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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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What is multicam?

A multicam shoot uses multiple cameras to record the same subject or event from different angles and distances with the same audio source. A multicam project has those different camera angles as well as separate audio clips all combined and presented in the timeline as a single clip that can be cut from one camera angle to another on the fly or by selecting individual angles to switch the different cameras. Audio can either be fixed from one source or different sources and can be selected in the same manner as the video.

Final Cut Pro can edit up to 128 camera angles together in one multicam project.

You need to be aware that there are two multicam timeline windows. The multicam angle timeline (Figure 8.1) shows all the tracks of the multicam, video, and separate audio if it’s included. The multicam angle timeline is not magnetic.

On the other hand, the multicam project is more like a normal timeline and is magnetic. It only shows the currently active...

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

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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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