User Guide

Previous Release Information About Final Cut Pro 5.0.2

The following information was included with Final Cut Pro 5.0.2, a maintenance release

of Final Cut Pro 5 that resolves performance and other issues.

Working with Multiclips

Improvements have been made in these areas: exporting EDLs, switching angles with

speed settings applied, media management, recapturing single angles, resynchronizing

multiclip angles in the Viewer, maintaining master-affiliate clip relationships when

switching angles, and inserting or deleting angles from multiclips whose angle

durations vary widely.

Inserting a Multiclip Angle into All Affiliated Multiclips

When you insert or overwrite an angle in a multiclip in Final Cut Pro 5.0, only the

current multiclip is affected. In Final Cut Pro 5.0.2, you now have the option to insert an

angle into all multiclips affiliated with the one you are currently inserting into. This

option makes it easy to insert a new multiclip angle into many multiclips at once. This

can be useful if you already have an edited multiclip sequence created by switching

and cutting, and you want to add a new angle to all of the multiclips in that sequence.

Note: For more information about inserting and overwriting multiclip angles, see the

Final Cut Pro 5 User Manual, Volume II, page 271.

For example, suppose you have a sequence that contains a multiclip that has three

angles (camera A, B, and C), and you have performed several real-time cuts between

the angles. Each time you cut to a new multiclip angle in the Timeline, a new affiliated

instance of the multiclip is created. The Insert New Angle Affiliates option allows you to

easily add a fourth angle (for example, from camera D) to all of the affiliated multiclips

in the Timeline at once.

To insert a new angle into all affiliated multiclips at the same time:

1 Double-click a multiclip in the Browser or Timeline to open it in the Viewer.

2 Drag a clip from the Browser to one of the multiclip angles displayed in the Viewer.

3 Continue to hold down the mouse button until the Insert New Angle, Insert New Angle

Affiliates, and Overwrite Angle overlays appear in the Viewer.

4 Move the pointer over the Insert New Angle Affiliates overlay, then release the

mouse button.

The dragged clip becomes a new angle in the multiclip, as well as in all affiliated multiclips.