About a year ago, I shot a concert for The Levee Singers. It’s a group of men who have been singing together since the 60’s. We did it with 5 cameras, and Rolled tape continuously on each camera. So now the audio has been mixed (we multi-tracked it) and I’m about to edit the concert Using the MultiCam edit feature of Final Cut. Never done it. Any advice?
July 2, 2008 at 9:42 PM |
I’ve only done the multi-cam editing once but it was so much faster than “the old fashioned way”. I took it in small chunks, instead of trying to do the entire edit at once. Its takes a bit to get used to how it works but I love it. The only trouble I had was getting the footage lined up and then synced to the audio I was using but once I got it all synced up everything went really well. Let us know how it goes and what you learned from the experience
July 3, 2008 at 12:40 PM |
I’ve done it several times. It’s really easy.
The in FCP manual, there is an excellent description of how to set up your multiclip sequence. I’d read it. In fact the first couple of times I did a multiclip, I printed out the pages and kept them next to the computer.
Look for the multiclip button bar under the “TOOLS” menu of FCP. it really helps to use these. Also, I tend to use the cut edits rather than the transition edits. It places hard cuts in the time line and I think it’s easier to keep track of where you are.
I agree with Tiffani and work in smaller chunks. I would even experiment a little before you get started with the real thing to get a workflow going. Sometimes you don’t know what questions to ask until you’ve made a few edits.
Have fun!