Craig, honestly, it was totally out of the blue. Imagine being on the edge of a building ready to jump because you think you have lost an entire year's worth of work, then you get an email that says, "Hi, I'm Noah from Apple, would you like me to help solve your problem?" Yeah baby.
Here is what I have done to rearrange my full length feature film, for what it is worth:
First, I am bummed because I liked the idea of working with compound clips, now I am scared to death of them because they cause immense bloating.
I have created 3 new projects for my feature film, each about 30 minutes in length:
Scenes 1-19
Scenes 20-45
Scenes 46-75
I did "select all and copy" from all the compound clips (as opposed to dragging the entire compound clip onto the timeline) and pasted the scenes in their entirety into the project timelines representing the scenes above.
I created 3 new events for each of the three projects and dragged the corresponding compound clips into them (deleting the compound clips from the original event with all the media in it).
So I now have 4 events for the film, one with all the media, 3 with the compound clips. Though I really don't need the compound clips anymore as I am now just going to work strictly in the project timelines.
When I import new media for the film I will load them in the new event that corresponds to the scenes the media is intended for. The 3 events with the compound clips will just serve as a backup for now but at some point I may trash them as they aren't really needed. I was told every time you edit them (blading, working with sound and color, etc) it bloats the hell out of the compound clip.
When I am all done and satisfied with the 3 sections of the film I intend to copy/paste all three project timelines into a new "final" project timeline, then burn the DVD. Then I will go drain a case of beer and stare at the moon and wonder why I put myself through all this.
Jack Niedenthal
Microwave Films of the Marshall Islands
http://www.microwavefilms.org
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