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Using the Compare With Current Timeline command lets you see the differences between
two differently edited versions of the same timeline, and merge a scene’s worth of
changes that a collaborator has made (at right) back to the original timeline
For more information on comparing timelines, see Chapter 26, “Creating and Working
withTimelines.”
Editors and Assistant Editors Working Together
Collaborators can edit metadata, create new bins, and reorganize clips within unlocked bins
only. This means that your project should be organized so that an editor can lock the contents
of the bins they need to work with at a given point in time, while the assistants can work on
additional timelines and media within other bins in that project.
However, in addition to being able to copy timelines from a locked bin to a bin that you control,
you can also copy clips from one timeline to another. In this way, if you absolutely need to make
changes to source clips while the original source clips are locked, you can make your changes
to copies of these clips.
Editors and Compositing Artists Working Together
Editors and compositing artists can work together closely, since compositing artists can create
compositions for one or more clips in a timeline while it’s being edited, even though that
timeline and the bin it’s in are locked to other editors.
Here’s an example of an editor working on a commercial spot with a lot of greenscreen material
working together with one or more compositing artists.
 First, the editor cuts together each foreground clip with actors performing as a rough
cut, and once that rough cut is assembled, they edit in the background clips that
accompany each greenscreen clips to create a series of stack of clips.
 Second, the editor selects each stack of clips, one by one, and uses the New Fusion
Clip command to create Fusion clips that the compositing artists can work on.
Bymaking each of these clips into Fusion clips, the editor is making it easy for the
compositing artists to have access to all the clips necessary for each composition from
within the Fusion page, collaboratively.
 At this point, the editor uses collaborative chat to notify the compositing artists that
there are composites ready for them to work on, and the editor can then turn their
attention back to refining the edit.
 Upon being notified that they can begin work, one or more compositing artists start
working through the Fusion clip compositions while the editor is working, to create
each multi-layered composite that’s necessary. As each compositing artist finishes
a clip and moves to a new clip to begin work, the editor sees a notification badge at
the upper right corner of each clip in the Timeline that’s been composited, as well as
notification badges in the Bin List of the Media Pool, and at the upper right corner of the
Timeline viewer. Clicking any of these badges will refresh one or more of these clips, so
the editor can see the changes.
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