Playing 2 Video Tracks simultaneously in FCP?

Hello everybody. Have been asking around for the last couple of days but no-one seemed to be able to help me out. My question:
Is there a way of playing 2 video tracks from the timeline simultaneously and viewing what is happening in each of the 2 tracks?
I am preparing a video piece which will be played off 2 projectors with one soundtrack. In FCP I am currently working with an audio and 2 video tracks. I will later export the video tracks separately and run them off 2 computers. However I'd like to play the piece in the timeline and see what is going on in both tracks at the same time in order to syncronize the visuals in the 2 movices. Any ideas anyone?
Help is very much appreciated. I know you can do it.
Thanks
Matt

I can think of 2 ways to do this. Neither are elegant, but will work. Choose the one that works with your workflow.
1) Put one Track in V1 the other in V2 and downsize and lay them out side by side in the canvas. You'll have to paste attributes to each clip, but when you're done you can do a remove attributes and export V1 and V2 individually. This option lets you work on both timelines at the same time.
2) Make 2 timelines and then in a 3rd put them together and do like option 1. You'll be doing some bouncing back and forth but you won't have to paste attributes all the time. If the nesting works correctly, the 3rd timeline "should" automatically update with the changes from 1 and 2.
Aftereffects gives you the ability to work in multiple timelines at once (edit one but be viewing the output of another timeline), but it's for real-time edits.
Message was edited by: Jake Abramson

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