Collapsing Video Tracks.

I did a search on this forum and didn't find the answer so I'll post new. I have developed a .psd file in Photoshop Express that had 11 layers (what I wanted). I imported the .psd file into FCE and each layer was assigned a video track (also very good as I animated different elements using keyframes). Now, I want to use the video in another sequence but I don't want to bring all 11 video tracks over to the new sequence. So I want to collapse the layers to a single video track, knowing full well that I reduce my ability to effectively edit said video. Then I want to use that track in my other sequence. I'm sure this ones easy, but I can't see it. Thanks for your help.
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

OK, I answered my own question. Nesting sequences... I cut and pasted all the layers into another sequence, renamed the new sequence and then from the Browser dragged it into yet another sequence and it came over as a single video track. I'm able to render it, trim it and cut it all up like a single track. I was just confused on how to move the sequences around (T. Meehan's book, 50 Fast FCE Techniques) was very helpful.

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Nesting sequences | Learn Premiere Pro CS6 | Adobe TV
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How can you collapse several video tracks into one track?

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Select the tracks and type Option - C, or go to the menu Sequence > Nest Item(s).
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If there are performance issues, they're negligible. The real thing here is sloppiness. Sometimes in the heat of battle one creates extra tracks to park stuff on, sometimes they get left there for no good reason. I always park my timeline on the other monitor, with the browser so that I can expand it vertically and see all the tracks because a lot of my work has a lot of video and audio tracks. Every now and again I'll collapse as much as I can.

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Hi,
Please check the following article: http://technet.oracle.com:89/ubb/Forum70/HTML/000965.html
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Just reporting some bugs/discoveries I made in FCP 5.0.3, when using storage which is almost infinetesimally fast. I know FCP supports a maximum of 99 video tracks, but I wonder how many have actually been tested (realistically): Here's some problems I have when doing lots and lots of video tracks:
Qty. Description
Up to 10 Fine - no problem.
12 Program intermittently crashes with no error, when
sitting idle.
14 The scroll bar on the right side of the video
portion of the timeline stops drawing properly,
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16 Crashing is back - scroll bar still not operating
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20 Crashing stops, but scroll bar still not drawing
correctly.
24 Same as above.
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I rant for lots of reasons...as does Jim.
I rant when someone with NO CLUE as to the post production process tries to tackle a complex process thinking that FCP is easy. Especially when said people, who previously edited home movies or short films on FCP, suddenly think they can edit broadcast television.
I rant when people think a simple plugin will edit for them, or suddenly make everything ready for broadcast.
I rant when someone assumes that FCP can do something it cannot, and is mad for FCP not being able to do it.
I rant when people don't do their research, buy gear, shoot hours and hours, only to find that it won't work on ANY system...and they blame the system for not working with the new gear, even though the gear came out AFTER the system.
But mainly I rant for the first reason. Too many people think that editing is easy and that they can just buy a G5, monitor, camera and a few books and be ready for Prime Time. No no no. Even Robert Rodriguez, the ultimate film rebel, took a long time to learn what he learned. I have spent a large part of my career learning post production...broadcast standards, specs, color correction, show timing, audio post...not to mention the art of storytelling. And it really gets on my nerves when someone thinks that they can take an Mac Mini and camcorder and edit a broadcast show...and get angry at Apple for things not working properly.
Get the proper tools. Get the proper training. Cut your chops by editing a lot and a lot and a lot. Research everything before you buy and jump into a project with a huge deadline. I am venturing into HD...I start editing next week...I have been researching the topic since July and am STILL testing gear and my workflow.
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How do I get the audio track to stick with the video track?

Whenever I move or cut the video track I want it's audio track to move or cut with it, how do I get them to stay together so I don't have to do double work?
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Sounds like Linked Selection is switched off. Check the button in the upper right of the timeline window. Shift-L will toggle it off and on.

