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CHAPTER 5: TRIMMING ■

of the scene being slid. The third monitor is the last frame of the slid scene, and the

fourth monitor contains the first frame of the next incoming scene. When you slide,

the first and fourth monitors are affected. The second and third monitors, which con-

tain the clip that is sliding in the Timeline, do not change.

Here’s another example of where sliding can be used: Let’s say we put together

a program in which there is a fast-cut montage in the middle. Somewhere along the

line, the montage went out of sync so that the music was about three frames behind

the picture. This has happened to me on occasion. Rather than try to reconstruct the

sequence, we can enter Slide mode and slide the visual of the entire montage forward

three frames. The correction can be made in about half a minute, and everything will

look great again.

There are other reasons for sliding, including moving visuals to match narration

or music, adjusting a shot for continuity, and so on. As you gain experience using the

slide form of trimming, you’ll find more reasons to use it.

If you performed a trim and later realize that you need to go back to Trim mode

on that same transition, pressing Alt/Option as you choose Trim mode will bring you

back to your last trimmed transition.

More Trimming Considerations

After you master the basic trimming methods, you need to be able to deal with unusual

situations.

Analyzing the Transition Using Play Loop

You will often find yourself in situations in which some anomalous audio or video

enters the frame and it appears to be right in the middle of your transition. There

might be a flash frame of other unnecessary media, or a “blip” sound where dialogue,

music, or narration was cut off. This sort of thing is normal and is to be expected

when doing nonlinear editing. Again, you are sculpting out a sequence, so a lot of odd

things can happen during the process.

In cases such as these, it’s really hard to determine where the problem exists

because it is so close to your transition. On both Xpress Pro and Free DV, there is a

way to more closely analyze the transition to determine whether it came from the out-

going A side or the incoming B side.

You can jockey through the transition using the regular Source/Record naviga-

tional tools, but you might still find it difficult to determine which side (A or B) of the

transition that the sound occurs. To remedy this situation, the system allows you to

play the trim loop, looping only on one side (either A or B, but not both) to determine

where the stray audio or video frame is located.

To isolate the trim sides during trim loop, play back the trim loop as you nor-

mally would; then select the Q button to loop the A side of the transition only. Only

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