“Lanes” vs. “tracks”… potato-poTAHto

[John Rofrano]

[Don Cobble] “I was not so much wanting to randomly shift the lanes all around as much as work in a group of clips that are a layer above the next group of clips below that are independent of each other.”

Do you use Secondary Story Lines? It seems that would be the grouping you are looking for. Just select all of the connected clips that you want to group together, right-click on one and choose Create Storyline ⌘G. That will give you a new connected storyline that you still edit in while maintaining a grouping.

~jr

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[Don Cobble]

John,I am still learning FCP then they changed on me 10.3. I got ripples 10.3 training. But no I did not even know of that I will check it out and see if thats what I am looking for.
Thank U
Don

[John Rofrano]

[Don Cobble] “But no I did not even know of that I will check it out and see if thats what I am looking for. “

Yea, look up Secondary Storylines and Compound Clips. Two different grouping mechanisms and I’m pretty sure that Secondary Storylines is what you’re after but it’s also good to know that you can make Compound Clips to tie multiple clips together as if they were one (e.g., video and external audio, or complex stacked composites).

~jr

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