Final Cut Pro X (FCPX) True Multicam - Music Video Tutorial

hey this is a quick tutorial on Final Cut Pro X multicam workflow and this is new in version 10-point 0.3 I'm going to show you really quick before I get into it what the end result looks like so that you can see how cool it is to do that first I'm going to turn on this thing called the angle viewer over here and what I have here is a music video and this has roughly 31 angles i'ma play just a little bit of this and you can see all of these angles going and I'll show you how you would be able to do an edit so in play this video if you see any shop eNOS here it's just the it's the screen capture it's not the video itself because this is playing totally smooth in my laptop now to edit the video basically you can see these blue outlines changing once in a while those are just two angles changing to go with the video and you can play this and in real time if I started clicking on these things I would change the angles so you can very very quickly edit a lot of angles put together a really nice-looking video really fast okay so how do we do that let's set up a test project and I've got all the footage from that video that we just looked at okay so these are all of my clips and I have a bunch of b-roll and then all of these MVIS I didn't rename those are all of the different angles so the first thing that you're going to need to do if you haven't done it already is create proxy media because the computer will just unless you're on a supercomputer or unless your footage is low resolution your computer will not play all of those angles at once so it's essential that you create proxy and the way that you do that you go to transcode media you select the clips all of your clips transcode media and you would check this box that says create proxy media now these are not available for me because I've already created the proxy media but you would be able to select this checkbox and hit ok so I've already got the proxy media and then you have to go into preferences and under playback say use proxy media and this will while you're editing allow you to use proxy media instead of the original large files and Final Cut Pro is able to play you know a very large number of clips at the same time when it's the proxy media format and then when you're done editing and you're ready to render on all of that stuff you can come back in here and switch back to use original or optimized media so here's my footage the b-roll is not part of my multi clip what is part of my multi clip are just all of these in VI files so you just simply ctrl click on it or right-click on it and you say new multicam clip now this is going to ask you to name it and then if you're recording on a DSLR and the audio is the same you can say use audio for synchronization it works sort of like PluralEyes if you ever had that plug-in it'll do anywhere from a really great job to it just completely won't work at all but it's worth giving it a try so you can just leave it and you can just click OK which is what I'm going to do and then it's going to create a multi clip so here's where it says synchronizing angles and this will take quite a long time and in fact I'm going to cancel this okay I've got this new untitled multicam clip but this especially since I cancelled the synchronization it's not synched up the clips are not synched up so I'm going to say ctrl click it open an angle editor now we can see here's all of my clips I'm going to zoom out but we can see here whoa this is pretty weird I've got all of this footage but it's just these little tiny bits because it's just it's just way off I mean this is a this timeline is 19 minutes long and my video is only 3 minutes long so something's not right here you know final cut was not able to sync up my clips so what I do is I kind of try to get them all just to start with in the same basic position when you go to drag these clips here's the first little gadget that you may notice I try to drag this clip here it's pretty tiny it keeps snapping back so like what's the deal with that well the reason is because you need to have the position tool and not the select tool you can just hit the P key or you can select it from there you can see that the mouse arrow is a little bit different with the position tool that allows you to move these clips I'm just going to move them all kind of over here so that we can zoom in and see what we're doing and actually get these clips synced so now we have everything sort of lined up minimally now this is something that I personally do when I'm shooting a video is I do a slate at the beginning on an iPad I actually take the music and I put it on an iPad my buddy JP at leather blue productions showed me this and you put timecode on there and then it allows you to sync it back up later so anyway we need to sync all of these clips somehow or another so whatever mechanism it was that you used when you shot to sync them up later be it a slate clapper board or whatever you need to find be able to go into each of your clips and find that point you know that you use for syncing whatever technique it is that you use in my case I use this time Co slate and what I do is I just go one clip at a time you click this little TV icon and that makes it so that you're viewing this clip I usually zoom in so I can get a pretty good look at it in my case I have timecode on here in yours you may have a slate or a Handclap or whatever you used or even a bit of the audio so now I can see 15 on my timecode this is how I do it I just move the playhead to 15 as you can see there and then I slide this guy over to there so now this clip if we move forward we watch 16 17 it goes along with my slate and then I move down to the next clip click the TV icon and like I said you might not have time code but what you might have is you might have a slate if you