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FCP 6 vs PPro CS2: A+ for FCP's Multi-Cam Editing

 

 


Ron Priest
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Dec 20, 2007, 8:41 PM

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Well I finally made it to lesson 6 today in Diana Weynand's FCP 6 book, and I have to say I've very impressed. This was a lesson that I've really been looking forward to. This lesson explained how to create subclips, creating subclips using markers, creating a storyboard, how to replace edits, and most importantly , multicam editing.

Multicam editing in FCP is far superior to Premiere Pro hands down! It works along the same principle, but is so much easier to set up, and all of your camera views playback in realtime very VERY smoothly. Not all choppy as they do in Premiere Pro. As the multicams are displayed in quadrants on the viewer (source monitor for PPro users) the output is displayed in full resolution in the canvas (Program Monitor in PPro) very smoothly. PPro doesn't show the selected output on it's program monitor during live switching. Also, there's no mysterious problems with loss of audio as there is when learning multicam editing in PPro. Bottom line, I've extremely pleased.
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Timothy Harry
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Dec 22, 2007, 11:06 AM

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yeah the multicam feature is what made me upgrade from FCP4.5HD to FCP5 back in the day. saved me a ton of time over what I had been doing before. Apple really nailed it with multicam in FCP, I tried using it on the Church's AVID the other day to work on a church project, only to get frustrated and take the source footage to my mac to do it there. I just could not get the clips to sync on the AVID and it is so easy in FCP to make them sync. With the new HVX200's its even easier to sync up cams, especially with jam syncing timecode, I think the canons and sonys do it too, but my old XL1's did not have this ability.

Tim Harry

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