Phantom Nested Sequence

[Bob Flood]

Alexander

Someone here once said that when you cut and paste your nests from one sequence to another, you lose the link and FCP treats the copy as a separate iteration ( I believe they call this a feature)

HOWEVER

nesting does not work! i tried creating a timeline, doing some work in it, then cutting it into another timeline. it stayed linked for a period of time, but then “myseriously” becam unlinked just like you described. for the life of me i cannot figure out how.

SO

i don’t do it that anymore. I always export a native quicktime of my sub-timeline and bring it back in. If i have to make changes, i avoid the “file in use” error when i try to overwrite by rendering it to the root of the media drive (aka the topmost level) and copy it over the old one in the media folder.

its a pain, but at least I know which timeline i am working on. What i find scary is that FCP lets you make multiple copies of timelines, bins, or anything, all with the same name!

hope this helps

bee eph

[Steven Lambion]

I use nested sequence every now and again. I’ve realized that you should limit how much you use it. If your doing a huge project with many layers or a long timeline then it might work, other than that – no.

It seems that nested sequences take up ram, processing power, and most of all… Render time!! They can also slow down finalcut and become really buggy when they take up memory.

A few bugs:
-After rendering the video will stay still will your trying to play it.
-The sequence will unlink it self, like what happen to you.
-while dragging the head over the sequence Final Cut Pro will slow down and sometimes stop for a few minutes to think(This is for every frame).
-There are also export bugs that happen.