[Mike Flippin]

I agree with Ben for the most part. The stacking method works best & offers much more creative flexibility over the MultiClip feature because there are always gonna be “dead spots” where nothing from any take looks good at a particular TC & you can slip a clip in there, and, there are always gonna be a few “hot” spots where the action or whatever is killer & you have to use it, so you can slip it in somewhere else. Because the nature of music is pretty repetitive, and with hed/close shots that dont show actual fingers of guitar players, there are a lot of cool clips that can be put almost anywhere… as long as they are in “beat-Sync”… I do that all the time & no one ever knows… and you cant do that with multi clip… MC only lets you show any part of each clip at the actual TC point… and while that works alot of the time, you will be surprised how much you will “slide” clips around… keep the flexibility & use the stack method… but stay on top of it as wit can get overwhelming.

Herse my process to further demonstrate… Also, check out my most recent video on youtube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmS4keLLEr4 – , already has almost 130, 000 views & a 5 star rating. You can see how my technique looks in final.
In particular, the drum roll is a “slip” clip, as well as many, many others…. see if you can tell.

I have edited dozens of HDV Music Videos with about12-18 takes of the performance, plus various spot closeups of guitar solos, etc… in special locations, and of course, the narative (the story shots that will wrap around in the performance).

I start like Ben and stack up all performance tracks in a sequence I call “Sync_Master” in a particular order so they are sync’d up (V1 is the first long shot, V2 would be 2nd long on the dolly, V3 3rd long on dolly/gimble, V4 medium dolly pan, V5 Med Dolly Pan & Crash, etc… moving in closer as you move up in the track numbers… just makes it easier to know where you are later on. also, the solos are usually just the solo, & I drop those in place & sync, since they dont have the start count.

Then, I copy a;; the tracks & paste into a new Seq… called “First Cut” … this leaves all the full length sync’d clips in place on the Sync_Master for future use.

I run through each track solo & cut out everything than I dont like & know I wont use, leaving just the “Choice” cuts. When finished, I have just the best clips and everything else is cut oput… I watch it & see what I have, turning on & off tracks to get a good idea.

Then, I start fine tuning , adjusting to the beat untill its all tight.

And here is the IMPORTANT part… you will be able to grab clips from other parts of the song to fill in any gaps where you is either nothing, or, to use really cool parts from other takes… this is really easy when you use the stack method.

Then, I tighten up all the narative to all the inserts are tight & nice.

Then I copy all the cluts from all the tracks from the “Firts Cut” and paste into the @nd Cut sequence. Then I drag all the clips down to just 2-3 tracks so its more maneagable, but allowing me some flexibility on areas of difficulty or something (there are always a few of those spots where just not sure or happy with yet).

Then I skip 2 tracks up & paste start pasting in the Narative clips that tell the story, and adjust them.

Then you play around with it for a while longer & your done.!

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