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501Final Cut Pro User Guide
Working with multicam clips in Final Cut Pro is a flexible and fluid process. At any time, you
can add angles to or remove angles from a multicam clip, and you can easily adjust the
sync between angles.
You can also group unrelated footage together for real-time montage editing (such as for
music videos). For example, if you’re editing a music video, you could add several angles
of abstract visuals and cut to those angles at specific places in the music. You can even
use photos (from a still camera) in a multicam clip. If the date and time (Content Created)
information matches the contents of the other angles, the photos are automatically
adjusted in duration to “fill in” the angle.
Multicam clips have the following characteristics:
• You create multicam clips in the browser only, from existing event clips.
• You edit and adjust multicam clips in the angle editor, which looks similar to the
timeline.
• When you add a multicam clip to the timeline, you create a direct and active relationship
between the “parent” multicam clip in the browser and the “child” multicam clip in the
timeline.
• When you open any multicam clip in the angle editor (whether from the browser or
the timeline) you are in fact opening the parent multicam clip from the browser. Any
changes you make to a multicam clip in the angle editor are inherited by all of its child
clips, in all projects. These changes include sync or trimming adjustments, clip speed
retiming, video or audio effects such as color correction, and added or deleted angles.
For example, if you delete an angle from a parent multicam clip, the angle is deleted
from all child clips. For more information about the angle editor, see Sync and adjust
camera angles in Final Cut Pro.
Tip: You can create a “snapshot” backup of the entire project to protect it from
accidental changes. Project snapshots are self-contained backup versions that include
multicam or compound parent clips. Duplicating a project as a snapshot makes copies
of the multicam or compound parent clips and embeds them in the duplicate project
so that it’s not affected by changes to any other instances of the clips. See Duplicate
projects and clips in Final Cut Pro.