Classroom in a book

Exploring timesaving editing tools
You’ll use the Rolling Edit, Slide, and Slip tools in a variety of situations, includ-
ing when you want to preserve the overall length of your program while trimming 
and editing scenes within it. They come in handy for precisely timed projects such 
as 30-second advertisements. You saw the Rolling Edit tool in action in the Trim 
Monitor in Lesson 5.
You worked with extract edits and lift edits by using the drag-and-drop method. 
In this lesson, you’ll use the Program Monitor’s Extract and Lift buttons to remove 
selected groups of frames—even when they’re spread out over one or more clips.
In some cases, it can be easier to make individual edits and forego these specialized 
tools, but it’s good for any video editor to know how to use all of them. Here’s a 
quick look at what they do and how they differ from one another:
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Ripple edit
: A ripple edit trims a clip and shifts subsequent clips in the track by 
the amount you trim. You used this tool in Lesson 5.
A ripple edit changes the overall length of the project.

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Rolling edit
: A rolling edit rolls the cut point between two adjacent clips, 
shortening one and lengthening the other by the same amount of frames, 
thereby retaining the overall length of the project.
A rolling edit retains the overall length of the project.
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Slide edit
: A slide edit slides the entire clip over two adjacent clips, shortening 
and lengthening those adjacent clips without changing the selected clip’s length 
or In and Out points.
A slide edit changes the In and Out points of adjacent clips while retaining 
the original clip’s edit points.
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Slip edit
: A slip edit slips a clip under two adjacent clips. This changes the clip’s 
starting and ending frames without changing its duration or its position on the 
timeline and without affecting adjacent clips.
A slip edit changes the In and Out points of the selected clip while 
retaining the adjacent clip’s edit points.