Edit to the Maxx - The Art of the Digital Cut - Part 11

Skip to Next Edit-point in Selected Tracks

- Select only the track you want to move within
- Click the Composer's Go To Next Edit button

Skip to Previous Edit-point in Selected Tracks

- Select only the track you want to move within
- Click the Composer's Go To Previous Edit button

Jog/Shuttle

To Jog (step frame-by-frame) to a specific frame, use the left- and right-arrow keys. Alternately, click the Step Forward button and the Step Backward button under either the Source or Composer monitor.

- Engage the caps lock and you will be able to hear (scrub) audio.

Avid's keyboard-driven j k l Shuttle control is a fast way to look at the Timeline:

j        Reverse          Edit by watching/ listening at rates from 8fps to 240fps

k       Stop

l        Forward         Edit by watching/ listening at rates from 8fps to 240fps

Source Monitor Functions

You can also use these additional functions when working with a Timeline.

You can also use these additional functions when working with a Timeline.

• Click the Composer Mark In button to place an In-point

• Click Composer Mark Out button to place an In-point

• Press q to GOTO the In-point

• Press w to GOTO the Out-point

• Press 6 to Play-in-to-Out after you have set In- and Out-points

• To clear In- and Out-points, click the Composer Clear Both Marks button, or press g.

• You now have many clips in your Timeline. When you want to remove clip(s), you can do it in either of two ways:

• You can delete a clip, which removes it and causes all clips to its right to ripple leftward. No gap will be left.

• You can erase a clip, which removes it and leaves a gap.

In this Lesson, we will only learn how to delete clips.

Before you can remove a clip, you must select it.

Free DV provides multiple ways to select clips: Lasso-drag, Single-click, and Shift+click.

1.     The beginning of a lasso drag must start outside the Timeline tracks (no yellow or red cursor visible).

2.     Select by a left-to-right lasso:

Drag from above to select video (V2 or V1) or synced video/audio clips in V1 and A1.

Drag from below to select audio clips in A2 and/or A1

Below a left-to-right drag from above V1 has selected the second clip in the Timeline.

A lasso can net more clips than needed. In this situation, use Single-click or Shift-click selection to highlight only the clip(s) you want to select.

Single-click Selection: Simply click on the clip you want to select.

Shift-click Selection: Click on the first clip you want to select and then, holding down the shift-key, click on each of the additional clips.

When editing film production, video and audio are treated as separate media elements because audio in film is captured separately from video into an NLE. With video, however, the reverse is often true. Unfortunately, Avid is limited only to film-style production. So while you might expect that audio that was captured with video will remain locked to its video, it will not.

Therefore, audio clips captured with video must be included within a selection.

Deleting a Clip

1.     Delete Video with Monaural Audio from Tracks V1 and A1

The V1 and A1 Record Selectors must be made active by clicking on them. Their color will turn from purple to silver. The other Record Selectors must be set inactive. They must be gray. Be sure they all look the way they look below.

Select the clip or clips.

Now, press the delete key.

2.     Delete Video from Track V1

The V1 Record Selector must be made active by clicking on it. Its color will turn to silver. The other Record Selectors must be set inactive. They must be gray. Be sure they all look the way they look below.

Select the clip or clips.

Now, press the delete key.

3.     Delete Video from Track V2

The V2 Record Selector must be made active by clicking on it. Its color will turn to silver. The other Record Selectors must be set inactive. They must be gray. Be sure they all look the way they look below.

Select the clip or clips.

Now, press the delete key.

4.     Delete Monaural Audio from Track A1

The A1 Record Selector must be made active by clicking on it. Its color will turn to silver. The other Record Selectors must be set inactive. They must be gray. Be sure they all look the way they look below.

Select the clip or clips.

Now, press the delete key.

5.     Delete Monaural Audio from Track A2

The A2 Record Selector must be made active by clicking on it. Its color will turn to silver. The other Record Selectors must be set inactive. They must be gray. Be sure they all look the way they look below.

Select the clip or clips.

Now, press the delete key.

6.     Delete Stereo Audio from Tracks A1 and A2

The A1 and A2 Record Selectors must be made active by clicking on them. Their color will turn to silver. The other Record Selectors must be set inactive. They must be gray. Be sure they all look the way they look below.

Select the clip or clips.

Now, press the delete key.

7.     Delete Video with Stereo Audio from Tracks V1, A1, and A2

The V1, A1, and A2 Record Selectors must be made active by clicking on them. Their color will turn to silver. The V2 Record Selector must be set inactive. It must be gray. Be sure they all look the way they look below.

Select the clip or clips.

Now, press the delete key.

Clip(s) can be moved by dragging them to a new location.

 -       Moved clips snap to the edges of other clips

 -       Moved clips snap to the Blue Position Indicator.

 -       To move clips to a specific location, Composer Mark In at this point. Moved clips snap to the In-point.

Note that although clip(s) move, your production's length does not change.

You can create a Freeze Frame in the Timeline as follows:

1.            Select only the video track containing the clip that has the frame you want to freeze.

2.            Place the Blue Position Indicator on the Timeline frame you want to freeze.

3.            Click the Toolbar Fast Menu (hamburger-icon) button that's under the division between the Source and Composer monitors. Now, click the 10^th button in the top row: the Match Frame button.

4.            The clip holding this frame will appear in the Source monitor with the chosen frame marked as the In-point.

5.            Click in the Source Monitor to select it.

6.            Issue the Clip > Freeze Frame command.

7.            Select the desired length.

8.            Click OK for the drive.

9.            Select the Bin to get the frame and click OK.

10.      The new clip will be rendered into the currently active Bin and be tagged as “FF.”

11.      You can use this clip like any other clip.

There are times you may want to speed-up or slow-down a clip. Before you can alter the speed of a clip, it must be in the Source monitor.

If the clip is in a Bin, simply double-click it into the Source monitor.

If it is in the Timeline:

• Select only the video track containing the clip that has the frame you want to freeze.

• Place the Blue Position Indicator on the clip you want to select.

• Click the Toolbar Fast Menu (hamburger-icon) button that's under the division between the Source and Composer monitors. Now, click the 10^th button in the top row: the Match Frame button.

• The clip holding this frame will appear in the Source monitor with the chosen frame marked as the In-point.

• Click in the Source Monitor.

• Click the Mark Clip button or select In- and Out-points.

Set In- and Out-points.

Click the Source Motion Effect button.

Enter the settings you need:

• You can alter play speed by simply specifying the “% Speed.” The default is 50.00. You can specify values greater than 100% to speed-up playback.

• For DV, you should leave the “Render 2—Field Motion Effect Using” set to Duplicated Field.

Click the Create and Render button.

Select the Bin in which the motion altered clip will be placed.

Click OK.

The clip will be tagged with “FPS.” Naturally, audio will be removed from the clip.

Use the Match Frame function to load into the Composer Source window (and mark as an In-point) the frame under the blue Position Indicator in the selected track.

• Select only the video track containing the clip that has the frame you want.

• Place the Blue Position Indicator on the Timeline frame you want.

• Click the Toolbar Fast Menu (hamburger-icon) button that's under the division between the Source and Composer monitors. Now, click the 10^th button in the top row: the Match Frame button.

• The clip holding this frame will appear in the Source monitor with the chosen frame marked as the In-point.

• Click in the Source Monitor.

Now you know how to insert, move, and delete clips. In the next Lesson, you'll learn how to trim clips in a Timeline.