Arrange the Order of My Clips?

It’s a drag-and-drop thing: you can click on any clip in the timeline and drag it before or after any other clip (as seen above at the top), but sometimes this is a little tricky to do—especially if some of the clips you’re dragging-and-dropping are short. That’s why I recommend doing this dragging-and-dropping in Photoshop’s regular ol’ Layers panel (as seen above at the bottom). That’s right, the clips are all in the Layers panel, just like if you were making a multi-layered document. The order is the same here as it would be with regular images—whatever is on the bottom of the layer stack is the first clip in your movie, whatever is right above that is the next clip, and so on—and changing the order here is a lot easier. Of course, you can use whichever method you like—they both work fine—but I thought you should know about both, so you can use whichever one you’re most comfortable with. Plus, I got to introduce you to the idea that your video clips wind up stacked in the Layers panel, because this will come into play in a different way later in this chapter, so it’s a good thing to know now.