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Multi-projects in one timeline?
Hello to all… My question is I do a local television show and I am thinking of jumping from 7 to X. The way I edit the show was to import different segments of the show into their own folder, edit the piece, then create a final project for just the show and export it out at the 28:30 required time. Is there a way in “X” to bring other projects into one time line or do I need to edit the piece, export then re-import the piece and line it up? This concerns me because sometimes the show is long or short so I would be doing a lot of exporting and reediting to get the project complete. If anyone has a better system or pipeline on how they achieve this I would love any and all advice.
Thank you
Chuck -
6 Replies
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Make a compound clip in your Event.
Open a current Project.
Select all.
Copy.
Open the compound clip “in timeline” (Right click and choose open in timeline).
Paste.
You now have one clip that represents your other Project.
Continue.
Once done, make a new Project.
Bring all compounds in order to the Project.
You can then choose to break them apart or not.
Jeremy
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Thank you Jeremy. So compound clip is basically nesting the item. That’s what I was looking for. But if anyone has better work around or pipeline that would be easier, I would love to hear about it.
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Chuck, Jeremy’s method is certainly one solution, however I’ve found it to eventualy choke up your project.
What I do now is build my sequences (or segments in your case) as individual projects, when ready to build the final project, depending on the complexity I either copy and past between projects, or I place the project in a compound (on the timeline), then copy/paste the compound in the final project. I know it probably sounds a little contradicting, but I’ve found FCPX to be a lot more stable working it this way.
If the above is hard to follow, let me know and I’ll try putting a few screen grabs up.
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Tony, I think I get ya. it sounds pretty much the same as I used to do in 7 but with different terminology. In the long and short of it, I can just edit a whole seg, after it’s done compound (nest) and then bring it to a final time line for the complete show (project). I guess when looking at it now my big question was, can I copy one project to another time line or project?
Thanks so much for the help;
Chuck -
Yep absolutely, you can treat projects as individual “sequences”, and yes you can certainly copy/paste between projects.
In other words if your program goes for 28:30, you can build 3x separate segments (projects), then when ready, combine these projects in a final project.
Example:
Project 1 = Segment 1
Project 2 = Segment 2
Project 3 = Segment 3
Project 4 = Final ( all above segments copied & pasted in this project). -
Of course… you can do any project that you want … select and copy all clips and paste them in your final project. You can use “Compound clip” if you prefer
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