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Snapshots: Better than duplicates

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Snapshots: Better than duplicates

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- [Jeff] Welcome to Final Cut Pro X Weekly. I'm Jeff. There's no Nick this week. We're going to talk about some Snapshots. And basically the concept is Snapshots are better than duplicates in a lot of uses and I want you to see how the work and when to use them. So a Snapshot is a special kind of duplicate and you use it every time that you go to do output or when you want to freeze the way a compound clip is or a multi-cam clip. Let's take a look. It's really common for me as an editor to duplicate my sequence frequently. In fact, I sit back and generally right click and duplicate the project at Command + D twice a day, in the morning when I start, in the afternoon. I make lots and lots of duplicates. There's a problem with these duplicates and I want to show it to you. But first let's do a little bit of working on this timeline. I'm going to go ahead and take these last three clips and we're going to just change their role. I'm not really changing their role, because I care about…

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