Multi-clip Question

I'm using Multi-clip in FCP 7 to edit a two cam shoot. I've noticed that after rendering a Multi-clip video track, the independent camera views no longer show in the Viewer. They show when playback is stopped but when playback starts, the Viewer appears just as the Canvas appears and the two run in sync. There is no way to, that I know of, to get back the independent camera displays in the Viewer.
Is there a way to get the Viewer to show the multi-cam displays in the Viewer after a Multi-clip video track is rendered in the timeline?

Delete your renders.
Multiclip timelines should NEVER be rendered. For a good explanation why, read through the section on multiclip editing in the manual.
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Quick multi-clip question..

I have to cut a three camera shoot in the next two hours. I've set up the multi-clip. The three cameras are pegged to the 1,2,3 of the numeric keyboard. When I flip from one camera to the next everything works ... but ... it doesn't make a cut. I could use the icons on the timeline, they work, but it isn't very intuitive or rhythmic (this is a music show). How can I set the 1,2,3 keys to actually make a mark or a cut as move between them?
I'm on the road, no manual, and I remember it being a bit of trick anyway ... wading through the FCP manual for an answer to this particular question (which I've unfortunately forgotten).
All ears,
Ben

Just finished my first 4 minute song. Only ten more to go. Thank you Tom. And Studio X.
Studio X for getting me to go back to the in-board manual, which, with the keywords got me into a whole other set of subject headings, which got me into understand better how they've laid the thing out.
And Tom, for the down and dirty.
Much appreciated,
Ben

** lost multi clip ability...

Hi
I seemed to have lost multi clip ability...
I have a multi clip in timeline, i dbl click its in the viewer showin two feeds.
Yesterday when I synced I could play the timeline and the viewer would follow.
I cannot do this today, not sure why also my (play multi clip) from the RT drop down is not there. I do not know if I have done something that has change the settings.
Is there something I am missing?
I need to somehow get this working as it was before, any ideas?
Please any help would be grateful
TeeFX

3 Questions for you:
1. Where is the source media located?
2. Has your timeline been completely rendered?
3. Can you verify that the "Show Multiclip Angles" in the View menu is checked?
Some other threads which may help you:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5032772
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5003461

Multi-clip - number pad makes marks, but no actual cuts?

4 cameras. Set up as multi-clip. The toggle buttons work to cut the angles just fine. But I can't get the keypad (number pad) to make the cuts. It makes the marks on the fly. When I stop the play the marks disappear and there are no actual cuts. I've done this successfully many times before. Can't figure out why it isn't working this time, why the marks don't become cuts when I stop the play.
I bet I've mis-clicked something somewhere.
Any ideas out there?
Ben

I gave you a 'This helped me ...' when in fact you deserved a 'This solved my question'. Thank you mucho Michael. I work days, weeks, months on FCP ... and forget that I can actually 'set' things differently. I'm always amazed and pleased when I discover a new keystroke or something ... or rather, when someone introduces me to it. And immediately incorporate it into my routine. But I hardly ever go looking for the things. I just want to get the film cut. And in FCP, one can go on learning the techno forever it seems ... so many ways to do something.
Really do appreciate your help. This will very much speed up my day with a deadline looming.
All the best,
Ben
P.S. If there is any way I can go back and give you a "This solved my question," I would do it in a flash.

Multi Clip in Final Cut Pro

I am new to Mac and Final Cut Pro.
I am trying to use multi-clip for a music video.
I have imported 4 video clips (put them on my desktop) into Final Cut Pro,
rendered each one.
Modified the clips to start at the same, started a new bin, put the clips there,
then I selected them all and Made a Multiclip...it was created.
I started a new sequence, put the new multiclip in the sequence
the problem is here, all the four clips appear in the viewer box but when i push play, they play very, very slow and choppy. When i select a different clip while these choppyness is playing (it does not modify the multiclip in the timeline). Also another thing I noticed is that the multiclip in the sequence is not high-lighted in green.
How can I get the multiclips to play smoothly and change screens?
sorry for the poor description, help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you both. I will try to answer the questions to my best.
The video was recorded with Canon60D
The format is .MOV
Sequence Preset
DVC PRO HD 1080i50 FireWire
Michael, how do I check if the scratch disk is formatted mac OS extended?
Thank you both.

