User Guide

him down out of frame, and for the end, move him up out of frame. When you’re finished, you
should have both these clips mirror each other with them speaking in synch.
If the two actors are not speaking in unison, then you can Offset or ‘nudge’ by holding the Alt
key and using the right and left arrows on the keyboard.
Clip Inherit
NewTek realizes much of your daily editing work can involve re-using or modifying what you
already have in the project with different source clips. The Inherit feature makes this a snap!
In our project, we have a couple of additional overlays of the man and woman nodding in
agreement. But, let’s maximize the time we’ve already spent creating the motion and keyframes
by simply inheriting. Start by ctrl-clicking both Over 1-Left and Over 1-Right to highlight
them. Ctrl-g to jump our Edit Line to 00:11:10.
In the Add Media Window, hold down the Alt key and Drag in Over2-Left.m2t on top of Over-1
Left. Notice that with the Alt key depressed, a new tooltip appears on the timeline inside the
clip: Inherit.
This helps you work faster by inheriting
all the settings in the original clip, but
using the new asset you dragged in.
Repeat this by inheriting Over2-Right
on top of the new placement of Over1-
Right. Play this section, and see that
our clips still move in and out, but with
completely new information! This is
extremely useful when you have
commercials in regular rotation but just
need to exchange one clip for another,
without modifying project length or clip
dynamics.
Unlimited Undo / Redo
In SpeedEDIT, Ctrl-z is your friend. This undo keyboard shortcut is further enhanced by saving all
your project actions with the project itself. When you save a project in a given folder, it will
create a sub-folder by that same name. When you save a project and close it, those steps are
saved and can be invoked when you resume editing days or months later!
The default setting in Window > Preferences
is the last 100 actions, but can be set to
infinite if you wish to remember every action
taken along the way. If you wish to redo
something, press Ctrl-y.