145 6 Select the Slide tool (
; keyboard shortcut U), and position it over the
middle clip.
7 Drag the second clip left or right.
Take a look at the Program Monitor as you perform the slide edit. The two top
images are the In point and Out point of Clip B. They do not change. The two
larger images are the Out point and In point of the adjacent clips—Clip A and
Clip C, respectively. These edit points change as you slide the selected clip over
those adjacent clips.
Clip B In point (unchanged)
Clip A Out point
Clip C In point
Clip B Out point (unchanged)
The Slide tool moves a clip over two adjacent clips.
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Note: This is just to
demonstrate the edit.
You don’t need to find
a specific edit point.
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146 LESSON 8
Applying Specialized Editing Tools
8 Select the Slip tool (
; keyboard shortcut Y), and drag Clip B left and right.
Take a look at the Program Monitor as you perform the slip edit. The two top
images are the Out point and In point of Clips A and C, respectively. They do
not change. The two larger images are the In point and Out point of Clip B.
These edit points change as you slip Clip B
under Clips A and C.
Clip A Out point (unchanged)
Clip B In point
Clip B Out point
Clip C In point (unchanged)
The Slip tool moves a clip under two adjacent clips.
Using the Program Monitor’s Lift and Extract buttons Next, you’ll do a lift edit and then an extract edit:
1 Click the History tab, and choose New >
Open to undo all the rolling, slide, and slip
edits you just made.
2 Move the Timeline current-time indicator to
about midway on the first clip.
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Note: Try both the
Slide and Slip tools
on Clips A and C. Both
editing tools work on
the first or last clips in
a sequence.
