User Guide

Left-clicking will now crop in all four sides of the clip. Go ahead and try it, I’ll wait.
Ok, now hit Ctrl-z to undo that. We just want to crop the right edge, so this time, when the tool-
top changes to ‘crop’ use the right mouse button and align the right edge with center frame. This
right-mouse action can be used for all the quick moves you can easily perform in this window:
size, crop, rotate, and smooth.
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Now that she’s framed, let’s fly her in
to this position before the starts
speaking.
Scrub the edit line to about 05:05,
just before she says “What do you
mean?”. Positioner offers an
automated keyframer that only needs
be activated once, and any
subsequent repositioning is
automatically noted. Since we want
her to be here by the time she
beings speaking, activate Auto
Keyframer at the top of the
Positioning panel
Press the ‘q’ key to jump the clips inpoint. Since Auto Keyframing is now active, we can just hold
down shift and drag the clip upward until it’s out of view. Press the space bar to play and see our
clip slide into place, and she begins speaking.
Set the Edit Line to 7:00 seconds (just after she stops speaking) and click Keyframe again. This
will hold her in position throughout her dialogue. Click on Ease Out next to Keyframe. Press ‘w’ to
jump to the clip outpoint and Shift-drag her downward
out of view. SpeedEDIT even gives you the ability to
back up a few seconds (pre-roll) into a clip to check its
timing! For this, Shift + Spacebar will back up about 3
seconds prior to the selected clip.
She’s only using half the frame, so let’s pair her up with a complimentary move from bottom-to-
top. Directly underneath her clip, bring in Over 1-Right.m2t. And turn on Overlay ( the ‘y’ key).
In the same manner as before, move him frame right and crop the left edge to center frame.
Since her keyframes are already set, we can re-select her clip above and jump right the
keyframes with the Previous / Next arrows on either side of the keyframe button. Again, the first
keyframe we want to set for him would be at 05:05, so click the right arrow next to Keyframe to
set the Edit Line there, then select his clip on the timeline and click Keyframe in Positioning
panel. In the same manner, set the keyframe at about 07:00. Then, for his first frame, move