Ok so I finally tried it again.
This time, I have 4 different takes of me playing drums, one of vocals and a couple for backing vocals.
Since I recorded the 4 takes with one camera and changing its position each time, I can't do the nice clap sync, unless I clapped to a click track exactly on the same beat everytime, which I could also not do because I was running the studio myself, so I had to set up like a 20 bar count off and then run into the live room, hit record on the camera and put on the headphones.
So to sync, I usually just import all the takes into the timeline, and sync all of them up using, say, a snare drum hit.
Then I drag in the finished audio recording and mute everything from the camera, sync that and I'm off to the races for the editing step.
But usually this is a painful process, because now I have the four video tracks going, and whenever I want to use one take, and it's not the one "on top", I have to cut a hole in all the takes that are above the one I want to use.\
So I thought, maybe this time I'll multicam it. Maybe Resolve is so awesome that it will even sync it for me if I select the "audio" option.
So I let it do that, and I THINK it worked, but I can't know for sure, since when I try to PLAY it back to finally do the multicam cuts... it absolutely chokes.
I should mention that this time, instead of 2.7k video, I went with 4K and flat color instead of GoPro color, because I wanted to grade this one in a specific way.
But I can't get it to even play the footage in realtime. There's no way I'll be able to edit this.
So I tried "Generate Optimized Files".
Nope.
Went back to Premiere and tried it over there.
So then, it failed to sync the takes for one thing. I fixed that manually but nope. Premiere is also not able to play it smoothly.
The next step is to try and convert the footage to ProRes (back on the mac).
But before I do that I wanted to make sure that will work, and if not, that I have more steps to attempt so here we are.
If I convert it all to ProRes, and it doesn't work, what else can I do?
Also I wanted to ask, right now I have all the media on an external hard drive that's connected to the mac via USB 3.0, and it's an older Porsche drive but it's 7200rpm.
So I ran a little test using BlackMagic's disk testing app. From what I see it's really not going to work if I keep the files on there so I should move them to my mac's internal SSD, yes?
Anything else I could do if that also doesn't work?
I'll attach the test results just for convenience as well.
Thanks guys!
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