horrible experience with nested items

[Samantha Johnson]

I’m having the same issue, and am starting to really despite nesting. I edit a monthly show that contains two 10-15 minute interviews. Usually I don’t nest the interviews, but this month, I edited the interviews in two sequences so that I could have all four cameras and line cut synced on separate tracks and hide them for when I needed to pull from them (the camera guys forgot to put on their shotgun mics, so I had to eyeball the cameras to make sure they were synced).

I nested these interviews because I didn’t want to afford any of the graphics getting lost or sliding, and I needed to be able to roll the entire head or tail to fit my transitions between the interviews and the open/close.

I rendered everything, and then noticed that the video on the head of the first interview started to jump (the audio was fine, though). I figured it was because I rolled the head of the clip forward 15 frames. So I deleted the render files and re-rendered. Problem solved.

Then, the second interview. I noticed a blue line on the top of the audio for the second nested item, but only over the first half of the nested item. I checked inside the nested item, and everything was a-ok. Even deleting the render files wouldn’t solve this issue. So now I’m left copying all of the items from the nested item over to the main timeline. I’m not a big fan of having my transitions too high up that I can’t see them when scrolling through to check and make sure everything is there, but it seems to be the case this time.

You would think that nests would be simple references to other sequences, but things can never make that much sense it seems…

[Luis Artigas]

Thanks for all the replies.

By the way I did get fired.

jajaja.

It’s okay though cause I started working doing motion graphics after 2 years of being self taught, this is an area I want to get into. Ultimately I want to get into VFX but I’m getting there. Also I live in a third world country with one of the worst presidents in history (Hugo Chavez) So i need to move also. I was actually born in the U.S. (washignton D.C.) but with this country’s economy its awfull hard to save enough to move…..

I am currently editing again, but have some open doors in mograph places that do a some small VFX for TVC.

You guys are so nice!

THANKX

Luis

[Luis Artigas]

Thanks for all the replies.

By the way I did get fired.

jajaja.

It’s okay though cause I started working doing motion graphics after 2 years of being self taught, this is an area I want to get into. Ultimately I want to get into VFX but I’m getting there. Also I live in a third world country with one of the worst presidents in history (Hugo Chavez) So i need to move also. I was actually born in the U.S. (washignton D.C.) but with this country’s economy its awfull hard to save enough to move…..

I am currently editing again, but have some open doors in mograph places that do a some small VFX for TVC.

You guys are so nice!

THANKX

Luis

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Luis,
Buena suerte y buen año.
Rafael

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