MOVING AND OVERLAPPING CLIPS
Using your mouse, go to the Timeline, grab the “Emery” video clip and slide it to the left. Make sure it stays in the Video TWO track, but slide it back until it overlaps HALF of the first clip. Now, instead of starting at the 8-second point, the head of the second clip should be at the 4-second point.
When you start to drag the clip, a little window will appear showing you how far you’ve moved the clip from its original position. You want to move it 4 seconds.
Your sequence should now look like this:
If you can’t get your clips to look like the above picture, hit Apple-Z and try again.
-- Drag your playhead back to the very beginning of the timeline sequence (or use the "home" key) and then, in the Canvas Window, hit the PLAY button again.
As you can see, when it gets to the 2nd video clip (“Emory”), it cuts away from the first clip (“Titanic”) and plays the second. That’s because the HIGHEST video track will always take precedence. When there is video on a higher track it will playback instead of the overlapped footage on the lower track.
Watch the entire sequence from the beginning again. Make sure you understand what is happening here.
NOTE: This only applies to Video tracks. When you overlap Audio tracks, you will hear both/all of them.
This is a very simple and easy way for you to tweak your edit points between one shot and the next. You simply slide the video back and forth on the VIDEO TWO track until it matches exactly where you want it to with the first video track without having to cut little bits off of the clip in the V1 track.
This is also useful for quickly cutting to a different scene or a reaction shot and then cutting back to the original shot. By placing the cutaway or reaction shot onto V2, you don't necessarily have to make any actual cuts into the video on V1.
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