New secret sauce all about whether you should be using synchronized or multicam clips in your workflows (I’ll spoil it – use multicam)… especially when it comes to trying to sync multiple audio sources to the same video clip. This can happen occasionally… especially in music video or if your sound guy screws up and exports microphones as individual files instead of a single multichannel WAV file (as you’ll see in the tutorial example).

You’re going to have all kinds of problems doing that unless you make a multicam clip instead, and spread your audio out across multiple angle. Also, if you’re curious about how to do that quickly, here’s a blast from the past tutorial from a couple years ago I did on Batch Renaming and Advanced Multicam sync that should give you a really good sense of the best ways to prep your multicam clips:

http://wemakemovies.org/2012/10/fcpx-batch-renaming-advanced-multicam-sync/

The truth is that multicam clips are a far more powerful and flexible way of putting your clips together… and because the FCPX XML has improved so much, and multicam clips now transfer easily to places like Resolve, in my opinion there isn’t much of a reason for synchronized clips anymore outside of Timecode based workflows like Sync N Link.

Anyway, if you’re into this kind of thing… just wait til you see what we have planned in the FCPWORKS Suite at NAB this year:

http://www.fcpworks.com/nab2015/

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sam Mestman, FCPWORKS.

This blog post contains the personal musings of FCPWORKS’ Workflow Architect, Sam Mestman. Sam’s also a regular writer for fcp.co and MovieMaker Magazine, teaches post workflow at RED’s REDucation classes, and is the founder and CEO of We Make Movies, a film collective in Los Angeles and Toronto which is dedicated to making the movie industry not suck. If you’ve got any FCP X questions or need some help putting together a system, drop him an email at workflow@fcpworks.com and you can follow him on Facebook or Twitter at @FCPWORKS.

Hey everyone,

As many of you guys know… a really cool app called Primaries Exporter got released a week or two ago that solved a MAJOR issue FCPX users have been facing… the lack of batch exporting.

You can find all of the info about it on this fcp.co report.

Anyway, this app largely came about because Mike Matzdorff and I reached out to Thomas Szabo after he’d updated an app that many of you know called Clip Exporter which fixed FCPX users’ After Effects workflow issues and asked him, “Clip Exporter already kind of does batch export… but it’s not exactly what we need for dailies… is there any way you can make an app that takes advantage of FCPX’s metadata capabilities to easily turn around dailies in batches from the timeline… and can it do thumbnails and make spreadsheets?”

Next thing we knew… we were beta testing an app that solved all of our problems. Congratulations and many thanks to Thomas for putting in the time to fill this need. I think the app is a game changer for on-set post and dailies delivery for high end productions.

For high end feature film and stock footage workflows, Primaries Exporter is a godsend as it allows you to easily take advantage of the advanced metadata capabilities in FCPX to allow you to deliver extremely high quality dailies and exports based on the metadata you’ve entered in your events.

If you’re making a feature right now and your producers want dailies… this is the app you’ve been waiting for.

If you’re wondering why, well, I made a pretty comprehensive video all about it. Yes, it’s long, but I cover a lot of topics. Basically, I take you from FCPX to Shot Notes X to Sync N Link to Resolve to FCPX to Primaries Exporter to show you how all these tools can combine to create a fully synced, properly renamed library with completely searchable metadata with high end dailies deliverables that have source timecode embedded in a highly automated way… also, you save a ridiculous amount of money in comparison to industry standard high end dailies software like Colorfront… and there’s far less metadata entry with this workflow.

Anyway, not all of you will need all of the things I cover here, so if you want to jump ahead to the section that’s of most interest to you, here’s some timings of where to jump to:

• 6:38 – Adding footage and batch syncing audio in Davinci Resolve
• 8:28 – What to do in the Resolve Edit Page
• 9:50 – Adding Source Timecode in Resolve to your dailies
• 11:33 – Resolve deliver page settings
• 12:46 – FCPX – Add metadata to Resolve dailies with Shot Notes
• 15:51 – FCPX – Prepping for Primaries Exporter (Audio component management, etc.)
• 20:16 – Primaries Exporter workflow
• 25:30 – Primaries Exporter Metadata List

The purpose of this video is to show you what you CAN do with all these apps… and hopefully it’ll help you work smarter and easier, and get started editing a whole lot faster.

We’re going to have a lot more workflow videos coming your way over the next few weeks… and stay tuned for some official FCPWORKS NAB announcements. For the moment, check out this special page and sign up for our FCPWORKS NAB updates: http://www.fcpworks.com/nab2015/

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sam Mestman, FCPWORKS.

This blog post contains the personal musings of FCPWORKS’ Workflow Architect, Sam Mestman. Sam’s also a regular writer for fcp.co and MovieMaker Magazine, teaches post workflow at RED’s REDucation classes, and is the founder and CEO of We Make Movies, a film collective in Los Angeles and Toronto which is dedicated to making the movie industry not suck. If you’ve got any FCP X questions or need some help putting together a system you can follow Sam on Facebook or Twitter at @FCPWORKS.

Sam here… Chris Fenwick and I are trading podcasts this week. Yesterday, on the inaugural episode of my podcast, We Make Movies: Film Central, Chris and I talked about the business side of editing… and we followed it up with today’s episode of FCPX Grill, where Chris and I talk Logic Pro-FCPX workflow and why it might be time for you to take another look at it as your go-to DAW … and we also dive into some bonus topics, including a brief discussion what FCPWORKS NAB plans might be this year… and I’m pretty confident in saying that I think the FCPX community is going to LOVE a lot of what we have planned there.

Anyway, it’s been a blast talking with Chris… and if you aren’t listening to FCPX Grill or Digital Cinema Cafe, you’re missing out… and if you caught the first episode of my podcast, and you liked it, there’s a whole lot more of that coming your way soon.

Check out FCPX Grill Here:

http://digitalcinemacafe.com/category/fcg/

Check We Make Movies: Film Central here –

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id955566793

Check Out Digital Cinema Cafe Here:

http://digitalcinemacafe.com/category/dcc/