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New Compound Clips in 10.0.6
It’s curious to me the change they made in the compound clip. Now it’s more like FCP7, where the compounded clip is added to your event.
I often use compound clips as a way to keep my timeline clean, so I don’t need to be able to place the compound clip in my timeline more than once, and I don’t actually care if it’s available in my event. I find it a pain in the rear to try to come up with names for these things, or have them clutter up my browser.
I guess it will help the project bloat that happens when people compound a clip, then slice it up into multiple pieces in their timeline. Now there’s just the one iteration of the compound. If you change anything inside one, it ripples the changes to every instance of the clip in your timeline. Sobeit.
However, I had a trick I used I may need to rethink. I used compounds and auditions as a way to create alternate sections of a sequence. I’d collapse a chunk of my timeline, duplicate it as an audition, then I could make multiple changes inside the audition of the compound. This way I could create auditions that didn’t just swap a clip or two, but could swap more intricate sections of editing.
Looks like I can still do that. Compound the section I want to mangle – duplicate the compound in the event browser – make my changes – add the copy to the original compound as an audition. The curious thing is that I can’t select the compound in the timeline and open it as a timeline. I must find the compound in the browser and open it there.
I also tried selecting the compound in the timeline and duplicating as audition. It created a copy of the compound as an audition, but the duplicate was not in the event browser. Strangely, changes I make by opening the compound in timeline view, also happen to the copy in the audition.
Interesting behaviors. Looks like I still have a way to do this however. Duplicate the compound in the event browser and not use “duplicate as audition” like I used to.
Forgive my rambling.
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Any Compound Clip can be made unique by selecting it in the Timeline and then Clip>Reference New Parent Clip. This would pretty much allow you to have the previous version’s behavior when you need it.
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thats a shame about the compound clip with duplicate and add to audition not working as it used to, that was a sweet feature
is there the do it in event and then add to project workaround?
also I found the project bloat to have gone when I did the chop the compound clip in the timeline and look at the project file size. be good to see if this has fixed the sluggishness I found on my older imac with projects with compound clips, think it will, very encouraging update!
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As with the new persistent ranges, this fundamentally changes some of the things the we liked about fcpx, even though it was different from fcp7. It slows down the exhaulted speed of editing in X.
I do welcome the application performance increase, however.
You could always setup a smart collection and reject the compounds to reduce clutter. Just make sure you don’t have a range set on them, otherwise only the range gets rejected. :-/
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