What's your workflow for editing short/feature films?

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FilmBoy77

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i'm about to go into post production on my first feature. i plan on editing each scene (kept in bins) and then put them all together on a separate timeline once finished.

is this pretty much a reasonable workflow that makes the most since for a 90 min feature?

what are your suggestions or how do you do it?
 
That's a good way to go. You can then make a master sequence by dragging all your sequences from your bin into a new timeline. Any changes you make to the individual sequences will then update in the master. This also makes it easy to rearrange scenes.
 
oh making changes in the individual sequences updates the master sequence? wow, i didn't know that. makes sense though.
 
Batutta, are you talking about NESTING? I'd avoid that...problematic. Never consistent. Once you cut the smaller sequences into the master, just edit the master.
 
Sequences not updating. And this really happens consistently when you have them bumper to bumper, and you change something that adds or takes away time in a nested sequence that has nests AFTER it...it won't expand or contract.

Nesting is really only good if you want to add an effect to the entire range of clips. I'd never rely on it to update changes. That is messy editing.
 
Ive also have had problems with nesting not updating with FCP 5. Since upgrading to 6 it seems more stable. Haven't run into it...yet

Shawn
 
I'm not talking about nesting, just dragging the sequence icon from the browser into the timeline (although from a certain standpoint it looks the same as nesting). I work this way when I'm doing rough cuts. Sometimes it's a neccessity as I'm cutting while shooting and there are scenes missing. Eventually, when I got the flow of things right, I'll start building a complete timeline by copying and pasting cuts into 20 minute chunks. I've only had an issue with sequences not expanding or contracting when the entire sequence clip isn't in the timeline. If your sequence has an in and out, when you drag it into a timeline it only cuts in the selected parts, thus, when you go to change something, it retains that out point instead of expanding. Just clear your in an out points before pulling the sequence into the timeline so it pastes in the entire clip.
 
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Batutta said:
I'm not talking about nesting, just dragging the sequence icon from the browser into the timeline (although from a certain standpoint it looks the same as nesting). I work this way when I'm doing rough cuts. Sometimes it's a neccessity as I'm cutting while shooting and there are scenes missing. Eventually, when I got the flow of things right, I'll start building a complete timeline by copying and pasting cuts into 20 minute chunks. I've only had an issue with sequences not expanding or contracting when the entire sequence clip isn't in the timeline. If your sequence has an in and out, when you drag it into a timeline it only cuts in the selected parts, thus, when you go to change something, it retains that out point instead of expanding. Just clear your in an out points before pulling the sequence into the timeline so it pastes in the entire clip.
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That's called nesting. :)

-Noah
 
NoahK said:
That's called nesting. :)

-Noah
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Technically, when you select a bunch of clips in a timeline spread over multiple tracks, and select nest item(s), condensing it down to one track, that's nesting. Pulling the original sequence icon from the bin into a new timeline is different, although from Final Cut's point of view, it looks exactly like nesting. But it's not nesting, because nothing has been nested by the editor.
 
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