First of all I am running FC Production Suite. I have two cams that I have already synced in the time line, now I am ready to do the rough cut. My question is, is there a way to view what is on both clips at the same time for simplified cutting between cam clips?
17 PB G4 | 1.5 Ghz | 1.5 Gb Ram | 128 VRam,
Mac OS X (10.4.2),
G5 2.5DP | 1.5 Gb Ram | 128 VRam | 17" Apple Display
Where would I find it? I have done a search in the help section of FCP and looked through my manuals. I must be missing it somewhere. I am just looking to set yp it so I can view both feeds at the same time, so I know when to cut between them.
I think only FCP 5 and the Final Cut Studio package included the multi-cam/multi-clip feature. The Production Suite came with FCP 4 (I think).
If that's what you're working with, lay clip 1 on track V1 and clip 2 on track V2. Load clip 2 into the Viewer, then click on the Motion tab and use the Scale and Center controls to reduce and position clip 2 so it shows as picture-in-picture effect.
As you go through the Timeline watching both clips, use the Blade tool (b) to cut the sections of clip 2 that you don't want to keep, deleting them as you go. When you're done, select ALL of the clip 2 sections that remain on V2, then right-click on one and choose "Remove Attribute", "Basic Motion" and they'll all go back to centered at 100% scale.
While they're all still selected, you can Shift-drag them down to V1 and add transitions as needed.
Also have a look at Livecut (http://livecut.sourceforge.net/). I used this before FCP5 was released. I only used it a couple of times and it seemed that I needed to use compressed footage (not sure if my RAID was too slow or some other problem), but it was easy to use and gave a great result.
I am having problems removing the motion attricbutes. I selected the arrow that highlights all the video on the V2 track, then control clicked on one and tried to removed them and hit OK. Nothing happened. Did I do something wrong?
When you right-click on the selected clips, and choose "Remove Attributes," a window sould open with severla options. Click "Basic Motion" to remove the scale and center attributes that you set earlier.
I didn't realize that you actually "checked" the box instead of "un-checking" it. WHEW! Got that figured out, that will make the rest of the series a breeze. Thanks again!
