Apple MA434Z/A User Manual - Page 133

How Sent Clips Are Arranged in Shake Regardless of how you move Final Cut Pro clips into Shake, how they're assembled in the newly created Shake script depends on whether they were sequentially arranged within a single video track, or vertically superimposed using several video tracks. Imported Final Cut Pro clips are arranged within the node tree using Select and MultiLayer nodes: • Clips edited sequentially on the same video track in Final Cut Pro are connected to a single Select node when exported to Shake. The Select node switches between clips at their In and Out points, reflecting the editing decisions made on the track in Final Cut Pro. If the clips were originally superimposed across multiple video tracks, each video track that contains a clip results in a corresponding Select node being created in the Shake script. All clips that were edited into the same video track are connected to the same Select node. Note: The actual edit points for each FileIn node attached to the Select node are stored within the branch parameter. The data stored within this parameter is not intended to be editable; any attempt to do so will disrupt the edit points of the affected nodes. • All the Select nodes are connected to a single MultiLayer node, which determines which clips are in the foreground of the composition, and which are in the background. Their arrangement reflects the arrangement of video tracks in the original Final Cut Pro sequence. For example, if you used the Send to Shake command on the following three sequentially edited clips: Sequentially edited clips in Final Cut Pro The result would be the following Shake script, with one Select node and one MultiLayer node. Resulting arrangement in Shake Chapter 3 Adding Media, Retiming, and Remastering 133