- Reference 4.1 Understanding a Project
- Exercise 4.1.1 Creating a Project
- Reference 4.2 Defining the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.2.1 Appending the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.2.2 Rearranging Clips in the Primary Storyline
- Reference 4.3 Modifying Clips in the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.3.1 Performing Insert Edits
- Exercise 4.3.2 Rippling the Primary Storyline
- Reference 4.4 Timing the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.4.1 Inserting a Gap Clip
- Exercise 4.4.2 Blading and Deleting
- Exercise 4.4.3 Joining a Through Edit
- Exercise 4.4.4 Refining Some Sound Bite Edits
- Reference 4.5 Editing Above the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.5.1 Adding and Trimming Connected B-roll
- Exercise 4.5.2 Understanding Connected Clip Sync and Trimming Behaviors
- Reference 4.6 Creating a Connected Storyline
- Exercise 4.6.1 Converting Connected Clips into a Connected Storyline
- Exercise 4.6.2 Appending Clips to a Connected Storyline
- Reference 4.7 Editing Below the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.7.1 Connecting a Music Clip
- Reference 4.8 Finessing the Rough Cut
- Exercise 4.8.1 Adjusting the Edits
- Exercise 4.8.2 Adjusting Clip Volume Levels
- Exercise 4.8.3 Connecting Two Additional B-Roll Clips
- Exercise 4.8.4 Refining Edits Using Cross Dissolves and Fade Handles
- Reference 4.9 Sharing Your Progress
- Exercise 4.9.1 Sharing an iOS-Compatible File
- Lesson Review
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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Exercise 4.6.1 Converting Connected Clips into a Connected Storyline
You can create a connected storyline comprising the first three B-roll clips in two easy steps.
Select the three connected B-roll clips at the start of the project.
Control-click any one of the three, and from the shortcut menu, choose Create Storyline, or press Command-G.
Notice the gray bar above the clips that becomes the outline of a container surrounding the clips. Now that the clips are contained in a storyline, you can ripple trim them.
Place the Select tool over the end point of DN_9390.
The ripple trim icon appears with the filmstrip.
Drag the end point to the left to shorten the clip, but do not release the mouse button yet.
A few things for you to notice. First, the two following B-roll clips ripple along with the trim. The storyline established a horizontal, magnetic relationship similar to the primary storyline clips.
Second, as you ripple trim the edit point, a two-up display appears in the Viewer. The area to the left shows the new end point of the hangar door opening clip while the right shows the existing start point of DN_9465 recorded from under the helicopter. The two-up display allows you to see both sides of the edit so you may match the action between the two clips.
Referencing the two-up display, ripple trim the end point of DN_9390 appearing on the left to match the action appearing on the right in the Viewer’s two-up display. You should drag left and right to locate the best match.
Enclosing connected clips in a storyline gives you the advantages of a storyline’s magnetic properties when trimming and rearranging the B-roll clips.
Another trim tool similar to ripple trim is roll trim. Whereas ripple trim modifies the duration of one clip (and potentially the project’s duration), the roll trim modifies the adjoining points of two clips, not affecting other clips or the total project duration. The roll trim achieves this net-zero duration change by trimming the opposing edit points in opposite directions: inserting frames at one edit point while removing the same number of frames from the adjoining edit point.
In the edit you just completed, the roll trim is handy for fine-tuning the cut’s trigger. With the ripple trim, your focus was on continuity of action at the edit. Now that the continuity is in place, you may need to adjust when the cut happens. Should the cut to the shot underneath the helicopter occur as Mitch reaches for the camera, while Mitch is dropping down, or even after Mitch has stopped moving? The roll trim allows you to explore all of those options.
From the Tools pop-up menu, choose the Trim tool.
The roll trim function requires that the Trim tool be selected.
Place the Trim tool over the edit point between DN_9390 and DN_9465.
With the Trim tool on the edit point, the tool becomes the roll trim, with filmstrips pointing at both clips to indicate that the end point of DN_9390 and the start of DN_9465 are about to be changed.
Drag to the right until Mitch has squatted down, which you can see in the Viewer two-up.
Drag back to the left and decide where within the action to cut between the two clips.
The roll trim allowed you to move the edit to find the best cut point between the two clips. This roll trim and the earlier ripple trim worked because the clips are enclosed in a storyline. Grouping clips together in a connected storyline brings the trimming and magnetic properties of the primary storyline to these clips.
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