audio flexibilty

[Craig Alan]

[Bret Williams] “If you break apart a compound clip it’s gone. You’ve blasted away the compound clip and just returned it back to a bunch of clips. “

Please correct if I get this wrong:
In the timeline, you can makes changes to the CC as a whole but not its components.
Even in its own timeline I can’t get humpty dumpty back together again??
However in its own timeline changes can be made to a CC components broken apart and these changes are made to the CC as if it were not broken apart.
It remains in the browser as if it were not broken apart and effects all uses of the CC.
So if you break it apart in a timeline other than its own, it won’t effect other uses of the same CC. And if you make a new one from the modified components its won’t effect other uses. Is that why, maybe?
So the only way to see these changes in context is to toggle back and forth between the CC in its own timeline and the timeline you have placed it in.

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[Craig Alan]

I would like to collapse components together and apart without saving them to the browser unless I want to save them and more meaningfully perhaps export them to a shared media folder. Shared meaning clips to be reused in other projects. To me they are just a way to simplify the timeline and marry components and that marriage should be nondestructive. If you are not careful you end up with 6 versions of a CC just because you needed to break it apart and put it back together. Which is why I would guess it can open in its own timeline. But as you point out, it’s now out of context. And you can’t close the extra timeline.

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