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Sending a Clip to the Timeline

Once you've adjusted the mark-in and mark-out points of the media clip and added any markers, it's time to send the clip to the Timeline. In Chapter 5, I showed you how to send a Storyboard Sequence to the Timeline, but when you're using the Source Viewer to send the clips, you have several options open to you that involve using the Insert Source into Master button or drag and drop, or creating a three- or four-point edit.

Sending to an empty Timeline

Placing a clip on an empty Timeline or at the end of the current Sequence is relatively simple, and once you have trimmed your clip in the Source Viewer, you are ready to go.

To send a clip to an unoccupied part of the Timeline

Tip

• Dragging and dropping allows you to dynamically place the clip at any point on the Timeline, but the rules of Overwrite Style and Film Style will be obeyed.

Sending to an occupied Timeline

Sending to a Timeline that already contains clips is basically the same process as sending to an unoccupied Timeline; however, here the Overwrite Style and Film Style rules need to be observed more carefully.

As you will recall from the "Edit Styles" sidebar earlier in this chapter the basic difference between these two styles is that Film Style shuffles the already existing clips up to make room for any new clips you insert, while the Overwrite Style simply writes over the existing clips. Which one you use will depend on what exists on the Timeline.

Tip

• Remember to work only with grouped clips where possible.

To insert a clip in Overwrite Style

Do one of the following:

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Clicking this button places the clip at your chosen position; the clip on the right moves up to make room for the new clip (Figure 6.50 ).

Figure 6.50. Inserting a clip at the start of the Timeline.




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• Place the timeline cursor on a clip that is already on the Timeline and click the Insert Source into Master button .

  This action cuts the original clip at the cursor position and then places the Source Viewer clip there, thus overwriting the original clip and any other clips to the right for the duration of the newly inserted clip (Figure 6.51 ).

  Figure 6.51. Inserting a clip into the another.

  
  

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To insert a clip in Film Style