Let's learn how to create a multi-cam clip today with my little friend.
We have our footage imported from the different cameras.
Now it's time to combine them all into one multi-cam clip.
First, we'll hold "Control" and select all the footage we want to include.
Then, we'll navigate to the top menu and choose "File," "New" and "Multi-Cam Clip."
This window will appear.
We can give it a name.
Choose an event within the library to store the multicam clip ...
...or even change the starting time code value if necessary.
And if all the clips contain audio, we can use this checkbox to have Final Cut Pro
automatically sync the clips using the audio waveforms.
One tip we have for this is to clap at the beginning of the recording
so that Final Cut Pro has an obvious sync point for all the footage.
Just be aware that this may take a while if you have longer clips, so you may want to uncheck
it if you're confident that Final Cut Pro can sync your clips using time code or metadata.
If we leave the video and audio as is, we'll allow Final Cut Pro to automate the rest of these settings.
So if we click "ok..."
...the progress bar will appear.
And once finished, the new multi-cam clip will appear in the browser.
We can double-click to open it in the timeline.
Let's kick it up a notch, shall we?
It's decent, but if we want a little more control over the result?
We can choose use custom settings in the bottom left and these additional settings will come up.
"Angle Assembly" has four choices.
We can choose "Automatic," where Final Cut Pro will sort the angles automatically based on metadata.
"Camera Angle," where angles are made based on the camera angle property of the selected clips.
"Camera Name," where angles are created in the clip based on the camera name property of the selected clips.
And "Clips," where separate angles are made for each selected clip using the name property to name the angle.
You may have seen this in our previous video that
we typed custom names of angles into our camera name tag of each clip.
Check out that video linked below for more detail.
We can just have our angles assembled based on the names we gave them in the camera name tag.
Next, the angle clip ordering drop-down allows us to choose how angles are ordered in the multi-cam clip.
If on "Automatic," the clips within each angle will be ordered automatically
with the best method available according to the metadata.
"Time Code" will order the clips based on the time code metadata of the footage.
This option is highly recommended as the quickest and most accurate method, but if
you use it you'll need to make sure the time code is recorded in all of the footage as you film.
Or, you can use "Content Created," where Final Cut Pro will order
the clips using the date and time information recorded in each clip.
We'll go with "Time Code."
If you feel like we're moving a little too quickly, just hit the pause button or roll it back and play it all over again.
Next, "Angle Synchronization" will let you choose how angles are synced in the multicam clip.
"Automatic" will sync the angles automatically based on the available metadata.
"Time Code" will sync the angles based on the time code recorded in the clips.
"Created Content" will sync the angles based on the date and time information for the clips.
"Start Of First Clip" will use the first frame in each angle as the sink point.
And "First Marker On The Angle" will use a marker you've placed on every clip as a sink point.
Again, "Timecode" is the best option available.
Down here, we can change the video and audio settings for multicam clip if needed.
Or, leave them as the same as the rest of your project.
Once finished click "ok" and the multi-cam clip will be created.
In the top left of its thumbnail, we'll see the multi-cam icon that looks like four panels.
We'll double click on it in the browser.
And here's what it looks like.
As we can see, the audio and video are synced up perfectly.
And each clip is named for the camera name tag we assigned to each one.
Stay tuned for our next videos on how we could take advantage of the multi-cam tools from Final Cut Pro.
And that is how you create a multi-cam clip in Final Cut Pro with ease.
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