I have incan items in Nutcracker and it works fine. I even have my staic elements like the nativity that just stays on all the time and a couple other static elements. You just have to think about what you want to accomplish. I have 16 3 color mini trees. I started by making each color a single strand so I could make a little tree and have it show up on the preview, but that gave me 48 models and I could not do a chase. Then I tried making 16 3channel RGB trees so that I could cut the modles down from 48 to 16, but I still could not do a chase. Then I tried just putting 3 16 node one color strings and got to 3 models, but can only show a dot in the preview. Now I am going to try defining them as one 3 channel RGB string of 16 nodes. Still cannot see a tree in the preview, but I will only have one model instead of the multiples I had before. Give it a go.