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Workflow Enhancements for Creatives
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Add Toolbox to Break/Flatten Multicam Clips #579

Open Stooovie opened 7 years ago

Stooovie commented 7 years ago

This would be tremendously useful as FCPX doesn't natively have this ability.

latenitefilms commented 7 years ago

@Stooovie - How would you like this to be implemented? What kind of user interface/controls would this feature have?

Stooovie commented 7 years ago

It would probably work like the native Break Apart Clip Items command in FCPX. I can't think of any necessary controls right now.

The idea is, after running this command, the timeline would have the appropriate ranges of the original clips that actually play. Right now, timeline with MC clips has angle switches, not regular cuts. Multicam clips cannot be stabilised properly and there are other limitations, mainly for exporting to other apps, XML workflows and such.

I'm aware this is probably either very difficult or maybe even impossible.

latenitefilms commented 7 years ago

It's definitely possible. Basically the way would do it is:

However, as the Pasteboard contents in Final Cut Pro is completely undocumented - this is very much a matter of serious trial and error. Although we can now read the Pasteboard pretty well, we still haven't really nailed WRITING BACK to the Pasteboard reliably. Once we get our heads around this, features like this will hopefully be much easier to implement.

randomeizer commented 7 years ago

Would it just have the selected clip for that shot? Audio could be trickier, since you can have multiple angles of audio active at the same time. On Tue, 2 May 2017 at 1:35 am, Stooovie notifications@github.com wrote:

It would probably work like the native Break Apart Clip Items command in FCPX. I can't think of any necessary controls right now.

The idea is, after running this command, the timeline would have the appropriate ranges of the original clips that actually play. Right now, timeline with MC clips has angle switches, not regular cuts. Multicam clips cannot be stabilised properly and there are other limitations, mainly for exporting to other apps, XML workflows and such.

I'm aware this is probably either very difficult or maybe even impossible.

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Stooovie commented 7 years ago

@randomeizer it should somehow honor the settings of the multicam switching - I personally always do the Video-only switching, leaving audio uncut.

I saw this feature being one of the top voted-for on the old FCPXHacks website.