I am editing a series of racecar practice and race events--Five "events" Thursday test day (AM/PM): Friday qualifying (AM/PM); Saturday race. Output will be DVD and Blu-ray with menu to select each event as well as one button to allow playing all five events.
Experience will teach better ways to do this, but I am now curious if I can essentially treat different sequences within the same project as clips and load one sequence after another onto the timeline?
My current thought was to make one project with a sequence for each event (using "make a duplicate" of sequence in project bin). I do Thursday AM sequence, make a copy, load copy into timeline, then essentially delete that copy from timeline and build a sequence of Thursday PM.
I tested my knowledge by using this approach to make Thursday AM and Thursday PM sequences and sure enough I could load either sequence into timeline by selecting appropriate sequence copy. This is like making version 1 and version 2 of the same event, except in this case version 1 is Thursday AM and version 2 is Thursday PM.
This method allows me to export QT reference file of each sequence while keeping each sequence short enough that my timeline does not get too complex for me.
The next test was to have Thursday AM sequence on timeline and somehow add Thursday PM sequence at end of Thursday AM sequence to eventually build a "sequence" of all five events on the timeline. However, I could not drag sequence 2 onto the timeline after sequence 1 and could not load sequence 2 into source window nor did it work to copy sequence 2 into a seperate bin and load into timeline that way.
Now Douglas has an excellent tutorial I bought on how to take a long sequence loaded into Avid DVD and slice it up into seperate menu items as desired if I make one long sequence. However, I am now curious if there is a way to basically treat each sequence like a clip and add the different sequences onto timeline anywhere I want?
Apologies for long note but I am a bit weary after trying many different things.