This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: For the love of god, LET IT ROLL.

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:
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> On Mar 16, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Shirley Gutierrez wrote:
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> > THANK YOU! What he said!
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> > 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?
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> 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 image…. all good.
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