Matching portions of nested sequences with source sequence

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RobTrujillo

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I haven't been able to find a solution to this problem, i'm sure others must have run into the same situation.

I routinely edit multicam video on one sequence, and then nest that sequence into another and reorder the video, move it around in time etc. For example, in the original multicam sequence for a live band, once the video is done,
i nest its sequence into a new sequence, chop the songs up, reorder them, and make it into a promo.

When i play the finished promo back in the new sequence, everything is great, but often there is an area where edits need to be fixed, and i'm spending a lot of time finding where that portion is in the original sequence. It would save a ton of time if there was a way to match where i am in the new sequence with where the edits are in the original.

Is there a way to make the "playback head" in one sequence match the one on another?

One way i found is to put markers on the original timeline, and those markers show up in the new sequence, but that helps me go in the other direction, in other words, i can't put a new marker on the new sequence and use it to locate the same point in the old sequence.

Thanks!

Rob T.
 
As it turns out, this does work, but only one level deep. I simplified the example, in a real project, i usually sync video tracks in one project, nest them into a second and edit as multicam, then nest that into a third to make the promo. Reveal nested sequence doesn't seem to work going from the third sequence to the second, but does work to go from the second the the first, which in my case won't do much good. There probably is a shorthand way to make the first sequence into an embedded sequence so there is only one layer of nests, but i need the individual tracks on that source sequence for color correcting later. Are there any other options?

Edit, it didn't work last night, i did check what i was doing a few times over, maybe it just needed to be restarted, which i did this morning. Now it does work from the third sequence to the first.
 
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