Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 424)

Chapter 5 Working With Projects, Clips, and Sequences 89
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To create master clips for a sequence pasted into a project:
1 Select the sequence in the Browser.
2 Choose Tools > Create Master Clips.
A bin is created called “Master Clips for Sequence Name”, named after the sequence.
Master clips are created for any independent clips in the sequence, and the
independent clips become affiliate clips of the new master clips. If master clips already
exist for all clips in the sequence, no bin or master clips are created.
Nesting a Sequence
In Final Cut Pro, you can treat sequences as clips and edit them into other sequences.
This is called nesting a sequence, because you put one sequence inside of another.
Nesting sequences is a common practice when you work on small, independent
sequences for a while and then you want to quickly attach them together in another,
master sequence. Nesting sequences does create some processing overhead, and can
make media management more complicated.
For more information, see “ Nesting Sequences ” on page 418.
Basic Sequence and Timeline Settings
Before you began logging and capturing, you most likely chose an Easy Setup that
established your basic sequence settings and Timeline display options. An Easy Setup is
a preset group of capture, device control, sequence, external playback, and output
settings for a particular video or audio format and hardware configuration. Each Easy
Setup represents a simple workflow that maintains that same video format throughout
capturing, editing, and output. If one of the available Easy Setups describes your
workflow, you should have no need to adjust your sequence and Timeline settings. For
more information, see Volume IV, Chapter 23, “Audio/Video Settings and Easy Setups.”
However, some people have an output format that doesn’t match their media files,
such as when capturing DV footage but outputting to Digital Betacam. In these cases,
there are several possible workflows. To avoid rendering during editing, your sequence
settings should match the settings of your media files. For example, if your media files
are DV, you can edit to a sequence with DV settings. When it is time to output, you can
do one of two things:
 Duplicate the sequence, make all the clips offline, then change the sequence settings
to Digital Betacam. (Your sequence represents all of your final edit decisions, but
your media files are not the right format. You must recapture all of them with Digital
Betacam settings.)
 Output your tape to DV, then go to a video facility to have your master DV tape
dubbed to Digital Betacam.