Re: sequence nesting? - MC mac

Avid does not have anything like sequence nesting.

In six years of editing in Avid, I've never really needed it. You could do what you describe. Alternatively there's the collapse tracks tool in Avid. You could collapse the source sequence and then edit it into the target sequence.

It doesn't have the parenting that FCP's nesting (usually) does.

The only reason I use nesting in FCP is for effects as we don't have the ability to use effects in the same way as Avid where you can span an effect across many shots.

My problem with FCP's nesting has been it's inconsistency. If you have In/Out points marked in the source sequence when nesting, then it seems that the nested sequence no-longer holds it's relationship to the original, but instead becomes a copy, but is only accessible by double-clicking the nest in the sequence you've nested it in.