Shane Ross
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[Trevor Asquerthian] “Multicam = nesting”
No, it isn’t. Not in the way the OP is talking about.
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I’m not sure why NESTING was invented…maybe it is akin to COLLAPSE in the Avid realm, where we’d collapse a series of shots into one clip so we could drop on an effect that would then affect everything in that. But collapsing was problematic because when you went to online you needed to uncollapse to do the online properly.
Then FCP came along with NESTING, and it was supposed to be better because you could edit the sequence separately and the nest would update. Only, it wouldn’t all of the time. It was spotty at best. So, because of that…
NESTING IS EVIL.
Vile, horrid, crap. It really needs to be avoided at ALL costs. There is absolutely no reason to do it, and 15,000 reasons not to do it.
1. If you have 5 nests in a master sequence and you want to make a change in one, you need to open the source sequence, and if you make a change, it may or may not update in the sequence.
2. You need to leave the master sequence to make a change. When you could very easily just have copy-pasted your smaller sequence into this one and you’d have everything there…no need to go elsewhere.
3. Making a trim on the nest itself won’t change the original sequence…and you really can’t see what you are doing.
Many more. So…why nest? What does it get you?
1. Hmmm…I can’t think of any reason why you’d want to nest. To make the main sequence look neater? Sorry, you might have to supply this answer, I personally don’t know. OH…you can apply a filter to the nest and it affects everything in it! That’s it. That’s all I got.
Never nest. There is no point. I work on projects where we have different sequences for every act (separated by commercial breaks) that we work on and edit…and then when we are done, we cut the sequences into a main sequence… the show build. In Avid, you can copy/paste or load into the source side. In premiere, it’s best to copy/paste. Then you have all of the clips at your disposal. Make changes all day long. Does it affect your smaller, original sequences? No…but why should it? Now you’ve built the show…you are nearing the final stage, so cut on this to make all your final changes. OR…copy and paste the acts back into another sequence and work on that.
NESTING IS EVIL. I think I said that. IMHO…avoid at all costs.
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Well…or don’t nest. Just copy/paste from one location to the other, and that way you have access to all the individual clips. Nesting really serves little to no useful purpose.
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Sorry man, I don’t know FCX at all. So I can offer no advice. Best to post this in the FCX forum.
https://forums.creativecow.net/fcpx
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[grinner hester] “Budget 5 days per episode.”
How long is the episode? How much footage do you have? Have the story producers gone through and made a REALLY TIGHT precut? On a 60 min show (43 of actual show)…we can get a ROUGH cut done in 5 days, if we have 5 editors on it, and a decent precut.
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The keyboard shortcuts CMD + and CMD – will zoom you in and out of the timeline.
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That new elevator makes the apartment building more accessible to new residents…who’ve never lived in an apartment before.
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Were you paid as a shooter? For your time? If you are paid to shoot the video, as a videographer…then the footage belongs to the client. You were hired to shoot images and provide them to the client. That’s how things typically work, unless you have a special agreement.
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[Cihan Kurt] ” The media files are on an external hard disk. Is there anything else you can offer besides that?”
Yes. How is the hard drive connected? What kind of hard drive? Meaning is it a single, small USB 3 drive? It might be too slow for media. Is it a higher end drive that’s faster and meant for video editing? Is it a single drive, or a RAID drive? 1080p60 does require higher end solutions, as it is a high data rate format
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