compound clip amalgamation in new timeline?

Double-click it should open it.

All the best,

Tom

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Thanks Gentlemen! The problem wasn't opening a compound clip per se, but combining multiple clips.

so the flow would be 1.project/timeline: make compound clip 2. copy and paste it from that timeline. 3. Close timeline, open new timeline, and paste it there. Right? I'm really quite slow at this!

Hmm.. I don't think so? But man I'm confused. Ha!

I think I'm ok now, but my problem was merging timelines I guess.

Like, I had one giant project with 3 hours of footage, and was duplicating it to cut up small bits of 30M.

Then, when I was done editing those bits, I would make a compound clip and close the project.

After that, I would create a new timeline (empty), and go searching for my compound clip in the even library, searching for a reference.

I didn't realize you just copy from a timeline (compound or not), close the timeline (project?), open a new one, and paste it in.

It seems like creating the compound in the event library first offers some cool options (like that global accessibility of compounds for other projects).. I'll have to try that for the next project!

it's a project that contains a number of ranges from key word collections..

So the original footage was 6 hours, then I cut out all interviewer voices / questions etc etc.

Now that it's crunch time, I've had to back track a little, and copy all range / marked clips into the timeline to start getting my hands a little dirtier.

One thing I'm really stuck with now (see my above post in the forum) is selecting a clip without the mouse.. if you have any tips on that, I'd most grateful.

Say I'm trying to 'control x' a small clip to move down the timeline (via the , " edit nav) .. I have to take my hand off the keyboard to select a clip.

I've been searching for a way to select the clips, but having no luck. I know about the heads and tails thing to edit the clip beyond the cursor, but no dice on mouse'less selections.

Tom,
you have just made my life SO much easier.

Thank you kind sir.
Thoreau