Steve Grant
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Nick… Thanks for your quick response. I’m still a little confused:
“multiclips dont hold effects through switching”… Do you mean that if I apply an effect (in this case, cut zoom) to a clip in a multiclip, that effect won’t “hold”/”stick” as soon as I make a switch between angles?
(If this is what you mean, I did not encounter that when I applied color correction, but maybe that’s a different kind of “effect” to which what you said doesn’t apply.)“you have to add the motion effect to a clip [in the] the viewer,
or in the timeline, then copy / paste it into the browser (a new bin is useful)”…—I was able to perform the cut zoom to the clip itself (not in a Sequence) in the Viewer, so thanks for that! However, since I was a little afraid to mess with the original clip, I Copied and Pasted it in the Browser; now I had two identically-named clips (“RightFixed”). But when I tried to re-name them, it changed the name of both of them (I now had two clips, both named “RightFixed(crop)”! One had the crop zoom and the other didn’t, but only by opening each in the Viewer could I see which was which… most inconvenient, but I can live with it. I changed them (both–no other choice) back to simply “RightFixed.”
—“or in the timeline”… only way to do that is to do it when the clip’s in a sequence, and since you can’t make multiclips out of sequences, doing it in the Timeline won’t help me in this case.
—“then copy / paste it into the browser (a new bin is useful)”… Huh? How do I Copy a clip from the Viewer into the Browser? And what’s a “bin”?
Final Cut Pro 7 “Advanced Beginner”
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I had a similar problem trying to edit a 4-angle multiclip, and it was driving me nuts. I’d been able to edit a 3-angle just fine in the past, but when I played the 4-angle in the Timeline, the 4 angles in the Viewer reverted to one (the active) and I couldn’t see the other 3 to switch angles. Aaaugh!
To resolve it, I went into User Preferences “General tab” and unchecked the following:
- “Limit real-time video to [default is 20MB/s]”
- “Report dropped frames during playback”
- “Abort ETT/PTB on dropped frames”
- “Abort capture on dropped frames”
I suspect it was one of the first two–or perhaps both in combination–that did it.
One other tip… Even after solving the 4-angle viewing problem, I still hit a wall in that after rolling for a few seconds the playback would bog down–start to hang and then grind to a halt. What solved that was Scratching two of the four cameras to a different physical drive (not just a different partition or volume on the same drive). Even with a RAID populated with four 2-TB, enterprise-class, 7200 rpm drives–connected to my ’09 MacBook Pro 15″ (8GB RAM, though only Core Two Duo 2-core processor) via Firewire 800–the 4-angle multiclip bogged down like this (though a 3-angle didn’t). I deleted the 4-angle multiclip, re-Scratched* two of the four clips to my internal hard drive (only standard 5400 rpm), re-created the multiclip, and now it plays fine indefinitely.
*I actually just copied the two already-imported (via FCP’s “Log and Transfer”) clips from the project’s “Capture Scratch” folder on the RAID to a folder on my internal drive using MacOS Finder windows, then used FCP’s “Reconnect Media” to point FCP there for those two clips instead of to their previous locations on the RAID. This saved having to actually re-import them in FCP.