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Part 5 - FCP Basic Editing Techniques – Trim and Slip Trimming To trim frames or seconds off a clip press the roll tool in the tool bar to the right of the sequence or press the r key. Now double click the cut between the clips you want to trim. Two windows open up with a green bar across the top of them. Click below the windows on the +1 to step clips forward by one frame at a time, or +5 to step forward by five frames at a time, or -1 to step backwards one frame at a time, or -5 to step backwards by five frames at a time. This moves the cut point of both clips forward or back without moving the clips in the sequence. To adjust the outgoing clip edit point only leaving the incoming clips in point in-tact, simply click on the left hand screen. The green bar appears over the outgoing clip only. Now trim as above. Repeat the process for the incoming clip if you want to trim its edit point by clicking on it and trimming. Both the audio and video tracks selected will be trimmed. You can choose to trim just audio or just video track by unlinking the clips and selecting them. You can also use the roll tool to trim the cut point by dragging the trim point to where you would like it. Slipping The slip tool below the roll tool on the tool pallet or the s key act by clicking on the clip you want to change and while holding the click down moving the tool left or right to start the clip earlier or later, while not moving the clip’s position or duration in the timeline. Another way to use this tool is to select the clip you want to slip and press the + or - key and the amount of frames you want to slip the clip eg. +3 and the enter key (useful for putting video back into synch with its audio). Superimpose To superimpose a clip over another clip, select and park the play head over the clip you want too superimpose. Now in your browser select the clip you want to super over the top of the other clip and double click it. Mark an in point and then drag it over the sequence window
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and drop it over the bottom superimpose button. The clip now sits above the other clip on video track 2. Double click the top clip to put it into the browser window. Now select the motion tab at the top of the clip and click onto the opacity arrow. Now drag the opacity slider to 50% or whatever looks right for the clip you are working on. The opacity changes in the sequence windows viewer as a preview. Picture in Picture Place a clip above the clip you want to put another smaller picture, the same way as when you superimposed and double click the video 2 clip. In the Motion tab select the scale slider and scale it to the size you want smaller than normal. Now in the sequence window you will see a preview of a picture in picture. You can reposition the clip by changing the rotation and anchor points below the scale slider, or you can click on the third button in the middle at the top of the sequence monitor and select the second button down image and wire frame. A set of crossed lined appear. Click on the smaller clip and reposition it where you want it. This can be key framed. Key framing You can change parameters of clips at different points during the duration of the clip. Using the picture in picture example above, select the start of the clip and click on the key frame button in the nav column on both scale and the centre buttons. Now repeat this in the middle of the clip and change the clip size to larger and move the position of the clip and play it back. It is now animated. You can key frame most effects in FCP. Speed changes Select the clip or cut a part of your clip and put it to the end of your sequence to work on. Now double click the clip to put it into the browser. In the motion tab select the Time Remap arrow. In the speed window type the speed you want the clip to play at and click on the enter key. Eg. 100 is normal speed, -100 is backwards normal speed, 50 is half speed, 25 is ¼ speed etc. Once your clip has the desired speed, cut and paste insert it back into your sequence timeline at the place you want it.
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