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500Final Cut Pro User Guide
To allow the new clip material to appear in your Final Cut Pro project, do one of the
following:
• Reduce the total duration of the other clips inside the compound clip. For example, you
could trim one or more clips inside the compound clip.
• Close the compound clip to navigate up one level, then extend the total duration of the
parent clip (the “outside shell” of the compound clip) in the timeline.
For more information, see
Intro to trimming in Final Cut Pro.
Edit with multicam clips
Intro to multicam editing in Final Cut Pro
You can use Final Cut Pro to edit footage from multicamera shoots or other synced
footage in real time. For example, if you shot a live concert or a wedding with four different
cameras, you can sync the footage from each camera angle into a single multicam clip and
cut between the angles in real time.
The angles in a multicam clip are synced by a common sync point, a frame that you
can recognize (visibly or audibly) in each of the angles you’re syncing. When you add a
multicam clip to the timeline, the angle that appears in the viewer when you play your
project is called the active angle. While the active angle plays in the viewer, you can
also view all angles playing simultaneously in the angle viewer and easily cut and switch
between them.