Timeline mode - extending a clip

davidgyates wrote on 10/23/2011, 12:07 PM

You've topped and tailed all your clips, and got them all lined up in ready to review.

In doing so you note that perhaps you need a few more frames added back in where you've been a bit keen trimming the material.

How do you do this? No amount of dragging corners, holding control/shift/alt keys seems to do anything other than start a transition with the adjacent clips.

The other technique maybe to drag the clip onto another track and extend it there - which gets you the longer clip...except then there's no casual way of inserting it back into the movie expanding the space it came out of without manually selecting everything later, manually dragging it sideways etc. etc.

I'm hoping I'm missing something really obvious.....

Thanks,

Dave

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johnebaker wrote on 10/23/2011, 5:08 PM

Hi David

Make sure your mouse is in All tracks mode, drag the clip to the right of the one you want to extend if the extra frames are at the end where you trimmed, or the clip you want to extend if the extra frames are at the beginning, to create a small gap.

Then drag the end or beginning of the clip to add in the extra frames.

A quick way to close any gap left is to set the transition to 'cut'. Then reapply any transitions you had between the other clips and the one you extended.

John