. And I know it wasn’t shot in the UK but that’s not what I said. He did most of the post and VFX at home.
Michael Sanders
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What’s working for me is external media.
I create a folder on my main RAID for each project, I then create two subfolders: “Rushes” and “Added Media” The FCP Project lives in here as well. I import rushes to the rushes folder and back up camera cards via Shotput Pro. All additional material goes into “Added Media”.
When the project is finished, the rushes folder gets deleted, the project gets run through X wiper and then I have a nice small folder to archive.
Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor