Synced clips metadata

When two or more clips are combined into a synchronized or multicam clip, Media Sync Tool decides which source clip’s metadata the result inherits, and how to carry over notes and audio track names.

Choosing the metadata source

The clip’s identity fields—Scene, Shot/Take, and Reel—are taken as a single value from one source. Choose which in Settings, under Metadata, with the Metadata source picker (Video Clips or Audio Clips). These describe the take as a whole, so they’re never split per source. Every other field is combined from both picture and sound (see below).

How notes and other fields are combined

Notes, camera names, and any custom continuity fields are kept from every source clip rather than just one, so nothing is lost when picture and sound carry different information. Media Sync Tool labels each value by where it came from, joining them on separate lines, with picture as the implicit default:

• A field that comes only from the picture is shown plain, with no prefix.
• A field that comes from the sound is labelled Sound:.
• When both sides carry a field and they differ, the picture value is labelled V: and the sound value Sound:, on separate lines.
• Identical values are never repeated—when several source clips (for example a take and its slate) carry the same value, it appears once.

On a multicam clip the picture side spans several angles. When every angle agrees, the value is shown once (as V: when sound also contributes, otherwise plain). When the angles differ, each is labelled by its camera angle name exactly as it appears in Final Cut Pro—for example A:, B:, or My Camera:—or V1:, V2: when an angle has no name. Sound is always labelled Sound:, so it is never confused with a camera angle that happens to be named “A”.

Audio subroles from mixer track names

When the recorded audio carries per-channel track names in its BWF/iXML metadata—such as Boom or Lav—Media Sync Tool always writes those names as Final Cut Pro audio subroles on the synced clip. This happens automatically for every sync.