Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 627)

Consider the following example. Suppose you recorded a soccer game with four
camcorders (each starting with the same timecode), and you captured each reel as ten
individual media files (each representing a different phase of the event). The total number
of clips in your project is 40 (4 reels x 10 media files). Instead of creating each of the ten
multiclips individually, you can select all the clips at once and use the Make Multiclip
Sequence command. A sequence containing ten multiclips is created and the multiclips
are placed in chronological order.
When Should You Use the Make Multiclip Sequence Command?
You may want to use the Make Multiclip Sequence command in the following situations:
• Whenever you have a large number of clips or subclips that you want to make into
multiclips.
• If you have footage from a professional multicamera production, in which all tapes
recorded matching timecode from a master timecode generator.
• If you have footage in which all the tapes begin with matching timecode, but some
camcorders recorded continuously while others stopped and started. As long as events
occur on each tape at the same timecode number, you can use the Make Multiclip
Sequence command.
Important: If you shot an event with camcorders that were not recording simultaneous
identical timecode, you should use the Make Multiclip command and use In or Out
points to visually synchronize each camera angle. For more information, see
“Creating
Individual Multiclips.”
About the Make Multiclip Sequence Dialog
The Make Multiclip Sequence dialog works similarly to the Make Multiclip dialog, but
there are some important differences.
627 Chapter 42 Working with Multiclips