Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 586)

Chapter 16 Working with Multiclips 253
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The Make Multiclip Sequence dialog has the following features:
 Multiclip grouping area: Your selected clips are displayed as one or more multiclips,
sorted and grouped based on the timecode of each clip. By default, if the starting
timecode numbers of two or more clips are the same, they are grouped together into
a multiclip. If a clip has a unique starting timecode number, it is grouped as its
own multiclip.
Note: You can adjust the timecode synchronization offset to group multiclips differently.
 Media Alignment column: This column shows how each clip is synchronized within
the multiclip.
 Sync Time column: This column shows the starting timecode number of each clip.
 Timecode Synchronization pop-up menu and value: You can adjust the timecode
synchronization offset so that clips with slightly different starting timecode numbers
are grouped together into one multiclip. This allows you to group together clips that
have overlapping timecode numbers but not the same starting timecode number.
This may happen if you captured your clips using Capture Now, or if several of your
camcorders started later than the others.
There are two choices for timecode synchronization:
 Use Starting Timecode/Starting timecode delta: This option allows you to set a
specific timecode offset value when your clips are grouped together as multiclip
angles. For example, if you enter 1:00 in the “Starting timecode delta” field and
then click Update, the following clips would be grouped together in a multiclip:
clip A (01:00:10:00), clip B (01:00:09:00), and clip C (01:00:11:00). Any clips that fall
within this +/–1:00 range would also be grouped together, such as clip D
(01:00:10:15) and clip E (01:00:09:06).
 Use Overlapping Timecode/Minimum overlap: This option allows you to choose how
much clips’ timecode numbers must overlap to be grouped together into a
multiclip. The lower you set this percentage, the less clips’ timecode must overlap
to be grouped together. For example, if you enter 100% in the “Minimum overlap”
field, multiclips are only created with clips that have the same exact starting and
ending timecode numbers. However, suppose you have the following two clips:
Name Timecode Duration
Overlaps
other clip Overlap
duration
Clip A 01:00:00:00–
02:00:00:00 01:00:00:00 01:30:00:00–
02:00:00:00 00:30:00:00
Clip B 01:30:00:00–
02:15:00:00 00:45:00:00 01:30:00:00–
02:00:00:00 00:30:00:00