Unit 04 - Building and Organizing Continued
Review Midterms
3-point editing continued
Try setting an In and Out point in the Viewer with a duration of 5 seconds and then set an In and Out on the Timeline with a duration of 3 seconds. Place the playhead outside of the In and Out. Then drag the clip from the Viewer onto the Overwrite overlay in the Canvas. Note that the In on the Timeline overrides playhead and the duration in the Timeline overrides the Viewer.
Browser
Since you are often dealing with a large amount of data it can be helpful to use Edit > Find (Cmd + F) to find media you are looking for. It is also a good way to search for unused media or media that is in your project but not in the selected sequence. To search for unused media, simply leave the search text field empty, select Unused Media from the Find dialog box, and then click the Find All button.
Extend Edit - Classroom Activity
Track Gaps, Selected Tracks, and Locked Tracks
Track gaps can happen and you often need to decide whether you want to delete the gap or trim the tracks. There are several ways to remove a track gap.
You can simply select the gap and then click the delete button on your keyboard. You can also search for track gaps throughout your program by first selecting Mark > Next > Track Gap. If you have a track on V2 or an audio track with a duration that covers the gap, then you will not be able to delete the gap without first locking the track without the gap.
You can insert tracks by going to Sequence > Insert Tracks or Cnt + Clicking in the grey area above the video track. You can also simply drag a clip where you want the track to appear and a new track will be automatically created.
Storyboard Editing
This technique allows you to line up all the clips or images in your browser (Icon mode) and then drop them into your sequence with all the selected clips in order on the time line. The order from the Browser is left to right and top to bottom. Once you have the clips in order select them and drag over to the Canvas to select Overwrite.
Markers
You can add markers to a clip or a sequence. Markers can be used to mark audio cues or sync up two cameras. You can create a chapter marker for DVD Studio Pro or just use markers as sticky notes to leave information for you or another editor. Using FCP you can create frame accurate chapters.
I often use markers when I am making a montage and I have a sound track to work with. I play the music track and lay down a marker by clicking the "M" key on my keyboard.
Let's practice putting in some markers and then using keyboard shortcuts to move around them. Audio w/Snowboarding - Classroom exercise
Types of Markers
- Note marker: This is the default marker that is created when you add a marker to a clip or sequence. Clip markers move with the clip. You can only navigate the markers when you have the clip selected. Timeline markers are tied to a sequence.
- Chapter marker: translated into DVD chapter markers for DVD authoring programs. The text <CHAPTER> appears in the Edit Marker window. People can use them to navigate to your markers when watching the DVD
- Compression marker: These markers tell Compressor to flag this as the start of an I frame.
- Scoring marker: If outputting to SoundTrack so that SoundTrack can see a flag like "Theme starts here" or "Music out or dramatic sound effect
Editing Markers - can only be repositioned to the right
Subclips
Subclips show up in the Timeline and are created by setting In and Out pointss on a master clip and then choosing Modify > Make Subclip. Subclips are a good way to handle very long media clips.
Shortcuts
| Delete | Deletes selected clip and leaves a gap (lift) |
| Shift +Delete | Deletes selected clip and gap (ripple delete) |
| Ctrl + D | Displays duration of clip |
| F9 | Insert edits clip to Timeline |
| F10 | Overwrites edits clip to Timeline |
| N | Toggle snapping on and off |
| Q | Toggle between Viewer and Canvas |
| B | Razor Blade tool |
| S | Slip tool |
| SS | Slide tool |
| E | Extend Edit |
| Z | Selects Zoom tool |
| Option + z | To zoom out |
| Shift + z | To see the whole program (fit to window) |
| Command + | zoom in |
| Command - | zoom out |
| \ | plays around the play head |
| M | Creates marker at play head |
| MM | Open Edit Marker dialog |
| Shift +M | To move to the right - marker to marker |
| Option + M | To move to the left - marker to marker |
| Shift + ' | move marker to play head |
| Control + ' | Delete all markers |
| Command + ' | Delete the current marker you are on |