From the Tool palette, choose the Edit Selection tool (Figure 11.9); or press G. Then click an edit point in the Timeline.

Figure 11.9. Choose the Edit Selection tool from the Tool palette. This tool is designed to detect and select edits only.

The Trim Edit window opens.

From the Tool palette, choose the Selection tool; then click the edge of the clip in the Timeline. Double-click the edit if you want the Trim Edit window to open as well.

From the Tool palette, choose the Ripple tool or the Roll tool; then click the edge of the clip in the Timeline.

Press V to select the edit point nearest the playhead’s location.

From the Tool palette, choose the Edit Selection tool; then draw a marquee around the edit points of one or more Timeline tracks (Figure 11.10). You can select one edit per track; the selected edits don’t have to be aligned in time.

Figure 11.10. Draw a marquee around the edit points you want to select.

The Trim Edit window opens as you release the mouse button.

From the Tool palette, choose the Selection tool; then Command-click the edge of the clips in the Timeline. Double-click any selected edit if you want the Trim Edit window to open as well.

From the Tool palette, choose the Ripple tool or the Roll tool; then Command-click the edge of the clips in the Timeline.

Press Command-7.

The playhead jumps to the closest edit on the target track, and the Trim Edit window opens with a Roll edit selected.

In the Timeline, click an edit with the Edit Selection tool (Figure 11.13).

Figure 11.13. Click an edit point in the Timeline with the Edit Selection tool.

The edit is selected, and the Trim Edit window opens automatically (Figure 11.14).

Figure 11.14. The Trim Edit window opens automatically.

Click an edit with the Ripple or Roll tool, and the Trim Edit window opens with that edit type already selected.

Choose Sequence > Trim Edit.

In the Timeline, double-click an edit.

Move the Timeline or the Canvas playhead away from the edit.

Click anywhere in the Timeline away from an edit to deselect all edits in the Timeline.

Click the close button in the upper-left corner of the Trim Edit window (Figure 11.15).

Figure 11.15. Close the Trim Edit window by clicking the close button in the upper-left corner.

Select one or more edit points to trim, using any of the methods described earlier in this section. Then, if the Trim Edit window has not opened automatically, press Command-7 to open the Trim Edit window.

In the Trim Edit window, select the type of trim operation by clicking in the appropriate image area (the pointer changes to indicate whether you’ve selected Ripple Left, Roll, or Ripple Right):

1. Click the left image to trim the out-going clip with a Ripple Left edit.

2. Click the right image to trim the incoming clip with a Ripple Right edit (Figure 11.16).

   

   Figure 11.16. Click the image on the right in the Trim Edit window to select a Ripple Right edit.

3. Click the area between the images to select a Roll edit.

4. A green bar appears above the clip image, indicating the side of the edit that is selected for trimming.

Trim the edit using one of the following methods:

1. Use the Trim Forward and Trim Back buttons to move the edit point to the left or right by frame increments (Figure 11.17).

   

   Figure 11.17. Clicking this Trim Forward button moves the edit point to the right by single-frame increments.

2. Trim the edit point by typing + or – and a duration to add or subtract. You don’t need to click the field—just start typing and then press Enter. The type of trim performed depends on the edit selection you made in step 2.

3. Drag an edit point in the Scrubber bar.

4. Use the individual playback controls under either clip to play the clip; then mark a new Out point for the outgoing clip or a new In point for the incoming clip.

   The In Shift and Out Shift fields update to show the total cumulative shift in the edit point. These fields will track the shift, even if you perform the trim as several small adjustments. The Timeline display updates to reflect your trim.

Use the transport controls to review your edit.

1. Click the Play In to Out button to play from the start of the first clip to the end of the second clip (Figure 11.18).

   

   Figure 11.18. Review your trim by clicking the Play In to Out button to play from the beginning of the incoming clip to the end of the outgoing clip.

2. Click the Play Around Edit Loop button to loop playback of the edit point plus the specified pre-roll and post-roll.

3. Click the Stop button to stop playback and position the playhead on the edit point.

When you finish trimming, close the Trim Edit window.

In the Trim Edit window, select the type of trim operation by one of the methods described in the previous task.

A green bar appears above the clip image, indicating the side of the edit that is selected for trimming.

Click the Play Around Edit Loop button (or press the spacebar) to loop playback of the edit point (Figure 11.20).

Figure 11.20. Click the Play Around Edit Loop button to loop the playback of your edit point plus the specified pre-roll and post-roll.

As the preview loop plays, tap the I key to set a new In point on the incoming clip, or tap the O to set a new Out point on the outgoing clip (Figure 11.21).

Figure 11.21. As the playback loops in preview mode, you can use the I and O keys or the Mark buttons to adjust the edit point on the fly.

The corresponding In or Out edit point is adjusted accordingly. The looped playback hesitates briefly and then resumes.

