Multicam clip creation/Autosync

[Daniel31691670zrer]

Since merge clips aren't currently advised, I am begging for the same kind of functionality that Avid has to "Autosync "multiple camera clips to a single audio track. This is crucial for documentary/reality shoots where audio rolls for a very long time, and cameras start and stop.

What this functionally does is:

Match multiple camera clips to an audio track and creates a new multicam clip for each instance.

Example: Let's say you have camera clips A001, A002, A003, A004, and they all sync to different points with Audio Clip 1.  Right now, this syncs all the clips into *one* multiclip in ascending track order. This suggested "autosync" functionality would instead create a seperate multicam/group clip for each new camera clip that matches the the audio track. It would also automaticlaly truncate those clips to whatever is shortest (the vast majority of the time this is the video clip).

Also very much need a way to be able to assign camera labels to Proxy Media when it is not attached to masters. I've asked the team about this before, and they've said it can't be done because a proxy clip can't inherit properties from a master clip, but still wondering there could be a workaround, as this is a major hangup in our workflow.

Thanks for reading!

Dan Steiner

[MyerPj]

So basically you want the output of the AutoSync / multicam to be a bunch of smaller multicam clips, each likely the length of the video clips. So if you have 70 camera takes, you get that many files out?

[Daniel31691670zrer]

Yes, exactly. There is currently no automated way to do this with Multicam clips. I guess an alternative would be fixing merged clips so it works with AAF/XML metadata, but that's still busted, according to the long form and episodic workflow guide.

[MyerPj]

I upvoted your idea, it's the big-ish number on the upper left of the thread. That's the indicator of interest in the idea. Anybody else here can upvote.