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Replace Edit Using Clips Already in the Timeline
To facilitate workflows where multiple clips are stacked in the Timeline to manually track
different takes or versions of stock footage, VFX clips, or other versionable media, there’s a
method of drag and drop replace editing that copies the grade of the clip being replaced to the
clip you’re replacing it with at the same time, so that newer versions of effects can inherit the
same grade as the previous version of the effect being replaced. This only works for clips that
have already been edited into the Timeline and that are superimposed (over or under) other
clips in the Timeline, such as in the following screenshot. Be aware that this technique can also
be used for multiple selected clips on the Timeline to do several replace edits all at once.
(Left) Before replace editing a clip in the Timeline, (Right) After
Command-dragging a clip over one under it in the Timeline to
replace edit the one below with the one above
To replace edit one clip that’s stacked on the Timeline into another:
1 Select one or more clips that are already on the Timeline. Typically these will be clips
that are superimposed over other clips.
2 Hold the command key down while dragging one superimposed clip on top of another
to overwrite a clip and copy its grade to the clip you’re overwriting it with.
NOTE: This won’t work with clips you’re editing into the Timeline from the Media Pool
or Source Viewer.
Fit to Fill
Fit to fill edits are the only edit type that actually use all four edit points, and it’s the only edit
type that retimes clips at the same time as they’re being edited. By setting In and Out points in
the incoming source clip, and another pair of In and Out points in the Timeline, you can stretch
or compress the timing of the specified range of source media to cover the entire specified
range of the Timeline. In the process, the speed ratio of the clip changes so the clip plays in
either fast or slow motion.
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