Do you know a way to use Multiclip playback with 4 cameras that have different Time Codes? I have a visual flash at the beginning to sync up the 4 clips and
am able to line them up in a sequence. But do you know how to have Multiclip playback in the Viewer?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Not possible. In order to Multiclip in FCP 7, the footage must match in every way...same frame size, frame rate, codec...everything.
If you have them in the sequence, layered, they you need to adjust the scale on all of them to 50%, and arrange them into all the corners of your frame. You might not get a green render bar for these for full playback without rendering, if your drives aren't fast enough.
Alternatively, pick a good common time code and use Compressor to convert all the files to that.
Once that process is complete, in each file, mark the moment of the flash, use multiclip to sync the files on your mark and have at it.
Simple as apple pie in an New England fall.
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With all due respect to the two gentlemen above, I've been doing Multiclips with dissimilar timecodes in FCP6 and FCP7 for years because I have no means to jam timecode. As long as all the other attributes (framesize, framerate, codec, etc) are the same, all I do is find a good sync point and mark an IN point on the clips, then use the Make Multiclip command using specifying IN Points as the sync.
The IN points aren't necessarily your chosen IN points, they're just a sync reference in Multiclip. You can create new IN for the Multiclip after it's in the timeline by just sliding it down the timeline and pulling the left end of the clip back towards the timeline start.
I learned this technique from Steve Martin (founder of Ripple Training) when we shot his son's baseball game with three Canon GL-2 cams (no provision for timecode sync) tback when Multiclip came out. We published a short tutorial on it, '06 I think...
hope this helps
It works. Thank you very much.
Can you multiclip edit with different Timecodes?
