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3 Right-click one of the selected clips in the Media Pool and choose “Insert selected clips
to timeline with handles” from the contextual menu.
The selected clips are added to the Timeline starting at the position of the playhead.
To change the length of handles that are removed, open the Editing panel of the User
Preferences and change the “Default handles length” setting. Handles will not be added in
either of the following two cases:
If any of the selected clips in the Media Pool already have handles because of In and
Out points that you’ve set, then additional handles won’t be added.
If the duration of the frames to be removed to create handles in this operation is greater
than the duration of one or more of the clips you’ve selected in the Media Pool, then
handles won’t be added at all.
Three-Point Editing From the Media Pool
You can also execute three-point edits directly from the Media Pool, with no need to use the
Source Viewer.
Example: Assembling Clips Into the
Timeline From the Media Pool
If you want, you can also edit clips directly into the Timeline from the Media Pool using a variety
of commands. This can be a fast way of appending clips to the end of the Timeline (although
you can also perform insert edits this way).
To edit one or more clips from the Media Pool to the Timeline:
1 If necessary, set In and Out points for each of the clips you want to edit into the
Timeline using either the Media pool thumbnails (in Thumbnail view), the Media Pool
Filmstrip Viewer (in List view), or by opening each one into the Source Viewer. For each
method, press I to set an In point, and O to set an Out point.
2 Change the sort order of the Media Pool’s browser area to put the clips into the order
in which you want them to appear. In Thumbnail view you can use the Sort Order
menu, but in List view you can click the header of any metadata column to sort by that
column’s data.
3 Position the playhead to where you want to edit the clips.
4 Click, drag, use the Command-Option and Command-Shift Up and Down Arrow Key
shortcuts, or use the Option-18 and Command-Option-18 key shortcuts to assign the
video and audio destination controls to the tracks you want to edit the video and audio
of the incoming clip(s) to. Click any destination control itself to disable it if you want to
edit clips into the Timeline as audio or video only.
5 Select one or more clips you want to edit. Insert, overwrite, place on top, ripple
overwrite, and append at end edits are all capable of editing multiple clips at once,
while replace and fit to fill edits can only edit one clip at a time, and will only edit the
first of multiple selected clips into the Timeline.
6 To perform the edit, do one of the following:
Drag the selected clips to the Timeline Viewer and drop them on an editing overlay
to execute that edit type.
Right-click one or more selected clips in the Media Pool, and choose “Insert
Selected Clips to Timeline,” or “Append Selected Clips to Timeline.
The selected clip(s) are edited into the Timeline.
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