Final Cut Pro HD | H•O•T Hands-On Training [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

1.

Open Chapter 06 Lesson, if it isn't open already. Load the sequence Seq Trimmed 30, which you created in Exercise 1, into the Timeline.

2.

Before you start trimming, make sure snapping is turned off (press N).

3.

Select the Ripple tool from the Tool paletteit's the one with a single rolleror press RR.

The Ripple tool allows you to change an In or an Out in ways you can't with the Arrow tool.

4.

For example, click the In of Shoot the edge and drag it to the left.

Notice the yellow tooltip that appears, showing you how much the shot is altered. Also, the dark brown box (wireframe) that represents the size of the clip grows larger as you move the In earlier.

When working with Timecode, negative numbers mean something is moving earlier, to the left, on the Timeline. Positive numbers mean something is moving later on the Timeline. In this case, the In has moved 18 frames earlier, making the clip 18 frames longer. It's longer because you didn't change the Out for that clip when you changed the In.

5.

Using the Ripple tool, drag the In to the right until the tooltip says you've moved the In 13 frames later (+13).

Notice how the brown wireframe gets shorter as you move the In later. This may look like you are adjusting both the In and the Out. You aren't. You are simply making the whole clip shorter or longer, by adjusting where the In starts.

Look up into the Canvas. As you move the Ripple tool, two small pictures appear.

The left picture shows the Out of the outgoing clip. The right picture shows the In of the incoming clip. As you move the mouse, the right picture changes, showing you the results of moving the In. This is a very helpful visual reminder of how you are changing the edit point and allows you to visualize the best place to cut between these two shots.

6.

Watch what happens when you move the Ripple tool +13 and let go of the mouse. See how the Shoot the Edge clip is automatically shortened, the gap is removed, and all the clips later in the sequence are moved up to fill the gap?

This is the big benefit of using the Ripple tool to trim frames; either adding them or removing them. In both cases, it does not leave a gap in the Timeline.

The displayed source timecode of your new In appears in the Canvas as 1:01:43:09.

There's another"tool" that can be used for trimming. In writing this chapter, I realized that I use this technique a lot, but never considered it a trimming toolmainly because it isn't a toolit's the Duration dialog.

7.

Select the Arrow tool, then Ctrl+click on the Shoot the edge clip. Notice that the third line down in the contextual menu displays the duration of the clip.

8.

You need to change this duration to 4:29. To do so, select Shoot the edge and choose Modify > Duration (or press Ctrl+D).

The Duration dialog appears with the current duration (5:29) of the clip preset.

9.

Change the Duration to 4:29 and click OK.

The Out of Shoot the edge is instantly shortened and all the downstream clips are automatically moved up to the left. I use this technique a lot to change the length of titles, graphics, still frames, and shots that don't have any significant movement in them, such as wide shots.

10.

Now you need to trim up the rest of the clips in this sequence. Using all the tools you've learned so far, make the following changes to these clips:

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11.

When you are done, your sequence should match Seq First Trim with a timecode of 1:00:42:07 when you press the End key to jump to the end of the sequence.

12.

This completes this exercise. Save your work, but leave everything open. You aren't done yet. Your commercial still runs over 12 seconds long.

NOTE | Ripple Delete

There is one other one-sided trimming function that you learned about in the last chapter. Although you don't need to cover it, again, in detail, I want to mention it here for the sake of completeness: the Ripple Delete.

Selecting a clip and pressing Delete, or choosing Sequence > Lift, deletes the clip and leaves a gap. Deleting a clip does not change the duration of the sequence. This is called a Lift edit.

Selecting a clip and pressing Shift+Delete, or choosing Sequence > Ripple Delete, deletes the clip, removes the gap, and pulls up all the clips to the right (downstream) of the gap. Ripple deleting always changes the duration of the sequence.

Which brings me around to why the Ripple tool and the Ripple Delete are both called "Ripple;" both of them create results that "ripple" through the rest of the sequence.

NOTE | When Rippling Doesn't Work

Rippling works great when you are trimming a video-only clip, an audio-only clip, or a clip with video and audio linked together.

Where it doesn't work is when you want to trim just the video, or just the audio, of a linked clip. In this case, one of two things will happen:

Chapter 7, "AudioThe Secret to a Great Picture," including a much better way to trim a linked clip.

However, to solve the "Clip Collision" message, you need to "lock" the tracks you don't want to change.

For instance, if you want to adjust a video edit point, and you know you won't force any of your audio tracks out of sync, you can lock your audio tracks. Locking a track tells Final Cut to ignore it when making changes to other tracks. In fact, locking a track is a good way to prevent yourself from making changes to a track, because as long as it is locked, you can't make any changes to that track either.

To lock a track, click the small padlock at the left side of the Timeline.

A locked track has diagonal lines running through all the clips on the track. An unlocked track, which is the default, has no diagonal lines.

To unlock a track, click the padlock icon again.