• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Editing in Master Sequences that Auto Update Edits in “Affiliate” Sequences

  Posted by Caine Mitchell on June 14, 2010 at 8:38 am

  Hi there

  It was mentioned to me today that you can have a Master Sequence [containing say the end to end cut of an 80 min Feature] and several “Affiliate Sequences” [say 4 in the length of 20 min Reels that make up the 80 min Feature edit] – of these you are able to link the Affiliate Sequences to the Master Sequence so that say if you have trimmed a few shots in the Master Sequence the edits would then be reflected simultaneously in the corresponding “Affiliate Sequence”.

  So I’m not talking about Multicam editing but more like say [as analogy] using an excell database where if you make a change in one collumn, the result is reflected in the corresponding collumn.

  I have never heard of this before in FCP and am amazed that I have not. Is this a known function or are they mistaken with the capabilities inherent with another app.

  Thanks for your time reading this post 😉

  Caine Mitchell replied 15 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Jerry Hofmann

  June 15, 2010 at 9:03 pm

  There’s something sort of like this only it’s the other way around. You can nest sequences in a “master” sequence, and if you change one of the original 4 shorter nested sequences (like in your example) the Master sequence will update.

  Jerry

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  Caine Mitchell

  June 16, 2010 at 2:22 am

  Hi Jerry

  Thanks for your reply.

  Yes I thought this would be the closest thing to what I originally thought possible.

  Definitely no other automated way than you can think of?

  Mitch
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  Jerry Hofmann

  June 16, 2010 at 1:06 pm

  There’s definitely no other way to have an edit change in one sequence update in another sequence. It’s a good workflow though. While your editing, it’s always easier to work with a shorter sequence than a long one, so it makes sense that the software would be designed to work as I described above.

  Jerry

  Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski.

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  Caine Mitchell

  June 16, 2010 at 11:27 pm

  I agree. And thanks for the additional confirmation Jerry.

  Kind regards, Caine.

  Mitch

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