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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, you can display video overlays showing 
timecode and either the clip name or the angle name.
Angle nameTimecode
 1 To open the Angle Viewer, choose Window > Viewer Display > Show Angles (or press 
Shift-Command-7).
 2 To choose a display option, do one of the following:
 •To display timecode for the clips in each angle: Choose Timecode from the Settings pop-up 
menu in the upper-right corner of the Angle Viewer. (Choose Timecode again to turn off the 
timecode display.)
Settings pop-up menu 
in the upper-right corner 
of the Angle Viewer
 •To display the names of the clips in each angle: In the Settings pop-up menu, choose Display 
Name > Clip.
 •To display the name for each angle: In the Settings pop-up menu, choose Display Name > Angle.
 •To turn off display names: In the Settings pop-up menu, choose Display Name > None. 
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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.
Drag the boundary to the left.
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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 the monitoring angle, or add or delete angles. 
Note:  When you open any multicam clip in the Angle Editor (whether from the Browser or the 
Timeline) you are actually opening the parent multicam clip. Any changes you make in the 
Angle Editor are propagated to all child clips of that multicam clip, in every project. For more 
information, see Create multicam clips in the Browser
 on page 3 31 . 
You can use the Angle Editor to edit the individual clips inside a multicam clip (similar to 
how you can edit the contents of a compound clip). The many changes you can make in the 
Angle Editor include basic edits and trimming as well as effects you would normally add in the 
Timeline, such as color corrections and transitions. 
You can copy and paste clips in the Angle Editor. Clips are pasted sequentially as overwrite edits, 
and in the monitoring angle only.
Tip:  Before you edit multicam clips in the Angle Editor, duplicate them in the Browser to 
maintain clean backup copies.
You cannot cut and switch between angles in the Angle Editor. You also cannot connect clips, 
solo clips, use the Precision Editor, perform ripple deletes, or use the Detach Audio and Break 
Apart Clip Items commands.
Open a multicam clip in the Angle Editor
Do one of the following:
 m Double-click a multicam clip in the Browser.
 mControl-click a multicam clip in the Browser or the Timeline, and choose Open in Angle Editor 
from the shortcut menu.
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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 monitoring angle. This is the angle 
you see in the Viewer when the multicam clip is playing back in the Angle Editor. You can also 
monitor the audio of any number of angles at once.
You use the monitoring angle to synchronize angles in the Angle Editor. The monitoring angle 
is not the same thing as the active angle (which you see in the Timeline). You cannot cut and 
switch between angles in the Angle Editor.
Note:  Setting the correct monitoring angle is important for the two synchronization commands 
described later in this section: Sync to Monitoring Angle and Sync Angle to Monitoring Angle.
 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 To set an angle as the monitoring angle, do any of the following:
 •Click the Video Monitor icon at the left side of the angle.
 •Choose Set Monitoring Angle from the pop-up menu next to the angle name.
 •Press Shift-V while skimming the angle.
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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 menu next to the angle name. ( To turn off audio 
monitoring, choose Monitor Audio again.)
 •Press Shift-A while skimming the angle. ( To turn off audio monitoring, press Shift-A again.)
Audio monitoring on
Audio monitoring off
The monitoring settings do not affect any of your active angles. They simply change what is 
playing back in the Viewer while you’re working in the Angle Editor.
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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 clips. The instructions below describe how to synchronize angles by locating sync 
points and then manually dragging them into alignment.
 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 Locate a sync point in one of the out-of-sync angles by skimming the angle in the Angle Editor.
As you skim, the angle is displayed in the left side of the Viewer (in place of the Angle Viewer). 
The sync points could be video or audio cues (such as a clapboard closing or a door slam).
 3 Locate the corresponding sync point in one or more angles that you want to synchronize to the 
original angle.
To simplify this process, you can add markers at the sync points, to guide you visually and to 
provide snap points.
 4 Drag the clips left or right in the rows of the Angle Editor so that the sync points align vertically.
Sync point
Sync point
Drag the clip to align 
the sync points.
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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 the synchronization of a multicam clip
The instructions below describe two automatic methods for synchronizing 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 In the out-of-sync angle, click the pop-up menu to the right of the angle name and choose one 
of the following: 
 •Sync to Monitoring Angle: This option opens a two-up display in the Viewer, showing the frame 
at the skimmer position on the left and the frame at the playhead position of the monitoring 
angle on the right. In the out-of-sync angle, skim to a frame and click to sync the angle to the 
playhead position. All the clips in the angle move together to align the frame you clicked with 
the playhead. To close the two-up display in the Viewer, click Done.
 •Sync Angle to Monitoring Angle: This option compares the audio waveforms in the selected 
angle to the waveforms in the monitoring angle, and then moves the clips in the selected 
angle to synchronize them with those in the monitoring angle. This is the same audio 
sync technology that you can use to automatically analyze and sync clips together into a 
compound clip. 
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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 already occupied by existing clips, the moved clips overwrite the existing clips.
Note:  Some audio recordings are not suited for use with this feature. Choosing this option 
may result in long processing times during which Final Cut Pro is not available for editing.
Adjust the order of angles in a multicam clip
You can adjust the order in which angles appear in the Angle Viewer and the Angle Editor.
Note:  If you’ve already started a multicam edit on a multicam clip in the Timeline, changing the 
angle order does not affect which angle is chosen for each cut and switch edit.
 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 At the right side of the Angle Editor, use the drag handles to drag the angle rows up or down to 
reorder them.
Use the drag handles 
to reorder the angles.
The angles in the Angle Editor and the Angle Viewer change to the new order.
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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 clips of the 
multicam clip.
Important:  Deleting an active angle affects the edits in your projects. The deleted angle is 
replaced with black filler in all projects.
 •To add an angle: Choose Add Angle from the pop-up menu to the right of the angle name.
A new, empty angle appears in the Angle Editor and the Angle Viewer.
 •To rename an angle: At the left side of the Angle Editor, click the name of the angle you want 
to rename. When the text becomes highlighted, type the new name.
The new name appears in the Angle Editor and (if overlays are turned on) in the Angle Viewer.
Edit multicam clips in the Timeline and the Inspector
You can switch multicam clip angles directly in the Timeline or the Info Inspector, without having 
to open the Angle Viewer.
Multicam clips generally function in the Timeline like any standard clips. You can add video and 
audio effects, transitions, and markers; attach connected clips; and apply retiming effects. You can 
apply split edits to multicam clips and edit them in the Precision Editor. You can nest multicam 
clips in compound clips and storylines.
However, multicam clips do have some unique characteristics in the Timeline:
 •You can display the names of the active video angle and the active audio angle in the 
multicam clip in the Timeline.
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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 “car left.”
Standard edit point
After the cut, the angle is “car right.”
A through edit point appears 
at the playhead position.
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