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Nesting CompoundClips and Secondary Storylines -what are the rules?
Ok, my first major project involving nested Compound Clips and I’m going a bit wonky.
My understanding is that you can Create Compound Clips out of anything in your project. And that Compound Clips can contain Compound Clips which can contain….
so
CompoundClip > CompoundClip > CompoundClip >CompoundClip etc
Sort of like PreComps in AfterEffects…
Secondary Storylines can’t directly contain other Secondary Storylines, BUT, you can create a Compound Clip from a Secondary StoryLine, which in turn can be turned into yet another Secondary Storyline, etc
so
SecondaryStoryline > CompoundClip > SecondaryStoryline > CompoundClip etc
Am I correct so far?
The logical question is, how many levels deep can-should you nest and, what are the performance penalties with increased nesting?
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2 Replies
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Compound inside compound spells trouble. I hardly ever use compound clips. So don’t if not necessary.
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So only use Compound Clips if absolutely necessary?
I’m still a FCPX novice but I would imagine its pretty difficult to have a project thats even remotely complex without making use of compound clips, or perhaps I’m not making good use of Roles, etc
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