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Editing Part of a Source Clip to Fit Into a Specific Range
of the Timeline
In this example, you have a section of a clip or a gap in the edited sequence of clips in the
Timeline that you want to fill with as much of the current source clip as it will take to
“plugthe hole.”
1 Set an In point in the source clip, if necessary, to define the first frame of the range of
source media that you want to edit into the Timeline.
Setting a source clip In point only
2 Set In and Out points in the Timeline to set both where you want the incoming clip to
go, and how much of the incoming clip you want to use.
Setting both In and Out points of the Timeline for a gap
3 To make the edit, click the Overwrite Clip button in the toolbar, press the F10 key, or
drag a clip onto the appropriate overlay in the Timeline Viewer.
The resulting edit; the duration of the Timeline edit points
define how much of the source clip is edited
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