I recently did a shoot for a UGA event called UGA Idol (it's name implies exactly what you think). We were rolling three XL2's with a feed from the board to the coverage cam. It was a nearly three hour event so when I got home I had 10 tapes to sift through.

Without fcp's easy multicam editing it would have been a huge headache, but as it was, the only problem I faced was not having aligned the xl2's timecode (we didn't have a remote handy to do it). When I got the clips of each singer ready to put into multiclips I was faced with the sync issue.

Marking in or out points by which fcp can sync the seperate clips will often cut off your usage for portions of clips. I decided to open the three angles up in seperate viewers and rolled them each to a matching frame then clicked Modify > Timecode and added a matching timecode number to aux 1. Then when you make your multiclip, sync them by the aux 1 timecode. Your multiclip will last from the beginning of the earliest clip to the end of your latest even if their orginal timecode was years apart!

Just a quick fix to a problem I should have solved earlier, but I'm assuming some of you out there are having it as well.

Just a quick fix to a problem I should have solved earlier, but I'm assuming some of you out there are having it as well.

Another thing I've been banging my head over, if you stop editing but need to come back to a MultiCam editing, I double click the MC in the timeline, reset the Sync to Open in the viewer, play in the timeilne, make my cam1 cam2 cuts and press enter, and all my cuts are gone even though as I'm editing, the blue marker icons are on the timeline. How do I get the markers to stick? I can't image you have to sit down at hour long cermeony and make all edits in one sitting.

Thanks,
Grant

This is a great idea.

How do I open multiple viewers?


Ah, i see, select the clip in the Browser, then View>Open In New Window.

It worked great. THANKS.