Any Final Cut Pro X experts? Help needed!

[bramley]

Hi,

I foolishly volunteered to video a school play. I used a 5D2 and a 7D, and a Zoom H4 audio recorder. The audio is approx one hour long and I have 53 (gulp) video clips. As each camera is concerned there are gaps in the footage but at least one camera was running at any given moment in time.

I have only used FCP X for very simple edits before so the idea of multicam and compound clips etc is new to me.

I'm struggling big time, and could do with some help getting all the synced clips and audio into a timeline correctly, and efficiently.

I've imported the footage with a keyword added hoping that may help FCPX separate one camera from another.

I've watched a few tutorials and began to get somewhere but as I'm a novice with FCPX I would be very grateful if someone could give me a few pointers. I've seen how to edit the multicam footage so that looks ok, it's just getting to the point where I'm ready to do that that I'm struggling with.

Thanks

[bramley]

Thanks so much. Will study that link!

Do you think I should throw the whole lot at the multicam gadget or do it in batches?

[bramley]

That makes sense.

I've got the option of filming it again tonight which I'm going to take advantage of. Went again last night but it was interrupted by a problem with the music system. I've got better at knowing what's going on and when and technique is better so will should be worth the effort. Also the 7D is very noisy, I'm struggling to get a sharp picture from it, so I'm dropping the ISO and using a wide aperture lens - 5D2 isn't so bad. 7D will only be used as a backup when the 5D2 goes off. I'm also aiming to have fewer clips to work with.

Thanks so much for your help