Multi-clip editing not working

Hello everyone,
I need help with the multi-cam editing feature, I have done everything I know to be correct to setup my multi-cam editing.
1. setting a common in point with my 3 cameras
2. selecting each and creating my multi-clip
3. setting my RT settings for multi-clip editing
4. making sure open is set
The blue marks show up as I switch from angle to angle( I'm using the number pad as my switcher). The problem comes in when i stop and press the spacebar. The blue markers disappear and the cuts don't show up. Please help me understand what I could be doing wrong.

Thank you all for answering my question. Yet I have done all these things you both mentioned. Its as if there is a glitch. Prior to this post I found that I was switching and not cutting my selections, the adjustment was made and finally I thought I could edit in peace. When I hit the space bar after my cuts (no longer just selection) do not conform to my multi-cam timeline. I mean is there an order I should be doing things in to have this work. The crazy part is that it works sometimes and other times it just doesn't want to function correctly.
steps taken:
1. Setting a common in point with my 3 cameras
2. Selecting each and creating my multi-clip
3. Setting my RT multi-clip settings for multi-clip editing on timeline
4. Loading my keyboard layout (which Cut video to angle etc.)
5. Making sure Gang is set to Open
6. Double click on multi clip in sequence to load onto viewer
7. Setting my audio to center and other two to video only
-play the sequence, start switching and hope/ pray my cuts conform to the Seq.
I'm I doing something out of order here ?
thanks in advance
-Jay

Nikon SLR video to multi clip editing

I did a multi cam video shoot for fun and one of my camera's was a SLR Nikon 300s. I recorded it onto a CF card & it was recorded as AVI files. I imported the AVI file into the browser along with the other video which was shot on sony z5 cams. When I click on make multi clip I get a warning that the Frame rates don't match. and I notice the Nikon is shot at 24fps with a frame size of 640x424.
OK, I thought, so I exported out the AVI as a QT file (exported both from FCP and QT player) with a setting of dv/dvcpro-ntsc best quality, 29.97 fps, aspect ratio 4:3 and 720x480 dimensions.
When the file is finished and I import the new QT file into FCP browser it still doesn't open a multi clip. Seems the browser fps setting is reading 30fps even though it was set to 29.97fps in export.
Question is... any idea how to get this file to be 720 x 480 with a 29.97 fps setting to show up in the browser?

Well...your Z5 is an HDV camera...HDV, 1440x1080. That still doesn't match the DV 720x480. They need to match EXACTLY...in every possible way.
Or...make life easy and get PluralEyes to sync this up. No need for FCPs multicam.
Shane

How do i get fcp set up to make multi clip cuts buy just clicking on the boxes in the viewer

how do i get fcp set up to make multi clip cuts buy just clicking on the boxes in the viewer

This forum is all about FCP X. You should ask your question in the FInal Cut Pro Studio forum.

Multi-clip almost never works for me on the first attempt

Anybody know why when setting up a multi-clip, I can almost
never get it to work the first time I hit the timeline to start playing.
All my settings are correct, but either the viewer or timeline doesn't move on the first time try.
All I do is take my playhead back to the beginning of
timeline, hit play again, and usually it then starts working correctly. Sometimes I have better results if I hit the play in the Viewer instead of the Timeline, but it's not a consistent thing.
Again, I'm in open sync in Viewer and Canvas/Timeline, I'm in Unlimited RT, dynamic video quality and frame rate, multiclip activated there, turned off high quality scrubbing, ect.
I'm usually doing this with (3) short 3 minutes DV clips
on a mac book pro.
When I do get it going after the second, third or fourth attempt, I haven't changed any of the settings,...I've just confirmed that they were right to begin with.
Anybody else experience this and any ideas on how to get it to work correctly first time out?
Thanks.

so effectively it's on a different drive, sort of
But still using the same reader heads as your primary drive. So technically, it's still the same drive.
I just cut a 4 angle music video last week using my MacPro at work, and even with the source media on a FW800 G-Raid, I was still getting delayed playback and couldn't even view the 4-up display when playing back. So I moved the project to our XSAN, and with the fibre backbone there, bandwidth was definitely increased.
So the other variable in this problem is bandwidth as well as RAM. I know that a fibre based storage system isn't in everyone's budget, but I'd recommend trying out an eSATA based drive, given that I had trouble with 4 streams over FW800.

