Hey,
So I was trying to do my first multi clip edit this weekend and I found it quite difficult.
Back when I used to use Vegas, multi clip editing was easy - I'd just line up all the clips on the timeline, move them around till they're all in sync and click to create the multiclip video. This would create a video, in sync, which would begin when the first file started and end when the last ended. Then each clip would be easily editable and cutting done by pressing the number of the clip.
After trying my first FCP edit, I found a lot of problems with the edit:
1 - Syncing. Ok I know I'm coming from Vegas, but I found no easy way to sync the files. These were live music filmed files, where there wasn't a desk/truck sync'd time code - i.e. there was a bunch of guys filming who hit record when each band came out but not at the same time.
I found that it wouldn't let me sync them the same way as in Vegas by moving the clips to the timeline and moving them about till they're in line. Instead I could only create the multi clip by the files in the Browser.
Since these weren't in sync in the first place I had to go off the master clip and create a sub clip by using the audio wave and trying to set the out at the same point. Then I created the multi clip sync'd to these outs.
Phew, what a massive headache that was. Surely there's a better way than this as I intend to do many a multi clip edit for live music and it'd suck if I had to go back to Vegas because FCP is such a head ache.
2 - Editing keys. I found the editing also difficult because the key bindings kept messing up. I bound the cutting to CTRL + the numerical keys, where CTRL+1 would edit to Angle 1 etc. I think I had 7 or so angles.
Yet, I'd do seemingly anything and the keys would reset or wouldn't work properly, and I'd have to re-bind therm again and again.
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Can anyone suggest what's the deal here, am I being dumb or is this just a 'feature' that makes it ten times harder to edit? I'm esp talking about the first point here.
Cheers!,
Andy
So I was trying to do my first multi clip edit this weekend and I found it quite difficult.
Back when I used to use Vegas, multi clip editing was easy - I'd just line up all the clips on the timeline, move them around till they're all in sync and click to create the multiclip video. This would create a video, in sync, which would begin when the first file started and end when the last ended. Then each clip would be easily editable and cutting done by pressing the number of the clip.
After trying my first FCP edit, I found a lot of problems with the edit:
1 - Syncing. Ok I know I'm coming from Vegas, but I found no easy way to sync the files. These were live music filmed files, where there wasn't a desk/truck sync'd time code - i.e. there was a bunch of guys filming who hit record when each band came out but not at the same time.
I found that it wouldn't let me sync them the same way as in Vegas by moving the clips to the timeline and moving them about till they're in line. Instead I could only create the multi clip by the files in the Browser.
Since these weren't in sync in the first place I had to go off the master clip and create a sub clip by using the audio wave and trying to set the out at the same point. Then I created the multi clip sync'd to these outs.
Phew, what a massive headache that was. Surely there's a better way than this as I intend to do many a multi clip edit for live music and it'd suck if I had to go back to Vegas because FCP is such a head ache.
2 - Editing keys. I found the editing also difficult because the key bindings kept messing up. I bound the cutting to CTRL + the numerical keys, where CTRL+1 would edit to Angle 1 etc. I think I had 7 or so angles.
Yet, I'd do seemingly anything and the keys would reset or wouldn't work properly, and I'd have to re-bind therm again and again.
-
Can anyone suggest what's the deal here, am I being dumb or is this just a 'feature' that makes it ten times harder to edit? I'm esp talking about the first point here.
Cheers!,
Andy