Best way to organize cut scenes

I am working on an open world game that will have cut scenes (using Timeline and Cinemachine). My main scene is a large terrain grouping with procedurally-generated NPCs, etc, etc.

Right now, my cut scenes are simply a number of GameObjects converted to Timeline directors. Is this good practice? It means, over time, absolutely everything about my game will be in a single Scene.

It's convenient, since my cut scenes take place in different areas of that same terrain. But the organizer in me does wonder if I'm doing something wrong. Thanks!

 

I don't think this is specifically related to cut scenes however i also started out with a single scene and ultimately had to split out into scenes because of the 4gb build limit in unity. There is also initial application load time to consider. I think unity 2020 removes this limit. See this thread for more details:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/bug...text=This is a limit of,limit of which is 4GB.

 

This is true and this is how i do my cutscenes. The challenge with this is if you need your timeline to be able to control objects outside of the prefab, e.g. a global directional light for a sunset. Obviously, references will not be preserved. Again, this can be solved but it is not straightforward.

 

Another example is the global cinemachinebrain reference which is needed for camera cuts etc on your timeline