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Arranging and trimming clips: Lesson 2-2
As you play the sequence you just built you might notice a few things. The second and third clips are out of order, the edit between the two sliding door shots is awkward, the sequence is missing the graphic at the end, and at least one edit is a bit abrupt. You'll fix these items and do a few other cool things in the remaining mini-lessons.You have a choice at this point (depending on how confident you are that you followed Lesson 2-1 to a 'T'): either make a clean start to this lesson by opening Lesson 2-2.prproj or save your work and continue.
Starting fresh
If you choose start fresh, select File > Open Project, double-click Lesson 2-2.prproj in the Lesson 2 folder, and when asked if you want to save the changes click No.
Staying the course
If you want to continue working in your current project, then first save your work. Select File > Save As. You can name your project anything you want but for consistency's sake I suggest you name it Lesson 2 [your name]. Click Save.You'll start this lesson by rearranging two clips. The second and third video clips in the sequence are out of order. It's a simple matter to drag Clip 3 in front of Clip 2 but it takes a specialized keyboard shortcut. First we'll do it the wrong way.
NoteYou just did a type of insert edit called an extract and move (note the curved arrow icon highlighted in the next figure). Instead of doing an overlay edit that covers up what was on the video track at the point of the edit, holding down the Ctrl+Alt keys did several things. Holding down Ctrl filled the gap you created when you extracted the third clip and slid the rest of the clips over to make room. Holding down Alt "unlinked" the audio track from the Insert function (Insert normally moves clips on both the video and audio tracks) so the audio clip did not slide along the track along with the video clips above it.
| 4. | Play that section of the video. You'll see that the clip sequence makes more sense: the actor now stops, glances down, and then you see the tight shot of him unfolding the paper. |
| 5. | Drag the CTI through the fifth and sixth clips. Note that the sliding door opens twice. This is a jump cut and it's easy to fix. |
| 6. | Position the CTI on the edit point between the two clips (use the Page Up or Page Down keys). It doesn't have to be exactly on the edit point, merely close to it. |
| 7. | Click the Trim button ( ) in the lower right corner of the Program Monitor highlighted in the next figureor press Ctrl+T to open the Trim panel. |
| 8. | Hover your cursor over the left screen until it turns into a left-facing bracket (see next figure). |
| 9. | Drag that left-facing bracket to the left until the door is opened slightly past the main actor's face.The Out Shift blue timecode below that screen should be at about 00;00;00;10 (-10 frames -- hours;minutes;seconds;frames). You've trimmed the end of the left clip by one-third of a second (NTSC is 30 fps).[View full size image] |
| 10. | Hover the cursor over the right screen until it turns into a right-facing bracket and drag until the door widths matchabout +00;00;00;09 (9 frames) in the right screen's In Shift timecode display.You trimmed nearly a third of a second from the beginning of the right clip. |
| 11. | Click the Play Edit button ( ) in the Trim frame to check out your handiwork. |
| 12. | Close the Trim frame by clicking the 'X' in the upper right corner.[View full size image] |
| 13. | Select the Rate Stretch Tool ( ) from the Tools panel (keyboard shortcut X). |
| 14. | Click and drag the right edge of the last clip until it lines up with the end of the audio clip below it.That Rate Stretch move puts that final clip into slow motion. But the real purpose is to make it fit the length of the piece and then to turn that stretched clip into a freeze frame. |
| 15. | Switch back to the Selection tool by clicking its icon ( ) in the Tools panel or using the keyboard shortcut V. |
| 16. | Right-click anywhere on that stretched clip to open a lengthy, context menu and select Frame Hold. That opens the Frame Hold Options dialog box. |
| 17. | Check Hold On, select Out Point from the drop-down list and click OK.That creates a freeze frame that matches the final frame of the preceding clip (since both clips have the same final frame). |
| 18. | Feel free to save your work. If you already did a Save As, this time simply select File > Save. Or you can start fresh in Lesson 2-3 with a pre-built project. |
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