If you missed Michael Garber's Final Cut Pro X demos at NAB this month, don't worry. He's just published his multicam broadcast workflow online for everybody to pickup tips from.
Michael Garber was giving demonstrations of his commercial workflow in a hotel suite for most of this year's NAB. We would have loved to sit next to him for the full rundown on his workflow, but we couldn't make over the pond this time.
Not to worry, he has very kindly just sent us this:
Just wanted to send you a link to a tutorial for a pretty complicated workflow that I've been working on for the past year. I cut some spots for a major network in X last June and discovered all these cool under-the-hood things you can do with WAV file iXML, Sync-N-Link, Roles (and subroles), and X2Pro. I've been giving private demos on this for about the past six months.
What I've learned is that, if you get the sound, picture, and post departments on the same page, then you can shave hours or days off of the prep for the edit -- as well as lots of time from prep for the final mix. What this does is effectively allow post and production to work closer together, since the amount of prep time is so little. Editors can start working on set within 15 minutes of receiving footage. It's all exciting stuff (if you're into that sort of thing! ;).
3rd party apps used in this vid, which I highly recommend for use with FCP X:
Intelligent Assistance Sync-N-Link X
Some great tips from Michael in the tutorial, we are very excited to see the character names metadata making it all the way through the editing process to the dub. We also have to applaud Michael for his presentation skills and humour, maybe we can convince him to keep on making the tutorials!
Don't forget to visit his blog Garbershop.
I am the Editor-in-Chief of FCP.co and have run the website since its inception ten years ago.
I have also worked as a broadcast and corporate editor for over 30 years, starting on one inch tape, working through many formats, right up to today's NLEs.
Under the name Idustrial Revolution, I have written and sold plugins for Final Cut Pro for 13 years.
I was made a Freeman of Lichfield through The Worshipful Company of Smiths (established 1601). Though I haven't yet tried to herd a flock of sheep through the city centre!
Current Editing
2020 has been busy, the beginning of the year was finishing off a new property series (cut on FCP) for Channel 4 called The Great House Giveaway. I also designed and built the majority of the graphics as Motion templates. It has been a great success and the shows grabbed more viewers in the 4pm weekday slot than any previous strand. It has been recommissioned by C4 for 60 episodes, including prime-time versions and five themed programmes. The shows have also been nominated for a 2021 BAFTA.
Although both were postponed to later in the year, I worked again on ITV's coverage of the Tour de France and La Vuelta. 2020 was my 25th year of editing the TdF and my 20th year as lead editor. The Tour was the first broadcast show to adopt FCPX working for multiple editors on shared storage.
BBC's Snooker has played a big part in my life, I've been editing tournament coverage since 1997. I'm proud to be part of a very creative team that has pioneered many new ideas and workflows that are now industry standard in sports' production. This is currently an Adobe Premiere edit.
Covid cancelled some of the regular corporate events that I edit such as trade shows & events. I was lucky however to edit, from home, on projects for Amazon Kindle, Amazon Black Friday, Mastercard and very proud to have helped local charitable trust Kendall & Wall secure lottery funding.
As for software, my weapon of choice is Final Cut Pro and Motion, but I also have a good knowledge and broadcast credits with Adobe Premiere Pro, MOGRT design and Photoshop.
Plugin Design & Development
I'm the creative force behind Idustrial Revolution, one of the oldest Final Cut Pro plugin developers. It hosts a range of commercial and free plugins on the site. One free plugin was downloaded over a thousand times within 24 hours of release.
I also take on custom work, whether it is adapting an existing plugin for a special use or designing new plugins for clients from scratch. Having a good knowledge of editing allows me to build-in flexibility and more importantly, usability.
FCP.co
Now in its 10th year and 4th redesign, running FCP.co has given me knowledge on how to run a large CMS- you are currently reading my bio from the database! Although it sounds corny, I am pretty well up on social media trends & techniques, especially in the video sector. The recent Covid restrictions has enabled live FCP.co shows online. This involves managing a Zoom Webinar through Restream.io to YouTube and Facebook.
The Future
I'm always open to new ideas and opportunities, so please get in touch at editor (at) fcp.co. I've judged film competitions, presented workflow techniques to international audiences and come up with ideas for TV shows and software programs!