hit a slate or you clap your hands or whatever you did to sync your audio with your video I might just do two of these okay so I've got another one there I just have it on 10 so I move my playhead to 10 oops there we go line the clip up there must be some faster way to do this but I don't know what it is because I'm just getting used to Final Cut Pro X I'm not really a believer quite yet okay so I'm not going to go through all of these instead I actually have already I've already done one called performance multicam and can open that one in the angle editor and in here now I've got this on the more condensed view but you can change that with this little light switch so you can look at look at the clips like this or so I've done the work with this angle editor that's the part that takes a while inside this angle editor I've got all these clips so that they're all perfectly in sync with each other so the next thing that you have to do is drag in your audio if this is a music video that you're editing and the way you do that is I've already got the audio track but I'll go ahead and add it again just to show you you just select this down arrow any one of the tracks it doesn't matter and you say a dangle you could this is where you could delete an angle as well when you add it I should see a new angle here at the bottom and it is my audio is here and I just drag it down to inside that angle and then sync it up where it's supposed to start in my case I started the audio at exactly five seconds so I already have that track I'm going to delete this duplicate because we don't need it now we need to do one little setup thing before we can get really like rocking with our edit so the multicam is all ready to go I'm going to drag it into my timeline and select it now I need to find my audio tracks the green indicates you can edit the audio and the video separately the green indicates which audio track is currently playing the blue indicates which video track is currently playing I'm going to show you a little bit more about that in a second but what we need to do since this is a music video I don't want the audio changing all the time I only want the video to change so I'm going to click this audio button that means I'm now editing audio I'm going to move over here my audio track is the last one I need to hold down the alt/option key and you'll see the mouse changes to a finger I'm going to explain to you what that means in a minute but for now just just follow along okay so that's green now that means the audio is the current audio track in this multi clip now I'm going to switch back to blue telling it that I am only editing video at the moment if I have it on this than it means when I make these cuts it's going to cut audio and video both I don't want that I just want one audio track to play all the way through and I want to just cut the different video so that's what these three things are saying what what is it that I'm editing in the multi clip right now this is just one big block so we haven't put any actual edits in it yet so when I hold down the Alt key it just changes this whole edit to another clip and if I don't hold down the Alt key you can see that the mouse cursor changes to a blade and when I click it it makes a cut and it changes to that new angle so now if I move the playhead back just before it and I play watch over here and then we'll see the cut that I just ate so I just put that cut in there now at this cut point I can go in and I can actually change it around so I can move the location of where the cut happened there it is and as I move the playhead back and forth over this cut you can see there were on that angle and here we're on that angle and if I wanted to change this angle that's when you hold down the Alt key and I click this and now that whole angle has been changed so watch it again there we go so when you really want to start cranking on this basically you can just hit play I'm just going to make some these are probably terrible traffic not great tots buddy okay and as I was doing that it was just making all the cuts so I really just edited practically in real time this music video it took a while to get that angle editor set up and in place but it pays off because now you can edit so easily so quickly playing so many tracks at once I said this is 32 tracks well 31 video tracks and an audio track playing on a laptop and then you know just like we did before with all of these if I didn't like the way that this cut happened I didn't like the timing of it say I didn't like that I can just tweak it a few frames and let's say let's find one of these bad cuts okay so that wasn't a very good cut because we went from basically the same angle so let's say instead of that I want to get to the drums hold down the option key and I just change this angle within this little okay there we go so this works just like any other clip and now I can drag my b-roll even on top of it so here's some b-roll of a of an amp you can just edit in the timeline just like you would anything else and that's basically it that's multicam so I think I've gone through the basics of multicam with a music video I hope that was informative I missed anything or there's anything that's unclear leave a comment and I'll try to answer it I'm also going to post a link to this music video for ignition once that is done and available online that's it alright thanks for watching

Channel: Jason Hinkle

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Keywords: FCPX, FCP, Final Cut Pro X, multicam, tutorial, music video, editing, FCPX multicam, FCPX 10.0.3, 10.0.3, Final Cut Pro X Multicam, workflow, music video workflow, proxy, edit, osx, quicktime, mov, Software Tutorial, Music Video

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Length: 13min 47sec (827 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 12 2012