Use Case – Working with Sequences
From the Viewer to the Timeline with the sequences imported
in a Master Project.
A convenient methodology for working on a Master project along with
1 or more previously saved Sub projects or sequences use
case is described here. A sequence is an edited assembly of audio
and video clips generally consisting of a series of videos that
relate to the same activity. This use case explains how to work this
way and some things you need to be aware of.
- First load your Master project, which you worked on and
saved earlier as an .xml file, using an Insertion strategy
of Replace current project. Generally this Master project
consists of media with any of the attributes of clips, autos,
possibly keyframes, and effects. You will see your project on the
main timeline and the Media files that are part of this Master
project will be displayed in the Resources window in the Media
folder.
- Previously you may have also saved a Sub project, which
will now be referred to as a Sequence, as an .xml file that
may contain any of the same such things: media, clips, autos,
keyframes, effects. Second you will want to load the Sequence using
an Insertion strategy of Create new resources only. When
you do the load, this Sequence will show as a file in the Resources
window in the Clips folder. The actual media will show in the Media
folder.
- Now Drag and Drop the Sub project from the Clips folder to
the Viewer.
- Set In and Out Pointers in the Viewer to the region of
interest in the Sub project and in the Timeline of the Main window
of your Master project, move the cursor position to where you would
like to insert this In/Out section.
- Click on the Splice (v) button in the Viewer to
insert this section into the Master project timeline. All of the
attributes of the selected Sub project section will now be inserted
in the main timeline to include the autos, keyframes, effects, and
labels.
- Alternatively, if you click on the Overwrite (b)
button in the Viewer, you can see the Sub project In/Out section in
the timeline, but without its autos, effects, keyframes, etc. If in
the timeline there were some autos, effects, and keyframes in that
Master project, they will be in effect for the new section.
You can see the advantages of using Splice versus Overwrite to
either insert (splice) with all of the attributes of a specific
section of your Sequence or to overwrite without the attributes to
allow for the smooth operation on the timeline by retaining the
timeline’s attributes at that point.
NOTE: for correct operation of this use case, you should have the
same (or more) number of tracks in the Master project as you do in
the Sequence. To avoid having to know how many tracks you need, you
can use the Nest feature as described in the Nesting section
(6.6).
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