Multiclip question

I use multiclip once a year, which is just enough time to forget everything about it, and to have to re-learn it.

The problem I'm having and can't find the answer to in the book: I think I have it all set up right, but when I play the multiclip and click between angles, I see it's making the cuts and putting markers on the timeline, but when I stop, the markers disappear and no actual cuts have happened on the timeline.

Is there some setting I'm forgetting so that the cuts actually cut in the timeline?? Thanks for any suggestions.

If you are using the numerical keypad to switch the clip views, you would just get a practice marker when pushing that key. You need to use Apple + keypad number to actually make the cut. There is a card that lists all those keystrokes in the package for FCS1.

Yes, I'm using the numerical keypad. So I have to hold down Apple at the same time? Isn't there a way to do this where I'm just hitting the # and don't have to hold down anything?

Thanks.

Yes you can. Customize the keyboard so that the unmodified keypad buttons are for "cut to angle" as opposed to "switch to angle" as it is now.

That's not a practice marker. It just lets you know that it's switching the entire shot from the last previous edit to the next, which, in the case of one solid clip freshly laid to the timeline, is switching the whole thing and therefore when you hit stop, no edits.
Switching is good for changing a shot in an edited piece and not changing the edit times.

ak
Sleeplings, AWAKE!

Got it, thanks very much. Always appreciate the swift help here.

There are two default keyboard layouts in FCS and one of them is specifically for Multicam. Switch to that and learn the varieties of control.

Or do what I do, just go through a multiclip and slam Command-[keypad]1, Command-[2], Command-[3], etc on the fly. This switches angles and makes the cut-- the markers turn into edits when you stop Play. It's a gas.

You can always Roll-adjust adjust an edit afterward if your timing is off.

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