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Nesting Or Reference Movies?
Alright, veteran FCP users! I’ve been working with FCP6 for the past couple months now, and it’s been a frustrating transition at times after being an AVID editor for the last three years.
I’ve got two shots that I need to transition with an edge wipe. They both involve a keyed talent and a color solid in the alpha. I have about a 10-track stack of text layers creating a simple animation in the first clip. The second clip has a nested sequence of the first text animation, scaled down to match the shot change from Medium to Wide, and the talent shot and a color solid: three tracks. Applying an edge wipe to all tracks isn’t working out, due to the where each track lines up with the other. So I nest the two clips, but can’t apply a transition to the two!
In Avid, I would simply mixdown the video for each and apply a transition between the two. So far, my experience has been that FCP doesn’t do mixdowns; they nest, instead. Or you can export a reference movie and try to use that. Problem is I don’t need to be waiting 15-20 minutes to export each clip as a reference movie. Is there an easier way or is my AVID mind not seeing something obvious in FCP?
Thanks in advance!
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Nesting is what you would do, but that 15-20 minutes of exporting the self-contained movie is exactly the same amount of time it will take to render your keyed shot anyway. In the case of a build like yours, I would go ahead and export the shot as a self contained movie so the key is rendered one time and you’re done with it unless you think you’re going to have to make changes to the key later.
Be sure to put sufficient handles on your export.
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