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Duplicate a project – Don’t quite understand All Clips vs Compound & Multicam option
Hi All,
Just trying to extend my FCPX knowledge a little. I’ve read the user manual but I just don’t quite get the ‘All Clips’ vs ‘Multicam & compound clips only’ option.
I sort-of get what it does but can anyone give me a real-world example of where I’d want to use the latter vs copying all clips?
Cheers,
Jeff KJeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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[Jeff Kirkland] “I sort-of get what it does but can anyone give me a real-world example of where I’d want to use the latter vs copying all clips?”
SInce 10.0.6, compounds work differently. Compound clips are now tied from Project to Event, as well as Event to Project. If you change the contents of a compound clip, the compound clip is updated everywhere the compound resides. If it’s in 40 Projects and you change the contents, the clip will be update throughout all 40 Projects.
When duplicating with this option checked, you will create a new “parent” clip which means that the clip in the duped Project will have a new compound clip in the event. If you modify the original compound clip, the duped compound clip will not be updated in the duped Project.
Hope that makes sense.
THere’s also a kb shortcut to create a new parent compound clip manually if you’d like called “reference new compound clip”. You have to add it, it does not have a default shortcut. I’ve made it control-option-g. It’s very handy.
Jeremy
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