2 editors working on same project – combine timelines

[Tom Wolsky]

Don’t do it. It’s not worth it. For a project of that length one editors can and should be able to do it without difficulty. You’ll have more problems trying to get two editors working on the same project than it’s worth for a piece of that size.

All the best,

Tom

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[Mark Raudonis]

I’m with Tom on this one…. BAD idea.

We regularly work with a team of editors on the same show, but these are hour long shows that can
be broken up into acts. Everyone gets their own 6-10 minute chunk to work on. When done, we just
combine them together into one long timeline.

There is no way that I know of for two people to be working on the exact same timeline simultaneously.
Think about it. One editor’s cuts would overwrite and invalidate the other editor’s work.

I’m curious how you think this could work creatively? How do you get two editors working on the same 3:00 piece at the same time?

Mark

[Jason Brown]

Wasn’t sure if it could…obviously the creativity would be slightly different, but the editors are so close in their style, it could work.

I was just trying to see if anyone was doing it. I’m new to FCP and it has so many capabilities that surpass what we could to on AVID and I wanted to see if there were workflow capabilities that could help us.

I’ll reserve the 2 editor setup for longer form pieces broken up into *acts*.

Thanks guys!

[Stace Carter]

Jason, completely agreed with all the above. There is a common practice of dividing up duties like graphics, etc, to spread out the work – so while you might not have 2 folks working on the exact same thing, you might have one supporting the other.

Cheers,
Stace

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