Multiclip Editing Tutorial on Final Cut Studio / Ramzo16 BTS

Here's a tutorial in Final Cut Studio about how to do a Multiclip edit.
I'm using footage from a Music Video I shot with Ramzo16 an musician from Toronto, Ontario.

Ken Domik
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This is a variation on the basics of multiclip setup and editing in FCP. Normally, it's just a simple matter of selecting two or more video clips, syncing them using T/C, audio or video hits common to all the tracks, then creating a multiclip. The trouble with this is that during the editing process every time you change video angles the audio source will change as well because the "audio follows the video". You can choose to change only the video angle and leave the audio unchanged to a track previously selected but this still leaves only one track of audio in your completed multiclip edit. This is not good if you want to have the audio mixed from all your different cameras that you used at your original shoot. This is a huge advantage for wedding and dance recital videographers who need all the audio for the final mix. Here's how to do it:
In the FCP sequence I drag the media from all the cameras into their own dedicated video and audio tracks and sync them all using a common audio hit or a camera flash, whatever you have available. Each time one of the cameras changes a tape it's another sync job with the other two cameras in the FCP timeline. Once everything is synced then go back to the beginning of the sequence and match frame each camera one at a time. Each time you do a match frame the master clip for that particular camera comes up in the viewer. Mark your in point in the viewer and do this for all the cameras. Once you have all the in points Cmd-select those master clips in the browser to highlight them all. Then go to the Modify menu and choose: make multiclip.
All this time while you're doing the match frame for the cameras the playhead shouldn't have moved at all in the timeline. Create a new track for video and 2 new audio tracks and drag the new multiclip from the browser (change the track destination first) into the canvas and choose Overwrite. Now you have a perfectly synched multiclip on top of the other camera tracks. Mute the multiclip audio and in multiclip preferences set it up so that each time you change angles the audio changes angles as well.
The other advantage of doing it this way is that you also have the audio tracks from all your cameras available. Edit your multiclip until you get to the next camera break (tape change) and then repeat the match frame workflow and create the next multiclip. And so on until your edit is complete.

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[brandonlamarmusic]

I HAVE AN IMPORTANT QUESTION..... WHEN DO YOU DO YOUR COLOR CORRECTING??? AFTER ALL THE CUTS OR BEFORE??? AND IF U DO AFTER, DOESNT IT TAKE FOREVER IF YOU CUT UP THE VIDEO ALOT???

[KBDProductionsTV]

@brandonlamarmusic I do all my editing until it's perfect, then I export it as a single new movie clip and then do the color correcting to that in after effects :) I hope that helps :)

Ken

[jimquake509]

I did exactly the way You did but it doesn't work for me, when I play the clips its only play one on the sequence. any idea pls?

[KBDProductionsTV]

@jimquake509 Sometimes you have to have the right window highlighted :)

[krstrobe1]

Hmm, I've got it working now. For some reason my project timeline only had three options rather than all the normal ones, So now it's working and I'm able to edit very quickly if I set playback to low until I'm ready to render. Thank you!

[KBDProductionsTV]

@krstrobe1 Glad you figured it out :)

[Cre8tvMG]

@brandonlamarmusic Sorry, I'm a Final Cut guy so I don't know. There must be some good vegas forums out there to ask that on though.

[brandonlamarmusic]

@Cre8tvMG does that work for sony vegas 10? i use sony vegas 10.

[Cre8tvMG]

@brandonlamarmusic You can do a 'find all' for a particular clip and drag it to a new track and then color correct the first clip and copy it to all the other instances later in that track. It's a little complex but flawless.

[brandonlamarmusic]

@KBDProductionsTV nice.. thanks alot.

[iBroadcast100]

@KBDProductionsTV Thanks I'll tell you when i need some help. Keep up the good work..

regards