Angle viewer issues?? :-(

From your screenshot I don't see any evidence that you've yet created a multiclip.

Essentially, the steps are: selct the clips you want to sync. Create a multiclip. Open it in its timeline to check that it's synced. Create a project. Edit the multiclip to the Project Timeline. Open the Angle View and make your cuts.

There are lots of great tutorials available.Hereis only one of them.

Russ

The problem is that you have the angle viewer turned on for the event viewer.

As is evident in your screenshot, FCP X has (since 10.0.6 I think) allowed for two viewers, the normal viewer and the introduced "event viewer". Originally FCP X had only one viewer available, and some people wanted two (more or less like the old FCP had, although there are substantial differences).

What you need to do is:

Window->Viewer Display->Show Angles to show the "right" angles, and

Window->Event Viewer Display->Hide Angles to hide the ones you currently see.

@Luis: Perhaps. But seems to me if it were the event viewer, shouldn't it have a star icon?

@ Riaan: Are you sure that Clip 1 (in the timeline) is a multiclip with both clips inside? Double click it in the browser to open it in the Angle Editor to confirm that both clips are there.

Russ

Russ

Look at the screenshot: the two viewers are clearly visible, and the angles are to the left of the left side viewer. Clearly, this is the event viewer. I am sure of it.

Hey Luis. Then I'll change my "perhaps" to "probably".

I pulled up a multicam project and I can almost reproduce the screen shot. But try as I might, I was unable to get an event window with angles that didn't have the star icon. A minor detail I guess and probably a simple explanation.

Russ

Select Clip 1 and Cllip 2. Right click and choose New Multicam Clip.

Russ

So the name of your multiclip is Clip1?

Agree that you don't want to make your cuts in the timeline.

Try the Angle Viewer once again and see whether you now get the razor.

Russ

Riaan144000 wrote:

I've just double clicked it and both angles are definitely there...But I don't want to edit them in the timeline though!?

The multicam editing in FCPX is great if I could only get it to work the way it did

(when I only had to click on an angle to switch between video)

Let me back up a little.

Did you:

1) Create a multicam clip with two clips in it (apparently you did)

2) Drag said multicam clip to a project timeline

3) Show angles in the (right) viewer

What do you see then? Can you post a screenshot at this point of the process?

Riaan144000 wrote:

@Russ: No but Clip1 is what it says even though that's not the name I've given it.

I tried to edit the multicam clip on the timeline just to see what happens but even though the angle is there(or seems to be there),

the screen goes black as soon as I cut to the 2nd angle...like it's actually not there

What you are looking at is called the "Angle Editor". Despite the name, this NOT the place where you do your cuts.

You are in fact not "cutting" to the second angle. The top angle is selected (and as such is referred to as the "monitoring ang;e"), and you are only actually viewing this particular angle. The fact that the viewer turns black at the skimmer position in the picture is NORMAL behavior.

Riaan144000 wrote:

@Russ: No but Clip1 is what it says even though that's not the name I've given it.

Not sure what that tells us.

The last screenshot you posted certainly shows a multiclip, which has been opened in the Angle Editor (which is like opening a compound clip in its own timeline). It's that multiclip that you want to open in your project timeline and then start cutting in the Angle Viewer.

Looking forward to the next screenshot.

Russ