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[The next 2 paragraphs are a repeat of my previous post. I'm including them for context.]
I'm working in DVDSP 4 and have encountered a few "anomalies". I wanted to see if I am doing something wrong or if I have found a bug. I will break this into two posts because they are two different issues.
Basically I am creating a DVD that will back a live presentation. The video track is timed to approximate the length of the presentation. But I want to have several "escape hatches". If a segment does run a little long then the presentation will dump into another track that has a still image and a background music track. I don't want to pause the play, because I want full-field video and audio. I also want to advance through the presentation by simply clicking the NEXT CHAPTER button.
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Houghts & Aldershot -- thanks for your reply. To add a little clarity the project goes like this:
The MAIN track is 20 minutes long. If the speaker finishes a section early, he can "NEXT" to the next section (next marker). If he runs long, when he gets to the next marker the dvd will dump him into another track (Lets call it WAITING TRACK) that will "hold" (with some music) until he hits NEXT again. So far this all works.
The problem is getting OUT of the WAITING TRACK loop and back to the MAIN track. Putting a second marker near the end of this track (as Aldershot suggests) will jump me to the end of WAITING but how do I get back to the marker in MAIN? Can I just set an end Jump to go back to the marker I want in MAIN? Will the presenter then have to hit skip forward twice? (I guess I'll have to try and see.)
I guess I could target this marker in main with the MENU button, but then the presenter would have TWO buttons to worry about. I'm trying to make this as zipless as possible.
By the way, if I don't loop the WAITING track back to the first marker, this scenario works. The problem only arises if I loop back to Chapter1. Making the end of the track an infinite hold looked to be a promising option. But it seems to put the player into pause. The user must hit PLAY and then NEXT. Two buttons again.
I'll keep digging and follow up as I learn more.

Audio and Video tracks don't go up/down together EVEN when linked selection is checked!

I'm sure this is something really simple but I just can't figure it out. And it must be a button or a option that I've checked because it didn't use to do that a few days ago.
Basically, I have a clip on the timeline which has a video and an audio track. I want to move the video clip up to the next video track but I want the audio to move down to the next audio track too. Right now it's not doing that. Only the video file moves up to the next track and the audio clip remains in the same track. How do I fix that so that however many tracks I move the video up by the audio goes down by that same number of tracks?

Hi Shooternz,
shooternz wrote:
Not sure how other NLES manage it but I think it would be a pain if audio automatically followed video in this respect. eg Blocked layers b'cos something is already there.
FCP &, and earlier behaved that way. I prefer the way Premiere Pro does it. You often do not need to move the audio to a different track when you move video to another track. I want to control the placement of audio and video separately now.
Thanks,
Kevin

Brightness differences between Menus and Video Tracks

I am trying to learn DVD Studio Pro 3.
My project has a "roster" menu that leads to several submenus. I want an animated transition from the "roster" menu, to each of the submenus.
I built each of the animations in After Effects. They all start with the same first frame -- the "roster" menu. Each animation has a different ending frame -- one of the submenus. I rendered the animations as QuickTime movies in After Effects.
Also in After Effects, I used the "Save frame as" menu to make a flat .PSD file of the first frame (for the "roster" menu,) and each end frame (for the submenus.)
I imported all the files into DVD Studio Pro. I laid out the menu structure, drew buttons, and connected them all the way I wanted. Each button on the "roster" menu points to the start of a track, and the End Jump of that track points to a submenu.
The logic of all this works the way I expect, both in DVD Studio Pro's simulator, and on a burnt DVD. However, there is a noticeable brightness difference between the video tracks and the menus.
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Monitors for each video track?

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Scrubbing to determine precise edit points is useful, but seeing the dialog audio waveform would be much better.
You can see the audio waveform in additional audio-only tracks, but for cutting to dialog you really need to see the primary audio waveform that's in the video track.
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msimpson,
No. The waveforms are only visible in the two separate audio tracks.
A work around would be to use Advanced>Extract Audio command.
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