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Timeline/sequence versioning?
In fcp7 you could just duplicate a sequence and rename from there so every day or every half day you could archive your edit and see all your changes.
I’ve done a little searching and it seems the only way to do this is to duplicate projects, which would be very annoying after the first couple of edits.
As I understand it, you cannot drag a compound clip from the timeline to the event browser if there was a way to do this that would work as storing archives of each edit. I don’t mind editing in compound clips.
Has anyone found a way to do this?
I’d love to use fcpx for some bigger projects but this is holding me back..Also will there ever be lion versioning support? The project files save as “current version” so where are the old ones?
Maybe in the 10.1 release?
Pat Harris
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I’ve been using the workflow you describe and it indeed works very well.
Typically my rule of thumb is that if I am editing a short simple project (like a TV spot) I edit and increment compound clips. For longer timelines I use projects and organize them like this:
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
How do you increment compound clips? Unless you select all make a new compound clip in the event window then paste? Seems like added steps. Also does duplicating the project duplicate all of the render files?
Pat Harris
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You can just select all in your timeline, make it a new Compound clip and then select “Duplicate as Audition”. There you go, you have two versions of your edit. Name it accordingly.
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True auditions!!! But does this bog down the timeline after 7 or 8 edits are added?
Pat Harris
http://www.CinematicDSLR.com -
It might, but not in shorter projects. Just try and see 🙂
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No it works just like Sequences did in FCP 7. Just create a empty compound clip in the event browser to edit in and dupe it as needed.
No extra steps needed, and it uses the same render files you used in the previous version of the edit.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque
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