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Published inMar 2024
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ISBN-139781804614921
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Bruce G. Macbryde
Bruce G. Macbryde
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Bruce G. Macbryde

Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
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Actions in the multicam angle timeline

The multicam angle timeline requires several actions to be completed to ensure that all the tracks are in sync with the angle that is showing in the viewer. This is known as the monitoring angle.

Audio synchronization

The most important action is to check that the audio in all angles is in sync. This is critical because audio is the one factor that ties all of these angles together. If they are out of sync here, they will be out of sync when you are cutting, and it is time-consuming to try to match them up once the editing and cutting processes commence.

The process of checking the synchronization of the audio involves nominating a monitoring angle that has clear audio for the full length of the scene. It is ideal to have an external audio recorder that has been active for the whole session as it creates a bed to sync all the other angles. Otherwise, you can select a video angle with clear audio that runs through the whole session. You...

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Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro
Published in: Mar 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804614921

Author (1)

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Bruce G. Macbryde

Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
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