Compound clip question
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I’m organizing a large project by making each individual scene a compound clip after it’s cut together. I then have a “master” timeline where all the compound clips are lined up as the scenes should play. I was under the impression that as I go into each scene’s individual timeline and continue to tweak the edit (decomposed) that the changes I make are automatically applied to the compound clips waiting over in my master timeline. I’m finding this isn’t the case. Changes aren’t applied to the compound clips. Am I doing something wrong or am I mistaken about how compound clips work? Sony Vegas does this but it’s called “nesting”.
Hi Mike,
Compound clips are timelines, if you right click a compound clip you can open in timeline viewer and make your changes there. These changes are then reflected back in the master timeine.
Thanks for clearing that up. I’m new to Resolve from Vegas. I’m finding it to be a much more powerful software but definitely not as intuitive as Vegas.
You can use a timeline as a source clip which is different to making a compound clip and using that. Drag a timeline into a new timeline and it looks and behaves like a compound clip but changes made in the original timeline are reflected in the version edited in another timeline.
I use this technique to do alternate versions so that grade changes made in the original are automatically reflected in all the alternate versions too.
After trying your technique this is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thanks so much!
It is very much like the old nesting in FCP7 and I assume Vegas. You can later select the clip and ‘Decompose in Place’ to turn it back into individual clips on original layers/ tracks
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