Specifications

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Timeline Editing
Practice Your Skills
1. If necessary, click the triangle to the left of the Chapter Exercise
Material folder to open it.
2. Click the triangle to the left of the Chapter 3 folder. This is the folder
you will be using for the exercises in this chapter. (This folder includes
two bins: _Sequences Chap 3 and Magician B-roll.)
3. Open the _Sequences Chap 3 bin, and load the sequence called
Montage - Top/Tail.
The Russian dance music from the Urban Nutcracker is edited on A1.
Several video clips have quickly been spliced into V1.
Yo u o bvi ou sly ha ve t oo mu ch vi deo ma te ri a l f or t hi s s equ en ce . You r j ob
is to cut down each video segment using Top and Tail.
4. Yo u’ l l n ee d to m ap To p a nd Tai l t o y our ke yb oa r d. To d o t his , o pe n
the Command palette by pressing Ctrl+3 (Windows) or Command+3
(Macintosh). Make sure ‘Button to Button’ Reassignment is selected in
the Command palette.
5. Next, click the Settings tab of the Project window, and open the
Keyboard settings.
6. From the Edit tab of the Command palette, drag the Top button to the
E key of the on-screen keyboard, and drag the Tail button to the R key
of the on-screen keyboard.
7. Close the Command palette and the Keyboard settings.
8. Now, go through the sequence, and select the most interesting sec-
tions of each shot to include in the segment. Additionally, try to make
the transition points fall on distinct beats of the music:
 Press E (Top) each time you want to extract material from the head
of the segment to the position indicator.
 Press R (Tail) each time you want to extract material from the posi-
tion indicator to the tail of the segment.
When you’re selecting cut points in relation to the music, you can
display the sample plot in the audio track of the Timeline by selecting
Timeline Fast Menu > Audio Data > Waveform.
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