I know this isn't what you want to hear, but in the future you might
want to use DSLRs that can record multi-hour continuous takes.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:07 PM, fordtimelord <mattczak@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
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> 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.
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