Multicam Editing in Final Cut Pro Complete Guide

This video covers everything you need to know about multicams!

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⏱ Chapters ⏱
00:00 - Intro
00:13 - Organizing
01:13 - Multicam Settings
02:51 - Setting Up Your Multicam
05:17 - Preparing Audio
08:20 - Changing Multicam Angle
10:37 - More Audio Tips
11:22 - More Helpful Multicam Settings
12:18 - Multicam Editing For Picture In Picture

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[hollistalks]

My brain is fried because of the sheer amount of condensed but extremely valuable information you provided. I need to take a nap to recuperate but after I wake up, I'll start putting all this new knowledge to work! Thank you so much!

[KateAmberYoga]

This is INVALUABLE! Thank you for going into so much detail. I just shot my first multi-cam yoga class in the forest and I didn't know ANYTHING about multicam 13 mins ago. Thank you so much, Dylan!

[matthewTobrien]

This tutorial is exceptionally well done. Laser-focused and incredibly helpful, especially for those who are editing Events with multiple cameras creating coverage. Loved the tip on blading an angle that may have some different timing from the monitoring angle, and using a Compound Clip to do your Picture in Picture effect was a nice little bonus. That Picture in Picture effect is helpful. One of my favorite Effects, and I use it almost daily. Great vid, Dylan!

[iPhonedo]

Oh that's a great way to do PIP. I usually drag and copy the multicam on top of itself and change the angle and resize it. Which means for every instance I need the PIP I have to do the same thing. It is not very time consuming using opt+cmd+c/v from the previous PIP I prepared but with your way I can simply create an angle with PIP and switch to that whenever it is needed. Perfection!

[mrdonsmith]

I used to edit five and six angle Multi-Cams, some angles with cameras that start and stop, for a large corporation and the MC in Final Cut is the best! But, there's so much more that the Multi-Cam in Final Cut can do.

- I cannot stress enough the power of using First Marker for Angle Synchronization. It'll speed up the sync of angles MUCH faster in that Final Cut will first look at the first marker because it's only a guide and then Final Cut will ONLY match the audio around the first marker to fine tune the alignment of the whole clip. FAR FAR faster than letting Final Cut examine audio of the whole timeline of each angle to find a match. It's night and day. To prove how well it works, set the first marker for each angle but don't be too careful. Be a frame or two or three off. When Final Cut sync's everything quickly, zoom in tight to the markers and you'll likely see them not perfectly aligned to each other. Instead Final Cut only used sound sync just in the small area around the first marker to ensure perfect sound sync for the whole clip. That, even though the markers weren't perfect. For extra credit, you only need to put the first marker on the first clip in angles where you have multiple clips. Because of embedded timecode, all the rest of the clips will be properly placed in sync away from the first clip (see next tip). Really, if your clips are long, you'll go from getting lunch to wait for sync, or be done with it within a minute or so. Amazing.

- If you have a camera that starts and stops, then give all the clips the same camera name so that they will all be on the same angle timeline. Otherwise, they'll each have their own timeline and that'll drive you crazy! As said above, only the first clip in an angle with multiple clips will need the first marker.

- Another benefit of First Marker is that you don't have to have sound. Use something visual to place First Marker. If later you see that the angle without sound is slightly out of sync, you can step into the MultiCam and select the no-audio angle and then use the period and comma keys to adjust the clip left and right until you see perfect sync.

- The MC's I edited were usually in noisy rooms. When there were two or more people in the shot, I instructed the crew to put each voice on either it's own independent track, or on one side of a stereo track. I would change the the Stereo track to Dual Mono so I could isolate one voice while muting the other mic so to cut down on the room noise. One trick it used was to ...

- ... duplicate the two person shot so that you had two angles with the same shot but one angle had only the guy on the left and the other angle had the guy on the right so that when I changed the angle using the Video and Audio mode from one guy to the other, the visual was unchanged but now you had the other mic on and the first mic muted. Talk about a fast way to edit sound! But, what if they talked over each other for a few words? ...

- ... Remember that you can drop down the audio track away from the video and extend it across an angle change. For those few words where they talked over each other, both people will be heard but you'll reduce the room noise when the overlap ends.

- It's not mentioned but you can can change the Monitoring Angle to be any angle that serves your purpose. I sometimes had to make a new angle, insert a clip, then make a change to my monitoring angle so that the added clip could better be sync'ed.

- Did you know that while the MultiCam is opened so you can work on the angles, you can change which angle is visual and which angles are heard to help you make adjustments but those changes inside the MultiCam have nothing to do with how the main MC timeline (with the MC closed) is seen and heard? So, don't be afraid of messing things up with MC timeline you're editing.

- I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting at the moment but this is a good start.

Thank you Dylan! DonSmith.TV

[RobWords]

This video has been invaluable to me. I used multicam combined with your PiP plugin to edit together a Skype interview, cutting between me, the guest, and a 2-shot while watching it in real time (like we do in live TV). Worked a treat. Thank you.

[rogalaphotography]

Dylan is is one of the best multi cam tutorials I’ve seen. I learned multicam about 8 months ago but you taught me several new features I didn’t know about! I love the Picture in Picture idea! I’ll be using that in one of my next videos!!! Thank you!

[TravelAddictsLife]

Thank you Dylan for another very informative tutorial

[KazuH]

This was exactly what I was looking for. A quick and easy guide to start using multicam. My use case is exactly the same as your example, a ballet performance on stage shot with multiple cams. Excellent and clear presentation of how to get started. Thank you!

[SonnyGreenwichJr]

Man, this was fantastic, thank you so much! A whole lot of tricks I didn't know! BOOM! 🔥🧨💪🏽🤠👍🏽🧨🔥

[PatrickMastersProductions]

Mind literally BLOWN AWAY!!!! I bow to you, fine Sir.

[mouseykins]

I’ve been using multi cam for years and still picked up a bunch of tips from this. Outstanding!

[shanexplains]

Very helpful thank you! Could not get the angles to switch so gonna research some more, but this helped so much!

[Richard_Broom_Photography]

Woo! Slightly above my editing pay grade at the moment but a most interesting tutorial and I will now go off and experiment with Multicam editing (you are an inspiration!). I learn so much from you videos. Thank you so very much.

[KaitCoats]

Thank you! This is so helpful! I’m a Pilates and yoga teacher doing all my own video editing (trying anyway! Lol). I’ve wanted to add music to some of my classes but I’ve struggled to figure out to have music and still hear me giving instructions. I think this will solve my problem!

[timden]

Thank you!! Your presentation is simple and straightforward, exactly what I needed to get organised with multicam.

[MixiMera]

Perfect Dylan, the FCBro is my preferred source of Final Cut Pro information. 
But can you you explain if there is a way to do Multicam cutting AFTER the clips have been timed right and placed on the timeline? It is a bit confusing how to handle this, once you got it all right and you need to start over with a Multicam clip instead of what you already got. 
I wish I could combine 2+ tracks on timeline and combine them and then select camera A or B back and forth for the entire length. Possible?

[Justdreamitaly]

Very useful! I edit while following along.

[didoroxx]

Just want to say that I am a new editor and your videos have been very helpful and beneficial to my self teaching. Thanks bro

[frgot]

amazing tutorial, really easy to follow and helped a lot. thanks!!!