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Video Mixdown
I am trained on the Avid method of doing this but I need to know how to mixdown 2 tracks of video on Final Cut Pro
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In Final Cut Pro, they call a video mixdown “nesting”. What you have to do is select both video tracks, go to the Sequence menu > Nest (items), name the nest, and click Ok.
There you have it. The Final Cut Pro video mixdown.
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[Mark Jackson] “Nest (items), name the nest, and click Ok.
There you have it. The Final Cut Pro video mixdown.”
Not quite, not always.
If you want a true “mixdown” you need to choose:
Export> Quicktime Movie > click “Self Contained”
That will give you a complete “dub” (new file on the HD) of the video you exported that can be re-imported to FCP for use in another timeline.
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Nesting will do the same thing. Nest it then render it and it works like an individual clip. The same function exists on the Avid and is also called nesting. Never understood why anyone would do a video mixdown after they introduced nesting in 1996.
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I like to create the “self-contained” QT files.
Because it can be found outside the program (in FCP) as a stand-alone QT movie (a name can be assigned to it and I like that feature.
Its a sort of on-drive filing system (external from FCP) for often-used produced video clips and animated backgrounds.
A nest CAN get inadvertently altered and it’s render file has a default name on the disk.
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