Nesting Sequences in Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro can be a complicated program to get to grips with when you first start out. There are many different features and functions that I need to get to grips with before I can truly start editing like a pro, however I am improving all the time. I have made a target that I am going to get into the edit suite whenever I can to finish off editing the coverage that we shot in our Practice Enrichment session. We wrote some simple dialogue and shot a simple scene consisting of a conversation between two people on what they would do if they won the lottery. We shot it from different angles, including a master shot, over shoulders and close ups. We then transferred this footage over to the edit suite and have been given the task of putting together an edit.

When putting my video and sound captured from Tascam when working on my edit, the first thing I tried to do was use a time consuming process, of
individually linking up every clip and the appropriate sound together each time I found the one that I wanted to add to the timeline. I have now discovered a much quicker and easier way to do it then this. This is to create a new sequence for every angle and sync the appropriate sound and video up within that sequence (Master Shot, Overshoulder1, etc.). This way once you have synced everything up it is easier to simply scan through your sequences, find the clip that you want to use, and pull it into the master sequence.

In conclusion,  Final Cut Pro is a program which allows many different methods of working. You have to figure out what works best for you though the experience of editing. I am confident that through my editing practice I will be able to find what works best for me.