Apple Final Cut Pro X 10.1.2 User Guide

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 •One bank of 9 angles and another bank of 7 angles, with the first bank as the currently 
displayed bank:
 4 To navigate banks of angles, do any of the following: 
 •To display a bank’s angles in the Angle Viewer: Click the bank switcher icon for the bank.
 •To display the previous bank: Press Option-Shift-Semicolon (;).
 •To display the next bank: Press Option-Shift-Apostrophe (‘).
Show overlays in the Angle Viewer
For each angle that appears in the Angle Viewer,...

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Adjust the Angle Viewer display
You can adjust the Angle Viewer display to suit your needs.
 mTo adjust the number of angles in the Angle Viewer: In the Settings pop-up menu in the upper-right 
corner of the Angle Viewer, choose either 2 Angles, 4 Angles, 9 Angles, or 16 Angles.
Angle Viewer in the 
9 Angles display setting
Settings pop-up menu
 mTo adjust the size of the Angle Viewer and the main Viewer: Drag the boundary between them.
Drag the boundary to the right....

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 mTo make the Angle Viewer a vertical column: Drag the boundary to the left, and drag the Final Cut 
Pro toolbar downward to expand the Viewer quadrant vertically. ( This vertical column view is 
available only in the 2 Angles and 4 Angles views.)
Drag the boundary to the left.Drag the toolbar down.
Sync and adjust angles and clips in the Angle Editor
At any time, you can open multicam clips in the Angle Editor to adjust the synchronization and 
the angle order, set...

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The Angle Editor opens in the Timeline area at the bottom of the Final Cut Pro window. Although 
similar to the Timeline, the Angle Editor provides a separate interface dedicated to editing angles 
and clips inside multicam clips. Each angle in the multicam clip appears as a separate row in the 
Angle Editor. 
The Angle Editor appears 
in the Timeline area.
Set video and audio monitoring in the Angle Editor
In the Angle Editor, you can set any one angle to be the...

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The Video Monitor icon turns white, and the entire angle is highlighted in light gray. The angle 
plays in the Viewer when you play back the multicam clip in the Angle Editor. Only one angle can 
be the video monitoring angle at a time.
Click to set the monitoring angle.
 3 To turn on audio monitoring for an angle, do one of the following:
 •Click the Audio Monitor icon once. ( To turn off audio monitoring, click the icon again.)
 •Choose Monitor Audio from the pop-up...

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Tip:  You can use audio monitoring to double-check the synchronization of individual angles 
in a multicam clip. Open the clip in the Angle Editor, and turn on audio monitoring for two or 
more angles at a time. You will hear immediately if the angles are in sync or if you need to adjust 
them further. 
Manually adjust the synchronization of a multicam clip
A primary function of the Angle Editor is to provide an easy way to correct out-of-sync angles in 
your multicam...

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If an angle contains more than one clip, you can easily select all clips in the angle so that you can 
move them all at once. To do this, choose Select Clips in Angle from the pop-up menu next to 
the angle name.
To select all clips in an angle, choose Select Clips in Angle 
from the pop-up menu.
You can then drag the clips left or right to move them all by the same amount.
When all clips in the angle are selected, you can drag 
them all at once.
Automatically adjust...

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If you select clips in one or more angles before choosing this option, the command name 
in the pop-up menu changes to Sync Selection to Monitoring Angle. When you choose this 
option, Final Cut Pro moves all of the selected clips to synchronize them with those in the 
monitoring angle. If there is a selection in the monitoring angle, this option is not available.
WARNING:  This option does not ripple clips forward. If clips are moved to a Timeline location 
that is...

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Add, delete, or rename angles in a multicam clip
 1 To open the Angle Editor, do one of the following:
 •Double-click a multicam clip in the Browser.
 •Control-click a multicam clip in the Browser or the Timeline and choose Open in Angle Editor 
from the shortcut menu.
 2 Do any of the following:
 •To delete an angle: Choose Delete Angle from the pop-up menu to the right of the angle name.
The angle is removed from the Angle Editor, the Angle Viewer, and all child...

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 •Cut and switch edit points appear as dotted lines in the Timeline. These are through edits (in 
which the video or audio content on either side of the edit point is continuous). In the case 
of multicam editing, through edits indicate that the content on either side of the edit point 
comes from the same multicam clip. A black dotted line indicates that different angles from 
the same multicam clip are on either side of the edit point. 
Before the cut, the angle is...