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Yet, if you were cutting an interview with two or three separate cameras,
without sound on one or more of the cameras, then this is quite difficult. Unless
you are a lip reader then finding a sync point is not easy. You need to look for
the subtle details: the raise of a hand, bursting into laughter, a smile, a blink of
the eyes . . . these are the only reference points you will have to work with
other than actually reading the lips of the person speaking.
From experience, I can tell you that these are real situations which must be
dealt with in the real world of multi-camera production.
I consider Multicam in Final Cut Pro to be the launch-point for a new way of
making films. In previous decades shooting with multiple cameras was shunned
by small or no budget filmmakers for the simple reason that it created a
nightmare in the editing and cost a fortune to hire the cameras.
The cameras are now affordable and Multicam in Final Cut Pro provides an
excellent means to achieving a truly professional multi-camera edit. You can cut
between 2 and 16 camera angles at any one time with everything running in sync.
Multicam works and it works well.
Having this facility integrated into Final Cut Pro makes this application a dream
system that puts other, more expensive editors, to shame.
The golden age of filmmaking burns bright.
