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Making a Sequence into a Clip
I’ve done a search and didn’t find anything here based on what I’ll ask. I know my question will reflect a low knowledge base on my part of this program.
Here it is:
I want to bring audio and rendered out video (from After Effects) along with a few other elements of video together in a sequence and make them a clip. Selecting them all and dragging them up to the browser window (forget the name) where the other files are, does not a clip make.
What is my fastest or best option to put assembled pieces in a timeline of different separate elements into a clip that I can drop over and over and over again into other timelines?
I have a video intro, and yes, I should have rendered the audio with it in After Effects, but I did not. So an easy combining of them now? I could render them out and re-import them as a clip, but I don’t think that is necessary. And sorry for the length of asking my question.
Shaun K.
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“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to rack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the engagement of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.” — Albert Einstien
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If you’re really going to use it again and again, especially in multiple projects, it might be worth exporting as a self-contained movie, particularly if you’re working in a high resolution format.
What you want to fo is called nesting. Select everything in the sequence, or the items you want to nest, and use Sequence>Nest Items or Opt-C.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
Wow Tom, thanks a ton for that. I’ve never seen or known of that option before. Worked magnificently. That will save me a bunch of time and hassle.
Shaun K.
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“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to rack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the engagement of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.” — Albert Einstien
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Looks like with nesting, I can drag the nested clip up into the browser, but there it is made into a sequence rather than a clip. Bummer.
Oh well, thus we have the export as a self contained movie to be brought in again, right?
The particular files I’m dealing with were brought in from After Effects. They are short looping animations. One is the introduction with audio that was added not in AE, but rather here in FCP. The other is a small “watermark” so to speak of the brand in the bottom lower corner of the video. It has slight animation to it repeating every 22 seconds and needs to loop. I have a long sequence of it looping, clip after clip after clip of itself. I’ll need therefore to export that as a self contained clip then re-import, correct?
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That’s the way nested sequences work. Whenever you need to use it just drag the sequence from the browser and drop it into the timeline of the sequence in which you need it.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
Oh, so they do. I had tried to drop in a sequence onto another sequence before posting my initial question here, but it gave me an error notice. Okay, now I see that your great tip makes those sequences no nestable into another timeline sequence. Wonderful. I’m happy this to be the case.
Thanks so much Tom for responding and aiding me out on this.
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Oh, wait. Now what?
“Operation not allowed. You cannot nest sequences with different editing timebases.”
I had my “watermark” and dropped it into one sequence and got this? Any thoughts?
My FCP and Mac are getting buggy. Compressor freezing up, external hard drive being strange and breaking connection with FCP, so maybe that is part of the issue?
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Just what it says: nested sequences have to be in the same frame rate as the master sequence they’re placed in. If you have to mix frame rates, something best to avoid if at all possible, then you’d have to export the nest as a self-contained movie and reimport it into FCP.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
I see. I hadn’t realized I had two frame rates going. I thought all my footage was the same. Perhaps my After Effects export was solid 30 fps rather than 29.97
Shaun K.
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“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to rack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the engagement of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.” — Albert Einstien
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