In the Trim Edit window, enable dynamic trim mode by checking its box.

Position the mouse pointer in the image area of the clip you want to trim.

The pointer changes to the Ripple Left, Ripple Right, or Roll tool depending on the pointer’s location; the Play control on the affected clip is highlighted (Figure 11.22).

Figure 11.22. Dynamic Trim mode uses the mouse pointer’s location to determine which side of the edit you’re trimming and lets you use the JKL keys to control playback and mark edit points.

Use the JKL keyboard transport commands to play the clip you’re adjusting.

Click the K key to stop the playhead at the point you want to set as your new edit point.

The edit point adjusts to the playhead position automatically.

In the Trim Edit window, Shift-drag the active edit point on either Scrubber bar to slip that clip (Figure 11.23); or drag the edit point with the Slip tool.

Figure 11.23. Shift-dragging an active edit point in the Trim Edit window slips the selected clip. During the slip, the display changes to show the new In and Out points.

The Current Time display switches to show the adjusted timecode location for the edit point you are slipping.

Release the mouse button to complete the Slip edit.

The Current Time display reverts to displaying the timecode location at the clip’s current playhead position.

From the Tool palette, choose the Ripple tool (Figure 11.24).

Figure 11.24. Choose the Ripple tool from the Tool palette.

In the Timeline, select the edit by clicking near the edge of the clip.

The selected side of the edit will be highlighted.

Ripple the edit using one of the following methods:

1. Drag the edit to adjust the duration of the clip in the sequence.

2. Type + or – followed by the number of frames to add to or subtract from the current edit point (Figure 11.25); then press Enter.

Figure 11.25. After selecting the edit you want to ripple, type + or – followed by the number of frames to add to or subtract from the edit point.

Make a Ripple Left edit selection on the video track clip by clicking the left side of the edit point with the Ripple tool. If the clip is linked, you must Option-click to override linked selection.

On the audio track clip, use the Ripple tool again to make a Ripple Right edit selection on the other side of the audio track’s edit point. If you’re working on a linked clip, Command-click to select just the right side of the edit point with the Ripple tool (Figure 11.27).

Figure 11.27. Command-clicking the right side of this edit with the Ripple tool selects just the audio edit point of this linked clip to ripple right.

Type + or – followed by the number of frames to add to or subtract from the current edit points (Figure 11.28); then press Enter.

Figure 11.28. Use timecode entry to adjust the edit point. In this example, typing –60 trims 60 frames off the end of the V1 track of the left clip and 60 frames off the head of the A1 track of the right clip.

The video track edit point shifts back, while the audio track edit point shifts ahead by the same amount (Figure 11.29).

Figure 11.29. The completed asymmetric Ripple edit produces a split edit. Both clips were rippled by the same number of frames without affecting the sync of the downstream clips—note that the position of the clip markers is unchanged.

From the Tool palette, choose the Roll tool (Figure 11.30).

Figure 11.30. Choose the Roll tool from the Tool palette.

In the Timeline, select the edit point.

Roll the edit using one of the following methods:

1. Drag in either direction. As you drag, the Canvas display changes to two smaller screens that show the Out point of the outgoing clip on the left and the In point of the incoming clip on the right (Figure 11.31).

   

   Figure 11.31. During a Roll edit, the Canvas window converts to dual-screen mode, displaying the outgoing Out point on the left and the incoming In point on the right.

2. Type + or – followed by the number of frames to add to or subtract from the current edit point; then press Enter.

In the Tool palette, choose the Slip tool (Figure 11.33).

Figure 11.33. Choose the Slip tool from the Tool palette.

In the Timeline, select the clip and drag it left or right. As you drag:

1. An outline of the complete clip appears, indicating the amount of media available.

2. The Canvas display changes to two smaller screens that show the In point frame on the left and the Out point frame on the right (Figure 11.34).

   

   Figure 11.34. During the Slip edit, the Canvas window converts to dual-screen mode, displaying the In point frame on the left and the Out point frame on the right.

Release the mouse button when you have positioned the clip at its new location.

Select the clip in the Timeline.

In the Tool palette, choose the Slip tool.

Type + or – and the number of frames to slip; then press Enter.

In the Tool palette, choose the Slide tool.

In the Timeline, select the entire clip (Figure 11.35) and drag it left or right. As you drag:

1. An outline of the complete clip appears, indicating the amount of media available (Figure 11.36).

   

   Figure 11.35. Select the clip with the Slide tool.

   

   Figure 11.36. During the Slide edit, an outline of the complete clip appears in the Timeline, indicating the amount of media available outside the clip’s edit points.

2. The Canvas display changes to two smaller screens, which show the Out point frame of the clip to the left of the sliding clip and the In point frame of the clip to the right of the sliding clip.

