The Shirtless Apprentice is a weekly Internet web series about digital video production starring the very clever video apprentice himself, Matt and his blond mute friend. Each episode provides useful information about the production of digital video for online viewing and distribution. Very informative and much fun for the whole family!
Matt gives us some quick tips on how to sync timecode for multi-camera footage. Be sure to watch the follow up episode next week where Matt will show us how to synchronize the footage once you enter the editing phase.
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Just discovered your podcast and find it really useful. I have a question on syncing your timecode with a flash. So you put the flash on video, but how do you sync the timecode? Are you doing that in post?
It seems you load both clips in to your editing program and then tell each that the time should start at the frame you have the flash on. And does this mean you can't start and stop the cameras, because the sync would then be off from the other camera and you couldn't line up the flash frame in your editing software.
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Uncle Neal
Ron- You would import both of your camera's footage, drag them both into the timeline on top of eachother, find the point where the flash is in the videos, and match them so they would play at the same time. Now, at this point, you would only see one video when you play it through, because Final Cut Pro will only show you the top video track in the playback screen. They easiest way to edit it is to use the blade tool, (The short cut is B) and set the green indicators on the left side of the time line. Toggling these will select which video is shown in the viewer. Now use the blade to make cut points as you view through the video. Delete the over lapping sections, and your set.
Now that we know that there is continued interest in this technique, be sure to look for an upcoming episode on exactly this some time soon!