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Reverse: Cutting sequence into another sequence
Hi –
This may be a little noob (but that’s why we’re in the basics forum, right?) –I still don’t know if I understand the concept of nesting, and if by taking a sequence as a source and cutting it into another sequence is what nesting is – but the “unnesting” procedures I’ve looked at don’t make any sense.
Basically, I want the clips in my sequence that say “sequence A” to no longer reflect that they came from the previous sequence, but now reflect the original source clips…as if I cut them in from the raw. The sequences they were taken from were just string-outs, and don’t even have any cuts in them. So it’s not complicated.
I would go through the work of matching back and cutting/pasting, but when I double click on a clip in the timeline, it opens up the sequence the clip came from, but doesn’t select the in/out from the orig. seq., nor does it even match back to the same frame…it just opens the previous sequence wherever it was last playing.
am I making any sense?
any help is appreciated.power mac g5 dual 2ghz, 2gb SD ram, osx 10.5.6, FCP 4.5, photoshop 7, DVD SP 3
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5 Replies
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What you have described is indeed nesting. But why nest at all? Why don’t you simply copy all, or some, of the clips from the original timeline and paste them into the new sequence?
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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Open your nested sequence in viewer (by selecting it in timeline and hitting Enter, not by double-clicking). Then go to Modify / Make Subclip (Command+U). This will create a new, shorter sequence.
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Yes – I’m now asking myself why nest at all…it just seems to complicate things. It would be nice to cut from one sequence (as a source) into another – but the match-back ramifications seem extraneous. Luckily I haven’t gone too far in the project and can start over.
thanks!power mac g5 dual 2ghz, 2gb SD ram, osx 10.5.6, FCP 4.5, photoshop 7, DVD SP 3
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[josh cook] “It would be nice to cut from one sequence (as a source) into another – but the match-back ramifications seem extraneous.”
If you copy and paste edited clips from one timeline to another there are no bad match-back ramifications.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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what you are looking for is listed in the help under “Editing the Content of One Sequence into Another
Without Nesting It”
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