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Tripecac2
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April 2, 2025
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Nested Sequence - How to split at original clip boundaries?

  • April 2, 2025
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Let's say you have 2 tracks, each with multiple clips:

 

Track A: [---A1---]           [-----A2-----][--A3--]            [----A4----]

Track B:       [--B1--][-------B2-------]         [-----B3-----]

 

When you nest them you end up with two sequences, looking like this:

 

Seq A:   [----------------------------------------------------------------]

Seq B:         [------------------------------------------------]

 

You've lost the snap points at the beginning/end of the original clips, which makes it hard to apply temporal edits.

 

What's the easiest way to split your nested sequences so that you get your snap points back?  With splits, your sequences would then look like this:

 

Seq A:   [---------|---------|--------------|---------|---------|-----------]

Seq B:         [--------|------------------|-------|--------------]

 

This would let you get your snap points back.  Also, you can take it another step, and delete the gaps where there is no data:

 

Seq A:   [---------]           [-------------][--------]            [------------]

Seq B:         [-------][------------------]        [--------------]

 

Now we have our snap points, and can also manipulate (move, trim, delete, fade) the nested clips the same way we could manipulate the original clips.

 

Is there a way to do this automatically, or at least efficiently?

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    Tripecac2Author
    Inspiring
    April 9, 2025

    I suppose one way to do it would be to add a marker to the start and end of each clip in Track A and Track B (in the main seqeuence before nesting).  Then, after nesting, snap to the start/stop points and split there.

     

    Or, even easier: copy Track A's clips to Track X, and Track B's clips to Track Y.  Then, nest Tracks A and B.  Snap to the start and end points in Tracks X and Y, splitting Seq A and Seq B appropriately.  When done, delete Tracks X and Y.  This method has the advantage of letting you distinguish between gaps and clips; the marker-based method doesn't do that.

     

    Both methods are a pain, though, as the number of clips increases.

     

    I wish there were a way to do it automatically.

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