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Duplicating sequences without duplicating nested sequences in them
I am working on something that is audio only. There’s a lot of versioning and re-use of sections of it, so I decided to use FCP instead of an audio program for this because I can nest sequences in FCP and (so I thought) make changes in one sequence that will affect all sequences it is nested in.
I made my first set of audio edits that I would be re-using, and nested them into another sequence where I added the other parts I needed. The next set of edits was essentially the same with some substitutions; so I duplicated all the sequences and swapped out what I needed to.
My whole reason for working this way was so that I could make tweaks one place that would be reflected many places, and not have to make the same change in numerous places. The problem is that when I duplicate a sequence with a nest in it, it no longer points to the original nested sequence. It now is a copy of it which appears nowhere in the bins. The whole point of nested sequences is lost when duplicating the host sequence. If I make a change to the original, it does not affect these copies.
Is there a way to copy a sequence with nests in it, but keep the new version referring to the original nested sequence? I could duplicate, then copy and paste the nest into the new version; however, I have so many of these to do that this is almost more time consuming than its worth.
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“Is there a way to copy a sequence with nests in it, but keep the new version referring to the original nested sequence?”
No there’s not.
Jerry
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Apple changes the way this works nearly every version. They can’t seem to make up their mind. At on point copy and paste kept the connection, and duplicate lost it. Then vice versa. Right now I think either loses it. Editing it from the bin is the only sure fire method. And yes, ut defeats te point of nesting sequences. It basically should be a option in a dialog box anytime it is nested, duplicated or copied.
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The way it’s always been is if you copy or duplicate a nested clip then paste it, it doesn’t hold an affiliation. If you edit the nested sequence from the browser it aways does…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
DVD:https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup
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Is there a way to edit from the bin using keystrokes, like in Avid? Click and drag is such a slow clunky way to bring something into the timeline.
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Sure.
Select the Browser, cmd+4, then use the arrow keys to dig into it, then return keys open the clip in the viewer, then JKL I/O keys select the edited clip, then Fkeys perform the edit types F9-12… have to turn off the OS shortcuts to access these from the keyboard prefs in the system prefs.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
DVD:https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup
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Actually it used to be different if you option+dragged it vs. copy and paste. One of the two made a copy while the other referenced the original. It was a beautiful thing. But with v.6 they removed that bug/feature.
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