Thanks Reel Inspiration and la_diamond for your fix. It worked brilliantly for me. Added my own flavour: I actually did it in two passes: 1) After extending the last good clip to the end of my sequence, I highlighted both video tracks and jumped through the whole sequence cut by cut (with down-arrow), alternately hitting "Add Cut" (usually cmd+K but I changed this to a single key that was available). down-cut-down-cut... That didn't take more than a minute to get through two and a half hours. 2) Next, I did the same thing again, this time only with the new track highlighted, using the number keys to choose the camera angle for each clip according to the old MC track (if you zoom right in you can easily read the clip title with the MC number in brackets). Again, took me maybe 20 minutes to get through the whole timeline. In the end I flattened the whole sequence before proceding further (felt like reaching land after a shipwreck). While this is still a major pain in the backside, I am so relieved to get out of the mud so quickly. So for everyone else who just arrived here and whose heart is sinking at this moment, it might not be all that bad.
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