[Tony Sarafoski]

Thanks T

[Tony Sarafoski]

Don i’ve been using the multicam feature a fair bit the past few weeks and have faced similar problems. What i do is start by creating the multicam clip, add and sync any additional angles, and finally place the multicam clip in a primary storyline.

Next I re-open the MC in the angle editor, select all the clips, copy, go back to my timeline (placing the playhead at the beginning), and paste. Essentially what this does is places all your clips (from within the multicam) as connected clips within storylines. Now to break apart the audio from these clips, you’ll need to lift them out of their storylines.

Providing you followed these steps correctly, you should now be left with your multicam clip still sitting in the primary storyline, and a buch of connected clips. Delete whatever connected clips you don’t need, and your good to go.

As you’ve discovered in order to ripple delete sections out, you’ll need to position your playhead, press command+a, to select all, then command+b to blade all.

Hope that all makes sense.

[Tony Sarafoski]

James not sure I’ve understood your question, are you trying to replace a clip in a storyline with a gap clip? If so select the clip, and on a MBP press FN+Delete.

Hope that helps.

[Tony Sarafoski]

Gap clips only work or can only be used in the primary or any storyline.

[Tony Sarafoski]

Bret & Alice, If I may add in my two cens worth.

Bret is 100% right in saying it’s probably best to sync your audio to your interviews prior multicaming, however event though you haven’t done so already, you can still use these “keyworded” selects.

Let me try explain :

In the screen grab below, first select your external audio recording and added it to a multicam clip.

Then add a new angle, and drop the selects in that track.

Making sure your clips are selected, click on the triangle and choose sync selection to monitoring angle.

When the processing is done, your selected clips should sync in place.

Hope that makes sense.
Cheers – Tony

[Tony Sarafoski]

Paul, confirmation question.

I currently run a 4TB CalDigit VR2 drive which I connect to my 17″ MBP via the ExpressCard/34 slot. If I upgrade to the 15″ Retina, from what I understand I should then purchase a LaCie eSATA Hub which then becomes my gateway between my MPBr and CalDigit drive.

Currently having this drive running through my ExpressCard/34 slot, I seem to only be reaching read speeds of approximately 100-120MB/s, & write speeds of about 80-90MB/s.

I’m curious to know if I run this drive through the LaCie eSATA Hub, and connect it to my 17″ MBP via Thunderbolt, would I be more likely to reach read/write speeds closer to it’s max which are 250MB/s?

[Tony Sarafoski]

Jim, I recently tackled a similar project where the client requested to view the raw footage with timecode. This is what I did.

I started by adding all the raw footage in a project, in the primary storyline, then connected a timecode generator above.

I then exported my project timeline as a private YouTube clip using the built in YouTube uploader. I also found choosing SD as the output was more than sufficient and had no complains from the client.

After receiving their timecodes, I then used Michaels method (Control+P) to type in the timecodes, and used Command+B to blade my in/out points.

The only downside to this method is you then need to select the clip, press Shift+F, and F to add a favorite, or Shift+F, and Command+K to add a keyword, which in return marks your selects i your event.

As a test I tried placing the clips from the project in a compound in the event, however I found a bug.

Here what I did:

Selected all the clips + connected timecode from the project, and added the in a compound in the event. This then allows you to use the event browser to skim, mark in/outs, add favorites or keyword, but then when you append a favorite to your timeline, the timecode get overwritten.

Must be a bug?

[Tony Sarafoski]

Michael,

Just to add a visual aspect to all this.

What Jeremy is saying, the next time you start a new event, choose optimize media on import

If you then check your event folder, you should have two folders, Original Media & Transcoded Media.

Providing you don’t choose “Copy files to Final Cut Event folder” on import

your Original Medoa folder will only hold a linked or reference file of your imported media.

This way theres no need to delete or manager your event at the finder level.

Just keep in mind, having linked files in the Original Media folder means you’ll need to take extra steps to archive the event. But thats another post 😉

[Tony Sarafoski]

David, if syncing works using create multi-cam, then simply select all the clips within the multi-cam editor (cmd+A), then paste back in your project.

The only downside is that all your clips will be placed in a storyline, but you can always “lift” out of a storyline if you wish.

It’s not ideal, but certainly a workaround 😉

[Tony Sarafoski]

Michael, just to add to Jeremy’s post.

Do you mean project as an event?

When a new event is created, FCPX creates a folder within, called original media.

When you import media, you’ll have the choice to either have FCPX create a copy of the imported media in your original media folder, or if you instead un-ticked this option, then FCPX creates “linked” files to the original media, which means deleting this folder would result in your media going offline. 

Also keep in mind that you can choose to optimize your media on import. Optimizing is what bloats the event because ProRes 422 files are created. These files are found in the Final Cut Event -Transcoded Media – Optimized.

To reduce the bloat of your event, I’d suggest deleting this folder, providing you no longer need the optimized files.

I would not be deleting the original folder, as this is the folder the event references too.

If anything I’d stronglyy suggest you practice this on a test event before you stuff something up and totally regret it 😉