Ron James
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Ben, is there any reason why you brought the clips in uncompressed? This has got to be the problem. However, I haven’t personally used uncompressed yet, so I’m not sure what to expect so far as multiclip performance. Are you able to recap those clips using regular DV25? Or are the tapes just too messed up to deal with?
Just for kicks, try doing some multiclip cutting the old fashioned way, by layering them in the timeline (scaling your four clips to 25% each and dragging one into each corner) and razoring them as you go. I’m curious to see if your performance would be any better.
Otherwise, I’d recommend starting a new thread so that someone with experience in uncompressed can help you out. Sorry I can’t help you out more! Maybe try the method above, until you get this sorted out, just so you don’t lose anymore time. Another idea…you could recompress the clips back to DV25?
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Hey Ben…
No, I don’t think angle numbers will make a difference. That’s just something FCP can look to when it’s putting your multiclip together for you, to help organize the clips.
Do this: select one of the problem source clips in your browser and hit Command-9 to get the properties. See if you can just copy it and paste it into a posting, just so I (or anyone else) can see the parameters. It sounds like something isn’t matching the sequence and FCP is doing extra work converting. Just a guess, but at least we can rule it out.
Something is definitely out of whack, though. Your tower should easily be able to handle a four stream multiclip.
Does anyone else have any idea?
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Ben, can you copy and paste the item properties for one or more of your clips? It could be there just not matching the sequence settings.
What method did you use to create the multiclip? The ‘create multiclip’ or ‘create multiclip sequence’? I’d try the latter and choose the option to create a sequence. That way, a sequence should be created with settings that match the clips. I’ve never been able to get that method to work (it would create the multiclip, but wouldn’t, for some reason, create the sequence for me) but it works for other people.
Paste your clip settings, though, if you don’t mind.
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[Ben the Camera Guy] “.I took all 4 clips, synched them to a single sound source, and exported them all as quicktime movies using the default settings and creating stand alone video clips…then I reimported them into fcp and created a multiclip”
Ahhh!! Sorry, Ben, I didn’t even notice this in your original post. My eyes are getting old.
I would definitely go to the originals.
Now you say that the camera shooters “stopped and started” their cameras. This sounds proper to me, that they were doing free-run timecode so that their cameras would sync up later on. Is this what you mean?
If this is what you mean, then go back to the originals, cue up to the beginning of your first clip and wind back about five seconds (if possible). Enter all your info in the Log & Capture (reel number; clip name; angle if possible). Go into your User Preferences and make sure that FCP is set to NOT abort at timecode breaks and that it will create a new clip. When you’re ready, play the clip and hit ‘Capture Now’. Just let FCP handle it from their. It will roll over the spots where the TC changes and create new clips for you. Let it go until you’ve got all the clips from that reel and then do the same for the next one. Don’t forget to enter all your proper logging info first. You might want to do a couply spot checks on TC, too, but I’ve found FCP 100% reliable doing this for me in the past.
Hope that all makes sense.
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Ben, have you tried re-setting up the multiclip, just for the heck of it? Do your sequence settings all match your source material?
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I’m not at my workstation right now, so I’m not sure if you still get a ‘fit to window’ option in the multiclip window, but make sure everything is fitting inside the window view and not being cut off. Maybe it does this automatically, I’m not sure.
Also, go into your the multiclip submenu and try different views (try setting it to fewer just to see if it makes a difference).
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But the files are joined, still, aren’t they? If you open the first one, won’t it play through the rest of them?
Either way, if your timecodes match (match the cameras and shoot in free-run) then you’ll have an easy time with multiclip. Are you able to do free-run?
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No, this shouldn’t be happening. I’ve used multiclip recently on a sinlge G5 1.8 and it played fine. First check your window size settings, then check your scratch disk settings to make sure you haven’t captured to your system disk by accident.
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Oh, the TABS! Yes, that would be nice. Still, I love finally being able to cycle windows.
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Somebody posted this a little while back:
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