Parent / step-child tracks?

daniel-t wrote on 8/18/2022, 7:17 PM

Possibly a stupid question. Is it possible to create a parent/child track relationship with tracks that aren’t directly nested? So, like a step-child?

For example, normally you would have:

1 - PARENT
1 - 2 - CHILD
1 - 3 - CHILD
1 - 4 - CHILD
5 - TRACK

But what if you wanted a structure like:

1 - PARENT
1 - 2 - CHILD
1 - 3 - CHILD
4 - TRACK
1 - 5 - CHILD

Where track #5 is layered behind #4, but connected to events controlled by track #1?

Currently I can only figure to do something like this by duplicating everything that happens on #1 on #5 (and if you’re trying to duplicate parent track motion, #5 seems to have to be a false child of another track just for the event dimensions to copy properly).

Am I missing something? If not… then probably just a silly idea!

Comments

jetdv wrote on 8/19/2022, 9:27 AM

No. Track 4 would also have to be a child to track 1 or track 5 will need to be above track 4.

In your arrangement, track 5 would have to be a child to track 4.