I'm starting a multicam edit of a dramatic scene - 2 actors at a table. I have 3 camera angles of the complete conversation. But the audio was recorded separately giving me a master audio file with 3 tracks for the two body mics and a boom mic. It's unclear how to get a single "standalone" audio file integrated into multicam. Greatly appreciate any suggestions.
Mac Studio, macOS 15.5
Set the metadata view in the Inspector to show Extended, then select all clips of the same source, like all Camera A clips, and set the Camera Name to CamA and Camera Angle to 1 or A or whatever you'd like. Do the same for all the Camera B and Camera C clips. For separately recorded audio, I usually set the Camera Name to Audio and the Camera Angle to 99, so it would never collide with the video angles.
Depending on how many separate takes of each scene, select the group of clips that should become a multicam, right-click and choose Create Multicam... You can use the Automatic settings for choose Custom settings to create a specific frame size. If there was no timecode recorded to all devices, enable to the Use Audio for Synchronization checkbox. This assumes the cameras also recorded audio with at least the camera mic. Once the multicam is created, you can double-click it to open it in the Angle Viewer to inspect each of the angles.
If you select the multicam in the browser, then in the Inspector choose the Audio icon, you determine which angle is to be used for the audio. In my example, only 99 should be enabled.
Set the metadata view in the Inspector to show Extended, then select all clips of the same source, like all Camera A clips, and set the Camera Name to CamA and Camera Angle to 1 or A or whatever you'd like. Do the same for all the Camera B and Camera C clips. For separately recorded audio, I usually set the Camera Name to Audio and the Camera Angle to 99, so it would never collide with the video angles.
Depending on how many separate takes of each scene, select the group of clips that should become a multicam, right-click and choose Create Multicam... You can use the Automatic settings for choose Custom settings to create a specific frame size. If there was no timecode recorded to all devices, enable to the Use Audio for Synchronization checkbox. This assumes the cameras also recorded audio with at least the camera mic. Once the multicam is created, you can double-click it to open it in the Angle Viewer to inspect each of the angles.
If you select the multicam in the browser, then in the Inspector choose the Audio icon, you determine which angle is to be used for the audio. In my example, only 99 should be enabled.
If it just one audio file, you'd have four angles (3 video and one audio).
Ideally each video file should also have reference audio, to make it easy to sync on audio.
Then you'd select the desired audio, and cut only on the video.
There are two types of audio recordings: file-per-channel vs a single polyphonic file. If you only have one file that contains all the audio channels, that is polyphonic. In the FCP audio inspector, it will show all those components. If you Google "Final Cut Pro" and "audio editing," you'll see some tutorials that cover that case.
One master audio file and 3 camera angles for multicam?
