How to break a long project in 3 smaller timelines and assembling them back

Hi,
I'm presently working on a big project (a 90 min long documentary). I took advantage of tips from other user to speed up FCPX but now I'm at a point where I fell in need of a radical switch to give breath to my mac (btw I just switched to a new iMac with 16gb of Ram)
I've been wondering about an advice which was gave me from Russ H on this forum: I'm presently at minute 60, he suggested me to create another timeline for the last 30 min.
I think I have to go further ahed, I need to break the exisiting timeline in two, so to have two 30min long TL. And then I have to create a third TL with the last 30 min.
Here we go with my questions: 1) to have new timelines I need to create/duplicate projects? Or I can just associate more timelines to the same one?
2) If not I think I have to duplicate my project three time and then cutting the 30'min segment which I don't need to be in that project...and then of course I have to start building my third edit in the third 30min TL
3) Here is the point which make me worried the most...At the end of my work how can I put everything back togheter? Is there any "merge TL" function? I should just export 3 masterfile and then assemble them? I should just put the 3 file on XDCAM disc as clip to be playied in a row?
Thank you in advance for your help,
Nico

As I recall, the suggestion to create separate projects was one of several to address increasingly sluggish performance as your project grew in length. The idea was that by opening and working on shorter timelines, you would place less of a processing burden on your machine.
Now that you have a newer, more powerful  iMac, it may not be necessary to break up that project.
If you still think it is desirable to break up the project, I would stay within the existing library and create a new project for the last part of the doc.  If you are still working on the first 60 minutes section and you want to work in smaller projects, create two more empty projects. Then select two sections of the original and paste them to the new projects' timelines. When you have finished all three sections, create a fourth project and paste copies of the three into it.
There is no merge timeline command, but copy paste is pretty bullet proof. Click in the timeline window to make it active. Hit Command-A to select all; Command -C to copy, Open the empty project and hit Command-V to copy. Just make sure that your playhead is at the last frame of the sequence before you paste any more sections into the "omnibus" timeline and it should go quite smoothly.
Russ

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