I can't get sync'd multi cam Clip.

Have all the clips from a given camera been asigned the same camera angle and the same camera name?

Russ

I've generally had great results syncing clips automatically – even when there are many gaps between clips in video and audio angles. Nearly always if I got a weird result it was because I had overlooked giving a clip a unique angle or camera identifier (somthing that's easy to do if you have many short, discrete clips).

A few times – even with proper IDs – I've run into a stubborn clip or two. Once, a camera's time and day info was way off. That was solved within FCP using Adjust Content Created Date & Time. A few times I couldn't get the correct auto sync until I inserted markers and chose First Marker on The Angle in the multiclip dialog. (I gather you've tried all that?) And there was one time when nothing worked and I ended up transcoding the original media to Pro Res; that worked.

I've never had to resort to manual sync – something that I can't say about FCP 7 and earlier.

So check the clips' time and date to verify that they are reasonably close; try changing around some of the settings in the dialog and changing the positions of your markers; try transcoding.

Good luck.

Russ

Russ H wrote:

I've generally had great results syncing clips automatically – even when there are many gaps between clips in video and audio angles.

same here - and I have no music for synching, just the crowd-noises at soccer-games ... 😁

(I'm using Multicam to synch 4-7 cameras on a match - real fun in editing, like a 'live director')

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Two things:

in my case: I set manually a Marker in each cam-angle when the ref whistles the game on. This hasn't to be with frame-precision, it just gives FCPX a lil' 'push' ...

(Re)Naming multicams, excellent tutorial (with some clever tricks!) here:

http://wemakemovies.org/2012/10/fcpx-batch-renaming-advanced-multicam-sync/

Had you successfully used the multiclip automatic sync function with any earlier version of FCP X?

Could you post a screen shot of the 2 clips in the browser that shows the markers you inserted?

Also, I'm having a hard time visualizing what you describe about the appearance of your timeline. so if you could post a screen shot of that as well, that would be great.

What kind of media are you working with and what model cameras shot the interviews? Did you optimize your media?

Russ

I am having a similar issue. My system and FCP are latest updates.

I have a set of clips shot with one tripod camera for the full length, and what looks like one or two other "roving" cameras getting closeups and other angles, but start and top points (not runnign the entire interview). Effectively these are B roll with matching audio.

If I run Sync Clips, it makes a huge mess piling them all one atop another. The audio souds like a party, not a conversation with two people.

When I make a Multicam clip, FCP does a "pretty good job" but some short clips are WAY out of sync...

Then it becomes a puzzle to find where they go.

Is there a keyboard shortcut for monitoring the video of the track on which I have just clicked the clip it's on? the one Multiclip when I am done?

Also, ••• How do I close the Timeline back down to

Glad it's fixed and you posted back with the solution; it's helpful for searches by those who find themselves in similar straits.

To your question about playback: Check in the Viewer Display options (upper right disclosure triangle) to see that Better Performance is chosen for Playback Quality.

Multicam projects really need fast media drives; check yours with a speed test from AJA or Black Magic.

Ensure that you have a minimum of 15-20% free space on your boot drive and at least 10% on the media drive.

Begin the edit session with a fresh system boot and run as few competing processes as possible.

Edit with Optimized or Proxy. If you choose Proxy, remember to reset to Original/Optimized before exporting. Also, Better Performance won't be available with Proxy.

Russ