Multicam and/or audio sync

I was just reading through the "Multicam fine cutting" thread and remembered I had a question similar, but different.

I'm doing some 2 camera multicam shoots for web tutorials. If all I need is to switch back and forth between the 2 clips, it works brilliantly. But, sometimes instead of switching, I want to stack the two clips, change the sizes and then have them side by side for a split-screen effect.

If I want the audio synced up, what's the best way to keep the main multicam and also add the split screen view from time to time? I can bring in the second clip and manually eye ball the audio to sync it up to the multicam, but is there a more precise way of doing this? It seems that I can only sync up the audio (outside of the mulitcam) within the Event. It would be nice if I could sync the audio within the Project, but I don't see a way to do it.

Hopefully, I'm just missing something simple or obvious.

Thanks,
Dave

To duplicate, option drag it up.

[Bret Williams] "At the point you want to do a split screen simply duplicate that clip on top of itself, set it to the other camera angle, and apply the appropriate transform to each clip to achieve a split screen."

Cool. Just to clarify, as I won't be able to play with this for a few days, I've got the multicam in a Project with pre-made cuts and I take one of the segments and Option-drag above and change it to the other angle.

1. This is all done within the Project?

2. The new clip above will still allow me to right-click and choose a different angle?

The transform changes will be easy if I get it this far. I can verify in a few days, but I didn't realize the new copied connected clip from the multicam would allow me to change it's angle also.

Thanks,
Dave

[Bret Williams] "Yep."

Yep, you nailed it. Sometimes I'm amazed at how some things that seem like they would be a pain to do end up being quite simple. Yeah for multicam (and Bret)!

This is going to be perfect for tutorials where occasionally I want to switch camera views, but other times, a split-screen or a corner inset is what's needed.

Thanks again,
Dave