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er deletion, a gap will appear in the film sequence where the removed material was
rlier. How can you remove the gap from the movie? Easy: Pull the later scenes up to
earlier scenes until they "dock" with each other. Please make sure that the later
nes are all taken along during the pull, otherwise the gap will have simply moved to
back of the film sequence. To pull up la
ce this automatically takes all the objects found later on the timeline along with the
ject being pulled.
Hint: ject has not only a video track but also a sound track, then it is often If your pro
neces o sary to cut both of these tracks simultaneously. After import from the camera, vide
and sound tracks are automatically grouped, which is why all cutting and moving actions
have an effect on video and sound tracks simultaneously. However, if you have added a
separ s not yet been grouped with the video sequence, then you ate sound track which ha
should group them before starting to edit. To do so, select the video object and the audio
object via "Ctrl + mouse button", and in the "Edit" menu select the "Group" option (or click
the group tool).
Feel free to experiment with the editing functions. Nothing can go wrong, since all editing
ndestructive. This means that all original material
will remain unchanged on your hard disk.
only want to use a section
of it for your project, then proceed as follows:
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functions (like all editing processes) are no
Importing individual scenes from longer movies
If you have saved a longer video as a file on your hard disk and
• Double-click the desired file in the Media Pool. Double-click the file to load it in the
source monitor and play it back using the transport controls.
• Find the range which you would like to import. Position the playback marker above the
transport control at the start position of the range and click the "Set in point" button