Friday, March 16, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] FEATURE REQUEST: more flexible multicam functionality

 

Multi group used to behave something like this where black was inserted where there are gaps in the video. Try it in MC v2.7.

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On Mar 16, 2012, at 5:06 PM, "fordtimelord" <mattczak@gmail.com> wrote:

> I started mentioning this in another thread ("For the love of god, LET IT ROLL."), but it got things off topic, so I'm bringing it inot a new thread.
>
> Basically, I think it would be great in the case where you have clips from DSLRs and other cameras that have stop/starts in them, to be able to sync those in the sequence, and them merge them into a multicam track, with black wherever there isn't footage on whatever cameras where off at the time. It would basically operate exactly the same as a sequence that is in multicam mode, but without having to mixdown the clips with black, make separate clips, group them, and then start a new sequence. FCPX has this functionality already, albeit with audio issue I've heard. It doesn't seem like a tough thing for Avid to implement since it uses functionality that they've already developed in a very similar way to the way it already works.
>
> Thanks for listening!
> -Matt
>
> Here's the original post from the other thread:
>
> I'm jealous of the FCPX workflow for that aspect of multicam. If you have DSLRs
> and regular video cameras shooting on a multi-cam gig, DSLRs in almost all cases
> can't shoot the entirety of a performance. If it's music, you can just have
> shooters stop/start at each song break, chop it up by song, create a group clip
> for each, and it's fine.
>
> Here's my problem: I shot a theater piece with acts longer than the 12-or-so
> minutes a DSLR can shoot at a time. The Canon XF305 shot the whole thing in one
> go, but the 2 DSLR's are chopped into stop/start clips. Pluraleyes can line them
> up nicely in MC6, but then I can't get them into a multicam view without an
> insane amount of work, even though they're all synced and laid out right there
> in the timeline. From what I understand, FCPX can just be told "these are all
> different angles of the same synced event, show me them in a multicamera
> switcher mode, and if there isn't footage in some spots, just don't show me that
> track for a bit (I realize they're not called tracks anymore)". That would be so
> much easier for my situation, and doesn't really seem like it would be that hard
> to implement, but I'm not a programmer at Avid.
>
>
> -Matt
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Philip Hodgetts <philip@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mar 16, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Shirley Gutierrez wrote:
>>
>>> THANK YOU! What he said!
>>>
>>>
>>> Funny, This just came up yesterday. A Cannon 5D and 7D shooting the same
> scene, the goal being to create group clips. But, no common code, the 5D
> starting and stopping 3 times while the 7D continued to roll, oh, and did I
> mention that the 5D shooter forgot to shoot the slate occasionally?
>>
>> And I'll be crucified but FCP X can handle that in a single multiclip, sync'd
> by audio if nothing else is available. Multiple clips in an angle, mixed
> formats, mixed frame rates, video only, audio only, throw in a still imageÂ….
> all
> good.
>>
>> Philip
>>
>> Philip Hodgetts
>> President, Intelligent Assistance
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