multi clip editing

I have a 2 video camera, multiclip edit that I am working on and I cannot get the 2 cameras to show up in the Viewer. I have only one camera showing up. I have set the Playhead Sync to Open and checked my System Settings to Multiclip Edit. I right clicked the file and selected Make Multiclip. I dragged the 2 Multiclip files into the Viewer, but still no results - just one frame showing up in the Viewer. Please help. Thank you!!!

After you set "in" points for both clips so that they will be in sync, you must set an angle for each clip. Highlight a clip in the browser then under "Edit" click "Item Properties" and then "format" and then assign it a number or letter ( ie - 1, 2 or A, B). Do this for each clip. Then highlight them both in your browser then go to "Modify" and click on "create multiclip". This will create a new clip in your browser - the multiclip - which you can then drag to your timeline. You must hold down the option key as you take it to the timeline and then, with playhead sync open, play the clip in the timeline and click on whichever angle you want (you'll see both angles in your viewer).

Check List time!

-Multiclip placed in timeline, Check?
-Playhead Sync to Open, Check?
-Multiclip Playback on, (it's in the RT menu of the timeline)
-4, 9, or 16 up display in the viewer. You'll need this if you want to see more than one angle.

The standard FCP Multiclip keyboard maps "Switch to Angle X" to the keypad and "Cut to Angle X" to Option-Keypad. Many get caught on this slight difference their first time through. You can play down the sequence merrily cutting away and seeing your angles change and the little blue locators popping up only to see them disappear when you hit stop.

ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!

You don't make each clip into a multiclip. You select the two clips and make them into a single multiclip. Is that what you did? It doesn't sound like it from your message.

The difference isn't that slight! Switching allows you to review different angles before an edit-- very handy. Cutting actually places an edit to a different angle.

I do this in the Timeline, not the Viewer, which guides the edit. I've been using Command-1 through 9 to actually slice a MultiClip to new angle 1 through 9. Surface keytap will switch your angle but not cut.

Option 1-9 switches your audio to follow the clip edit.

This on the default MultiCamera Editing keyboard layout.

- Loren
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Other than the fact that I was employing understatement to make a point, it is that "slight" difference that has caught EVERY person I have taken through the FCP multi-clip editing gauntlet.
That, and the difference between the three main active tracks settings.

The first thing I do on a new mutli-clip project is load my keyboard with the "Cut To" mapped to unmodified keypad and the "Switch To" mapped to Cmd-Keypad. Makes more sense to me.

I was hoping multi-clip editing would be a little tidier in v6. It still can't handle angles made from merged clips properly. I haven't done a full cut in v6 yet but that is my first observation.

ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!

[The first thing I do on a new mutli-clip project is load my keyboard with the "Cut To" mapped to unmodified keypad and the "Switch To" mapped to Cmd-Keypad. Makes more sense to me. ]

Not a bad idea!

- Loren
Today's FCP keytip:
Apply a default AUDIO transition with Command-Option-T !

Final Cut Studio 2 KeyGuide? Power Pack.
Now available at KeyGuide Central.
www.neotrondesign.com