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  • “Grouping” video clips without nesting?

    Posted by Tim Green on July 24, 2008 at 4:03 am

    Is there a way to “group” two or more video clips on the same track in the timeline, along with their audio, without nesting them? For example, I have two clips that are exactly 20 frames apart from each other. I want them to move together but still be visible as two separate clips. Am I missing something? This seems a glaring omission from the program if I’m not. Like the group command in Illustrator. Two objects move together, but remain separate objects for editing.

    Tom Meegan replied 17 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Tom Meegan

    July 28, 2008 at 6:10 pm

    Why do you want to avoid nesting?

    Nesting works the way you describe – just open the nest as a sequence and make modifications there.

    Also you can create nests with larger resolutions than your main sequence to allow you to maintain the resolutions of your original files.

    Of topic a little bit – Final Cut does a good job of simple motion graphics and compositing, but Motion or After Effects are more specialized tools for graphics work.

    Best,

    Tom

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