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520Final Cut Pro User Guide
Set video and audio monitoring in the angle editor
In the angle editor, you can set any one angle to be the monitoring angle. This is the angle
you see in the viewer when the multicam clip is playing back in the angle editor. You can
also monitor the audio of any number of angles at once.
You use the monitoring angle to sync angles in the angle editor. The monitoring angle is not
the same thing as the active angle (which you see in the timeline).
Note: Setting the correct monitoring angle is important for the two sync commands
described later in this section: Sync to Monitoring Angle and Sync Angle to Monitoring
Angle.
1. To open the Final Cut Pro angle editor, do one of the following:
• Double-click a multicam clip in the browser.
• Control-click a multicam clip in the browser or the timeline, then choose Open in
Angle Editor.
2. To set an angle as the monitoring angle, do one of the following:
• Click the Video Monitor button at the left side of the angle.
• Click the pop-up menu next to the angle name and choose Set Monitoring Angle.
• Press Shift-V while skimming the angle.
The Video Monitor button becomes highlighted, and the entire angle is highlighted in
light gray. The angle plays in the viewer when you play back the multicam clip in the
angle editor. Only one angle can be the video monitoring angle at a time.