Multicam editing fcp 6 ? How to do it.

Hi. can anyone explain how to do multi camera editing to me please. This will be the first time we have tried this and would love to know the pitfalls and what you have to do to make it work well. We are doing it on DV even though it was shot on digi beta then will conform the final edit.
Thanks
Martin

Here's two resources for ya.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/multicam_editingmartin.html
http://streaming.ohio.edu/aac-lab/FCPMulticamH.mov
The video is pretty boring in the beginning because the speaker talks about the benefits of being certified. Who wants to hear that?!? But afterwards the video is pretty informative. It's kind of funny he goes off about being certified in the beginning but during the tutorial he fumbles trying to find certain menu options.
There's plenty more if you just Google multicam editing Final Cut Pro
Also the video tutorial explains how to combat the issue Shane mentioned previously of selecting different video feeds while maintaining one audio channel.
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