Line Up Clips for a Multi-clip Edit

Hi I am editing a dance video, when it was recorded at the event a few of the camera people decided to pause after every song - this has made it a hassle to edit. I am trying to line up the clips to get them all in sync for a multi-clip. The only way I could think of to do this was give each camera angle a track and line them up that. I almost have them all lined up, but I have no idea how to make it back into one clip, since it is currently cut into tons of pieces. How do I combine them back into one clip? The closest I could find was Nesting, but that creates a sequence, and I can't make a Multi-clip out of sequences.
Each video track is a different angle, the screenshot I posted doesn't show all of the clips lined up, because I didn't get quite that far. How can I make this into a multi-clip
I just started using Final Cut about a week ago and I don't really know how it all works....yet.
Any help would be appreciated.
Screenshot: http://arch.kimag.es/share/16064428.png

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1207003&tstart=25
Thrillcat (and others) posted a great solution to your situation in the above thread...
K

Using You Tube video clips question:

After importing several clips from You Tube (of varying quality) to incorporate into an editing project, the clips look okay and play full screen, in the "source" window, but when I put them in the timeline and play them in the "program" window, they are thumbnail size. Why does this happen? I tried converting...but still no luck.

JSS1138 wrote:
Re: Using You Tube video clips question:
The short answer here is, don't. (Assuming that if it was yours in the first place, you'd have the original and not have to use the upload.)
And Bill, you should know better than to help someone violate copyright law.
yeah, i beg to differ on this. i have 100s of videos on youtube i did back when it first started before i saved my finished projects... (from 2005-2008 i would just record, edit, post, delete, because it was just random junk of me hanging out with friends, or just v-logging about stuff i needed to blow steam about) so one of these days i'll have to go through and download them and burn them for archives. Never say never

Multi-clip help!!!!

I have a project with 17 seperate multiclips. I first started making 1 multi-clip then editing it, then making the next and editing that and so on..... After making the 2nd multi-clip, when i try to edit it, the viewer locks up and wont let me change angles or between open and sync off. I get a message saying..
"Sequence error: Unable to add clip to sequence.
Possible media limits problem in clip or sequence."
Now this problem is solved by restarting FCP, but it persists after i edit one multi-clip??????? Will trashing preferences help???? Maybe I have some setting wrong???? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

If the problem goes away with a restart of FCP it does sound like trashing prefs could help. If it only happens on one certain multi-clip you might have to identify a bad clip that is in that multi-clip. But be aware FCP multi-clip/multi-cam is very powerful but very strange in its operation and behavior. You must research, read and do tutorials before expecting to operate without error.

How edit DVCPro HD and HDV footage in the same multi-clip project?

Dear All
I am to edit a music video material shot with two cameras. I received the footage as .mov files, but one file is a DVCPro HD 1080i50 codec and the other is a HDV 1080i50 codec. - It seems the music concert was recorded on two different cameras (I guess one was Panasonic the other Sony).
How can I edit the music video using multi-clip editing? - I guess I will have to reconvert one of the footage-format to match the other format. If so, which conversion assures the best quality: from DVCPro HD to HDV or vice versa?
Or should I ask for the original tapes and then import all as a HDV codec (is that possible with the DVCPro?)?
I have never worked with the DVCPro codec before. So any links further explanations and tutorials are appreciated.
Many thanks,
Hynek

Dear Tom
Thank you for the tip. I converted the DVCPro footage into a HDV file and it looks good. The new file is only 9BG compared to the DVCPro file of 39GB. Quite surprising that such a down-conversion still results in a rather good quality.
Hynek

Only one angle is playing in multi clip sent back to FCP from Color

2 camera Multiclip edited and rendered in FCP 6, sent to color, played ok after color adjustment.
Rendered in color, and sent back to FCP; second angle in the clip is blank (black).
tried different settings in color prior to sending, same result.
The multi clip plays ok in FCP prior to sending to color, and plays ok in color prior to sending to FCP.
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The fix you can try is to Media Manage the project exporting the active Multiclip selection as independent. With that, you might even be able to create a new COLOR prj and import color corrections, so not much repeated labour.
jPo

Multi-clip with different video codecs. Can it be done?

Is it possible to create a multi-clip when using different video codec (i.e. HDV 1080i50 & HDV 1080p25)?
Thanks.

Nope. Convert one to match the other using Compressor. Or better yet, convert them both to matching ProRes 422 files.
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