Final Cut Pro X Guru: Multicamera Video Editing

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There are many reasons for shooting video with multiple cameras, from saving time to capturing every bit of the action on stage. The hard part is putting all your shots together in post. Luckily, Final Cut Pro X supports multicamera editing and offers a variety of tools, shortcuts, and workspaces for different modern-day shooting techniques. Its multicamera, or "multicam," editing process is similar to live switching that occurs in mobile studios and newsrooms and helps speed up the post-processing workflow.

So join Nick Harauz in this course as he covers organizing media, creating multicam clips for interview and music video-style projects, and working with the specialized multicam options in Final Cut Pro X. With these tips and tricks, you'll be able to pull together your multicam footage into dynamic videos that maximize the impact of every shot.

Topics include:

• Explaining the multicamera process
  
• The benefits of optimized or proxy media in a multicam edit
  
• Importing, organizing, and naming clips and angles
  
• Exploring the various syncing strategies
  
• Working with the Angle Viewer and Angle Editor
  
• Adding, cutting, and switching between angles
  
• Working with effects
  
• Exporting a multicam project