Multicam locking up during syncing

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Multicam locking up during syncing

I'm trying to create a multicam clip from two angles, but it gets about 1/8th of the way into the sync before it locks up. I've tried using two different computers and tried deleting all the files and re-importing, and it always locks up at the same place.

Background: I was using two cameras, each of which split the clips into six files each. My first step is creating compound clips for each angle, then trying to create a multicam clip from those two files. To troubleshoot, I tried creating a multicam clip just from the first segments of each angle, and it still locks up in the same place.

Any suggestions?

Final Cut Pro X, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Oct 11, 2015 8:42 AM

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Tom Wolsky

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Oct 11, 2015 10:14 AM in response to Kilg0reTr0uT

Don't do the compound clip step. Not sure what you're actually trying to do there, but it's not going to help.

What are the complete media specs? Can you try other clips to see if it's a media problem.

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Kilg0reTr0uT Author

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Oct 11, 2015 10:21 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

I'm making a compound clip because i'm trying to switch back and forth between two angles, not 12. also, one of the cameras hadn't been white balanced, and i don't want to color correct the six separate files making up that angle. So that's why I combined those six clips into a single compound video and color corrected it as a whole.

I should note that I successfully edited a video before like this. Was it just it just dumb luck then?

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Tom Wolsky

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Oct 12, 2015 4:23 PM in response to Kilg0reTr0uT

If you assign all the clips from the same camera the same angle number, they will all be added sequentially to the same lane in the multicam editor. You can color correct one clip and paste the attributes to the other clips in the multicam editor. You'll only have two angles in the angle editor to cut between in the project.

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