Release the mouse button when you have positioned the clip at its new location (Figure 11.37).

Figure 11.37. The clip in its new sequence location.

Select the clip in the Timeline.

In the Tool palette, choose the Slide tool.

Type + or – and the number of frames to slide; then press Enter.

In the Timeline, select the clip you want to move.

Drag the clip from its current sequence location to the new location (Figure 11.38).

Figure 11.38. Drag the Timeline clip from its current sequence location to the edit point at the new location.

Align the head of the selected clip with the head of the clip in the Timeline at the insert location (Figure 11.39); then press Option without releasing the mouse button.

Figure 11.39. Use snapping to help you line up the head of the clip you are moving with the edit point where you want to insert the clip.

The pointer becomes a curved arrow.

Drop the selected clip at the insertion point you selected (Figure 11.40).

Figure 11.40. When you press Option as you drop the clip into the Timeline, the pointer changes to a curved arrow. Drop the clip at the insertion point.

The inserted clip and the sequence clip swap positions; no sequence clip durations are altered (Figure 11.41), but the order in which they appear has changed.

Figure 11.41. The inserted clip pushes the rest of the sequence clips down without altering any sequence durations.

Check the Snapping control to make sure snapping is on. (An Extend edit is a little easier to perform with snapping turned on.)

From the Tool palette, choose the Selection tool or the Edit Selection tool.

In the Timeline, click the edit point of the clip you want to extend (Figure 11.42).

Figure 11.42. Use the Selection (or the Edit Selection) tool to select the edit point of the clip you want to extend.

Move the playhead to the position that the edit will extend to (Figure 11.43); then press the E key.

Figure 11.43. Position the playhead to mark the new edit point for the edit; then press E.

The clip with the selected edit extends to the playhead position. An Extend edit will overwrite any gaps or clips it encounters, up to the position of the playhead (Figure 11.44).

Figure 11.44. The clip on the left lengthens, extending to the playhead position, overwriting any gaps or clips.

If there is not enough media to reach your selected playhead position, an “insufficient content for edit” error message appears, and the edit is canceled.

In the Tool palette, choose the Selection tool (Figure 11.47).

Figure 11.47. Choose the Selection tool from the Tool palette. The Selection arrow changes to a Resize pointer when you position it near an edit point.

In the Timeline, select an edit point and drag it (Figure 11.48).

Figure 11.48. Dragging the edit point of the selected clip in the Timeline resizes the clip.

You can drag the edit point to create a gap (by making the duration of the clip shorter; Figure 11.49) or cover an existing gap (by making the duration of the clip longer).

Figure 11.49. The clip, resized to a shorter duration, leaves a gap in its Timeline track.

Set your target track to the one that contains the clip you want to divide (Figure 11.50).

Figure 11.50. Target the track that contains the clip before you select its division point.

In the Timeline, position the playhead at the point where you want to divide the clip (Figure 11.51); then press Control-V to add an edit point.

Figure 11.51. Position the playhead at the point where you want to divide the clip.

The added edit point will create an additional clip that starts at the playhead position (Figure 11.52).

Figure 11.52. The clip divides at the playhead position. The added edit point creates an additional clip that starts at the playhead position.

Or do this:

Press B to select the Razor Blade tool; then click at the point where you want to divide the clip.

From the Tool palette, choose the Ripple tool.

In the Timeline, double-click the clip to open it in the Viewer.

In the Viewer’s Scrubber bar, drag either the In or the Out point to ripple the clip (Figure 11.54).

Figure 11.54. Dragging the Out point with the Ripple tool. The edit point will be rippled to the left.

From the Tool palette, choose the Roll tool.

In the Timeline, double-click the clip to open it in the Viewer.

In the Viewer’s Scrubber bar, drag either the In or the Out point to roll the edit.

If you run out of media to accommodate the shift in your edit point, an overlay appears on the image in the Viewer warning you of a “Media limit” error on the track that’s run out of frames.

From the Tool palette, choose the Slip tool.

In the Timeline, double-click the clip to open it in the Viewer.

In the Viewer’s Scrubber bar, drag either the In or the Out point to slip the clip.

As you slip, the Viewer displays the first frame of the clip; the Canvas displays the last frame of the clip (Figure 11.55).

Figure 11.55. As you slip the edit, the Viewer displays the first frame of the clip, and the Canvas displays the last frame.

In the Tool palette, choose the Selection tool.

In the Timeline, double-click the clip to open it in the Viewer.

In the Viewer’s Scrubber bar, drag either the In or the Out point to resize the clip (Figure 11.56).

Figure 11.56. Dragging the edit point in the Viewer’s Scrubber bar resizes the selected clip.

You can drag the edit point to create a gap (by decreasing the duration of the clip) or cover an existing gap (by increasing the duration of the clip).