MediaCentral | UX User’s Guide : Working with Group Clips : Group Clips and Multicamera Workflows

Group Clips and Multicamera Workflows
 
Multiple cameras are often used for productions such as concerts, award shows, situation comedies, and reality TV. The resulting footage can then be used to create group clips, an asset type composed of footage recorded by more than one camera simultaneously. MediaCentral UX includes features for working with group clips in multiple-camera (multicamera) workflows.
Group Clips
Group clips are created in any of the applications in the Media Composer product family by syncing a group of clips based on common source timecode, auxiliary timecode, or marks placed in the footage. A user working in an Avid editing application can check group clips in to and out of Interplay Production. A user working in MediaCentral UX can view the group clips and use them to create a sequence. A sequence can contain a mix of master clips and group clips.
*For more information about group clips and multicamera editing, see the documentation for Media Composer or another editing application in the Media Composer product family.
Avid Editing Applications
MediaCentral UX is qualified with group clips created by the following Avid editing applications:
Media Composer v5.0 and later
Avid Symphony v5.0 and later
NewsCutter v9.0 and later
MediaCentral UX supports editing of sequences created in these applications that contain group clips, if the sequence consists of cuts only (for example, a shotlist). The sequence opens in the Media pane and the Sequence pane, and you can edit the sequence in the same way you edit a sequence you created in MediaCentral UX.
Supported Project Types and Resolutions
For a listing of supported project types and resolutions, see the MediaCentral ReadMe.
Interplay | Production
Interplay Production v3.0 and later is required for complete support of group clips and multicamera workflows.
A user working in an Avid editing application can check group clips in to and out from an Interplay Production database. Interplay Access users can view information about group clips, including master clip relatives.
Group clips and sequences that contain group clips are supported by Interplay Transfer v3.0 and by the following Interplay Production Services:
Interplay Archive v3.0
Interplay Restore v3.0, including Partial Restore
Interplay Copy v3.0
Interplay Move v3.0
Interplay Delivery v3.0, including Partial Delivery
Interplay STP Encode v3.0
Interplay Transcode, with the following limitations:
- You cannot use CROSSRATE mode to transcode group clips.
- You can use MIXDOWN mode to transcode a sequence with group clips, but only the camera angle selected in the Avid editing application timeline is included in the mixed-down master clip.
*Subclips created from group clips, group clips composed of subclips, and multigroup clips are not currently supported by Interplay Transfer or Interplay Production Services.