[Derek Foley]

I’ve even tried this in After Effects without luck unfortunately, as the markers again don’t seem to move when you delete layer objects with each segment of video representing the video edit you want to make.

[Derek Foley]

I wondered wether “clip markers” would be the saviour to this, but it doesn’t look like they can be named or set to be Flash cue navigation or event points unfortunately 🙁

[Derek Foley]

Thanks Stephen, yeah I have the same kind of background too with Flash so I was expecting this to be similar in AE, you’re right clients often expect it to be easy to add a few seconds here and there during a sequence.

Thanks for the tips, I’ll try them out. In the end my solution was to break the whole sequence into seperate projects then re-compile the final sequences together at the end, which made trimming and adjusting throughout a 10 minute sequence easier without needing much timeline work on shunting the rest around to make room.

If you do find anything better technique/plugin wise, do let me know thanks!

[Derek Foley]

I’m starting to realise that AE is a “different beast”, but this kind of shuffling of timeline data seems pretty fundamental to me – thanks for the advice though Dave.

If anyone else is wanting a similar solution – the best solution, well that I’ve found is to seperate your file into several seperate AE sequences to make them more manageable when making timing adjustments, then use another AE file to comp the renderings from the others together, then each complex sequence can just be a simple piece on one layer.

That said, this is early days for me with the app, so I’m sure there’s probably a better option for a better workflow for updating nested content like this that someone else can suggest.