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Nesting Conundrum
I am onlining a show which contains nested sequences. The original nested sequences are 5 hours long and there are only a few shots from them in the final show. I am conforming the show and FCP wants to put the entire original nested sequences back online. I am really close to filling up my 5 terabytes of disk space.
I am looking to
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3 Replies
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just a thought….
can you navigate into the nest and select the few shots you need, move them out of the nest, maybe in a temp sequence.
Then you might be able to minimize your recapture. You mentioned that you don’t need most of the nest, so this might work. -
From what I am gathering from the stuff I am reading, I am not the first to get hammered by this one. Lesson learned! The offline editor did his best in most cases to eliminate the nested sequences. I will try what you have offered as a solution and hope for the best. The only problem I have is that I have already captured most of the footage for the show and I have to figure out a way to create new master clips without going through the standard make offline project business.
Thanks for the reply,
Francis
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If you drag the nest into the browser you can Apple or Option drag (I forget which) back into the timeline and you should get the individual shots (“de-nested”) that you need.
This kind of thing is one of my pet peeves about FCP having been an Avid editor for years. If you take a project offline and then at a later point try to capture just the final sequence, it may well try to recapture the entire clips rather than just the sections in the timeline. I believe one of the “fixes” in 5.1 is the ability to media manage an offline project though.
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