T. Payton
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If you are making a copy of the project to just work in proxy, you can actually just copy everything but the original media folder in the event and that will still work. (!)
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Bill,
Funny you should say that. This is what is hanging in our office right next to our shrine of outdated technology to remind us that everything technology we think is cool will someday be headed for the trash.
We are a branding company so we do all sorts of projects… but most of all of them seem to improve with some DSLR shot video 😉
(Zip Disk, DVCPRO, DVD, VHS, Floppy)
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
[Ken Miller] ” A challenge is that musicians often play with headphones, so the camera would only hear the new instrument while the musician hears the evolving master through the head phones–unless the master audio is also playing out loud. If not, it would make it tough to do audiowave sync in FCPX, I think, because the clip of, say, the sax would try to sync with the master, which at that point would also have all the instruments that came before the sax. I’m guessing FCPX would get confused at that point. However, if headphones aren’t used, or the master audio can also play out loud while each new instrument is being recorded, then each video clip will have the full master audio as well, which should make syncing easier.”
How about splitting the audio going into your camera. Your headphone mix on one channel and then an external mic in another. FCP will be able to grab the first part of the headphone mix audio to sync.
[Ken Miller] “I agree with Bill, this may not necessitate a multicam approach, but rather a series of stacked video segments all synced to the same master audio.”
Bill knows his stuff that is for sure. I’m just mulicam happy. 😉
You could sync all the audio and video clips together in a synchronized clip then just open it up and copy and paste it into a project.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
This sounds like a great concept. I’ll give this a quick shot on how I would do it.
So are you going to lock down the master audio first? If so
– Treat it as a 16 camera multicam shoot.
– All camera angles will have the same reference audio so they should create a multicam clip in FCP X without a problem
– Edit using multicam clips “stacked” in your timeline with split screen effects. Assigning or switching video as needed.
– Color correct the video in the angle editorIf you are NOT going to lock down the master audio first, then
– Start in your DAW and export each of the 16 instruments as separate tracks all the full length of the song.
– Export a FULL MIX with all instruments the full length of the song.
– When you shoot the Video use the FULL MIX for reference for each of the 16 angles.
– in FCPX you will create a 32 angle multicam clip. 16 audio tracks from your DAW and 16 video angles.
– Set your Video angles like V1 through V16 and then your DAW audio tracks DAW1 through DAW16. Or you could let it create angles automatically based on the clip names. The 16 DAW audio angles should sync to the to the FULL MIX as part of the video angels. But you might have to tweak those manually.
– Edit as multi cam stacked with split screen effects just like above, but now you will assign the video and audio angles as necessary.
– Color Correct each angle in your master multiclipNote: I think you might need some more flexibility with animation on the split screen so you might want to check out one that is part of FXFactory, called Tokyo Split Animator at https://tokyo-uk.com/fcpxeffects/splitanimator.html
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
I think the Firewire 800 drive is probably adding to the issue too. When working with FW I keep my loaded events to a minimum.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
BTW. The iMovie import seems limited to MP2 camera media. Doesn’t work with a regularly authored DVD.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Perhaps you are trying to do this will a multicam clip. Unfortunately you can’t separate audio at the moment for multicam.
For multicam, the workaround us to just disable the video (turn the opacity to 0%) and then just treat it like an audio clip, assign channels, etc. It works very well.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Just a quick experience to encourage you to use YouTube of Vimeo to post proofs.
Yesterday I started cutting a 40 second promo for an upcoming client presentation. Then I got a call that I had to leave the office right way, so I clicked Share > YouTube, hit return and then I put on my coat, my backpack and as I walked about the door. I locked the office and then pulled up YouTube on my phone. Sure enough the video already uploaded, this was after about 2 minutes passed. I watched it as I walked outside and then texted a link to my fellow creative director for review.
This was all accomplished in a matter of less than 5 minutes. I can understand that your desire is to export a reference movie, or even a finished movie to compressor, and then upload via email. However, I think the existing workflow in FCP X very well thought out by Apple and we should take a bit of moment to try their methods. They have made posting a proof literally 3 clicks and have made what should be a simple thing a simple thing indeed.
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OneCreative, Albuquerque -
I’m counting on the basis of the FCP X calendar. Thusly:
June 2011-June 2012 — Year 1 of FCP X
June 2012-June 2013 — Year 2 of FCP XThusly, the launch was in the first year of FCP X or “last year” according to FCP X reckoning.
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OneCreative, Albuquerque -
[T. Payton] “I did a quick comparison test:”
A quick correction on my tests. FCP X are FCP 7 are very different animals, and this wasn’t a true apples to apples test. For example because the video clips were DV codec, FCP X wouldn’t actually transcode them into ProRes 422 until the time of the Share/Export. Hence the FCP X ProRes export being was slower in my tests.
FYI.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque
