From the course: Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X

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Working snapshots vs. versioning duplicates

Working snapshots vs. versioning duplicates - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X

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Working snapshots vs. versioning duplicates

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- [Man] As you work, it's really common to duplicate your project, you know, versions as you go. I just want to show you the difference between duplicate and duplicate as a snapshot. As I've been working here, I've been mostly using command + d, duplicating project, and that's fine, but there's a second choice here that's important to know about, duplicating a project as a snapshot. And basically, what that does is it take any nests, any multicams, and it freezes them so changes don't ripple forward. I'm going to take these three clips here in the secondary story line. I'm going to right click and I'm going to say, create a new compound clip, option + g. It's essentially a nest. And we'll call this Snapshot example. If I continue to duplicate this timeline, Tahoe Dissolve, as I make changes, I'm great, but if I for whatever reason were to go in and do something to one of these clips, for example, I'll select the middle clip, and I'm going to add, I double click to open that up, I'll…

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