Thanks for re-posting! I sure hope they listen.
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
From: fordtimelord <mattczak@gmail.com>
To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 2:06 pm
Subject: [Avid-L2] FEATURE REQUEST: more flexible multicam functionality
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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