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Syncing a multicam clip

Syncing a multicam clip - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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Syncing a multicam clip

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to look at creating a multi-camera clip. And, to find the material we're working with, we want to head to the Chocolatary Clips event, and underneath it there's a keyword collection for multi-camera clips. We're going to see four sources in particular. One is some raw audio that was recorded with an external audio device. I believe this was an H4N, and for this interview that took place in the chocolate shop, there were three cameras. So, two of the cameras focused on each of the subjects, and one of the cameras focused on both the subjects, all recorded at the same time. And now, as an editor, it's our job to basically sync these together. Sometimes, on certain film sets, what you'll have is someone will take a device and feed a signal to each of those cameras, which will feed it the same timecode and allow you to easily sync in post. Other times, you might have to manually sync by creating out in points on each of your clips, an identifying…

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