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Making imbedded sequences individual shots
Hello,
I have an edited sequence in FCP in with there are “imbedded” sequences. Basically I used other sequences with in and out point to edit my maine sequence.
That poses some problems in Color, who can’t get the right in and out points of those shots coming from other sequence.
What I’d like to do is make those shotes independent. What is the simplest way ? I’d like to avoid copying each shot to an other sequence, and exporting in QuickTime to reinsert in the Timeline of the maine sequence.
Thanks for reading !
Alex
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6 Replies
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the term you are looking for is “nested” sequences
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1040025#1040025
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Yup, nesting as a matter of course is a bit of a nightmare … although FCP 7 apparently handles nests far more robustly than previous versions so it may be “better” than it was. But you are asking about the elusive Video Mixdown function, not nests. Unfortunately the Video Mixdown function is elusive in FCP because it doesn’t exist in FCP. I understand that you don’t “want” to export as a QuickTime Movie, import the created file and then cut that back into the sequence in place of the original, but unfortunately that is exactly what you have to do if a Video Mixdown is what you need. Its also possible to simply render a marked section and then manually find and pull that (newest) render file out of the Video Renders folder … still far from ideal but thats the way it is for the moment.
Andy
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Ehm…Thanks for that information !
I was thinking on going to FCS 3 with FCP 7. Will that make a change in the “easiness” of the task ? – I want to find out If I better get FCS 3 quickly or not 🙂
Thanks for your attention,
Alex
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Just a word of wisdom:
sometimes there’s no “easy” solution. Sometimes you just have to sweat it out and do it the long way. And often doing it the long way is quicker than waiting to figure out the “easy” solution
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no, this is the same in FCP7.
video mixdown, or auto-bake would be a neat idea.nick
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Ok, thanks for the information.
Doing a mix-down myself before sending to Color not to bad it’s just not the most practical… I just find it interesting to note the “defaults” of a program wile using it…It changes form the usual case when the problem comes from the human manipulation…the editor in our case.
I hope Apple get the informations of those little things so that when they update they fix them up 🙂
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