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Fit to fill edits are especially valuable when you have a source clip in which the action is slightly
slow, and you just want to speed it up by squeezing it into a shorter duration of the Timeline.
They’re also incredibly handy in situations when you have a gap in an edited sequence of clips
to fill with a source clip that’s just not long enough, but in which slightly slower motion won’t
benoticeable.
Fit to fill edits do not ripple the Timeline.
To use fit to fill to edit a clip into the Timeline:
1 Do one of the following to define where in the Timeline to edit the incoming clip:
a You can set both In and Out points in the Timeline, to define the duration you want
to fill with the incoming source clip as a three-point edit.
b You can clear the Timeline In and Out points (pressing Option-X), so that you can
instead use the duration of whichever clip or gap intersects the playhead on the
track with the destination controls assigned to them. In the following screenshot, the
clip can easily be edited to take the place of the gap by positioning the playhead
anywhere within it.
Setting timeline In and Out points to mark a gap
2 Next, you’ll need to set both In and Out points in the Source Viewer to define a longer
or shorter source clip that you want to fill into the available space. In this example, we
have a very short section of the source clip defined that, because of the matching
action in the Timeline, must be fit into the larger gap seen above.
Setting In and Out points in a source clip to define a shorter
duration segment that you want to completely fill the gap
3 Click the audio and video destination controls of the tracks you want to edit the
incoming source clip onto. If necessary, create new tracks.
4 Choose Edit > Fit to Fill, drag any clip onto the Fit to Fill overlay in the Timeline Viewer,
or press Shift-F11.
The resulting edit; the shorter source clip is retimed to fit into the longer timeline gap
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