Tony Sarafoski
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Sandeep,
I just tested this for you, and I’d like to confirm this workflow works without hitch.
This is how I tested it:
1. I transcoded a h.264 clip using MPEG Streamclip to a folder on my desktop as a ProRes LT file.
2. I opened FCPX (which created a new event) and imported the transcoded MPEG Streamclip clip.
3. I then closed FCPX and went ahead and deleted the transcoded MPEG Streamclip clip. Now when you re-open FCPX, the clip shows as being offline, as expected.
4. I then re-transcoded the same clip, making sure it transcoded to the exact same folder, and when I opened FC, this clip automatically re-linked itself and was able to continue where I left off.There are a few important step that need to be followed though. You’ll need to make sure when re-transcoding the clips that there transcoded to exactly the same folder, if you want FCPX to automatically re-link the media. If you don’t, then you’ll have to relink these yourself in X. Apart from that I think you should have no problem.
Also I forgot to mention, modifying the clip name inside of X does not effect the original clip name at the finder level.
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Best kept secrete https://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/fcpx-transition-sound-only/
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Or another option would be screen record with the QuickTime Player 😉
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Just tested it myself, so here are the steps.
Select the first 9 camera angles and choose new multicam clip. Once the multicam clip is created, double click on it in the event, which should open the angle editor.
Add an additional angle and drop in a timecode generator. It should look something my image below.
Then select all (Command+A) and paste them in a new project (or timeline if you wish).
Once you’ve done that, select each clip and scale it down like a picture in picture using either the transform tool, or scale in the inspector.
Your end result should look something like this.
Export and your done 🙂
The reason I’d add the timecode generator is so you have a reference to go off should you need to go to a specific time in the angle editor.
Hope that helps 😉
Oh btw, I’ve generated these PNP effects in motion which then generate them in my FCPX Effects bin. Do this once and you never have to worry about it again :-))))
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Give ths a try. Add a few cameras in the multi cam editor. Select all then copy/paste to a primary storyline, Now you’ll need to add a scale to each & position similar to the multi cam viewer. You can them export these as a QuickTime file & make your choice. I would probably add a timecode generator to the multi cam editor so you have a reference timecode to go off too 🙂
Not sure this will work, give it a go & report back.
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Hmm.. now you’ve got me curious, might re-install 7 and give it a go.
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[Carsten Orlt] “Would be great to know what problems you had with multi cam.”
Basically what happened, I was editing a 2hr long two camera edit (using multi cam), and when I finished the edit, I sent it directly to compressor so that I could encode it to MPEG-2.
As per normal once I send a project to compressor, I add the MPEG-2 and AC3 preset, adjust the bit rate and submit.
I’ve been working with FCPX since 10.0, and this workflow has worked flawless, till now.
When I authored the DVD and tested it back on a DVD player, there was no audio. I opened FCPX, and sure enough the audio was there. So where did I go wrong!
Well there seems to be a bug when you edit multi cam from a captured HDV or DV tape. By sending your project directly to compressor, for some reason the audio renders blank.
For my own sanity, I decided to test the same project, but this time added a H.264 & ProRes presets, and sure enough the audio rendered just fine.
This clearly is a bug, as I have been collaborating with Michael, and he too experienced this same problem last week when using multi cam on DV footage. What we are not sure of, if its a FCPX bug or compressor.
I believe Michael has already reported this to Apple and has had contact, so hopefully this gets sorted in the next release 🙂
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Tom, I’m we’ll aware this process, however correct me if I’m wrong, in FCP 7 providing the media in your timeline conformed to the timeline codec, exporting was a lot less than the length of the timeline, was it not? I no longer have 7 installed so I can’t test.
Anyone care to try this out. 2hrs of media on a timeline already transcoded to ProRes, Timeline coded needs to be ProRes, then export.
What’s the exporting time going to be in FCP 7?
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Funny thing is Carsten, I’ve never had the need to export to ProRes to transcode to another codec, I just normally send my project directly to compressor. However I experienced a really weird bug with multi cam, which I’ll post separately once I’ve extensively tested this found.
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Jeremy, your screen grab just gave me an idea. Why not add just a black generator, give it a custom roll, which in return you can control the height of the clip.
Not only can you control the height, but you can change the connected clip name to SFX Above so you know all above audio are SFX’s.
Just an idea… Don’t shoot the messenger boy 🙂
