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Joe Riggs
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March 20, 2018
Question

Merge clips in CC 2018

  • March 20, 2018
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Hi,

Has merged clips been fixed in the latest  CC 2018 or are people still experiencing

problems with them? how is it to use them for the entire edit?

I just tried a very small conform from merged clips (where the Alexa file names where changed to take names while editing) from CC 2018 to Resolve 14,

and it seems to be working the original media and file names are showing up!

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    Joe RiggsAuthor
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    March 26, 2018

    Is there a way to create a multicamera source sequence from the timeline instead of the project window? I

    know if you sync that way, the metadata will be retained.

    However, my clips are already lined up in the timeline (just haven't been linked or merged), as previously mentioned

    they are silent, so I would not want to have to resync them manually from the project window.     

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    Jarle Leirpoll
    Legend
    March 28, 2018

    You can sync in the timeline, and then enable multicam on the clip (sequence) when you put it in another sequence.

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    Joe RiggsAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 28, 2018

    That way won't create individual files though (you'll end up with a long sequence with all the clips nested), right?  Instead of individual multicam clips based on each take (or start/stop of the camera).

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    March 20, 2018

    This sort of thing can be so determined by the 'local' factors of the machine, media, & such that one may 'share' the issue with others and then suddenly you change something seemingly unrelated and you don't have the issue anymore. Which makes assuming you either will or won't have an issue with a different version a waste of time. Irritating, at times of course.

    Another option for joining camera media with low-quality audio to external audio media is to use the multi-cam process. Jarle Leirpoll in his book at PremierePro.net - discover the cool stuff in Premiere Pro  gives a good explanation of why ... and how ... this is superior in many ways to Merge Clips. Among other things, you can select an entire bin of media, do the multi-cam process, and it will make as many sequences as it sees different camera/audio combinations. You have ten cameras, ten sources of external media ... you get ten sequences that can be used as clips including Q/W editing shortcuts and such.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    Joe RiggsAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 20, 2018
    Another option for joining camera media with low-quality audio to external audio media is to use the multi-cam process.

    This is nice when you have timecode or a reference audio track on the footage, a lot of high end cameras RED and Alexa,

    will be silent unless production feeds the camera a reference track. If footage is silent you have to mark in and out and sync manually. 

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    March 20, 2018

    Yup. Not as handy. However, there are still options available after the 'merge' via multicam you don't have with Merge Clips.

    And is one of the things where if you know you'll be dealing with this, you need to communicate ahead of time with the DP to insure the cams all have a reference audio track. Not always possible, but ... over time, one can perhaps educate the DP's to think of this sort of thing.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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