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46 VIDEO EDITOR
Inserting clips
Clips are the objects that make up your movie. A clip can be an image, a video, a
transition, a title, a background color, or an audio file. Following insertion into the
Timeline, clips can be trimmed and special effects can be applied without
modifying the original source files. This is designed to give you greater confidence
in editing your video. To start work on a video project, you need to first insert clips
into the Timeline. Once inserted, you can begin to edit and arrange them into your
final video production.
Inserting video, audio and image clips
The easiest way to insert a video, audio, or image clip into the Timeline is to click
the appropriate Insert button on the Timeline Toolbar. You can also choose its
corresponding command from the Insert menu or the right-click pop-up menu. A
dialog box opens allowing you to select a file that Video Editor supports. Supported
formats include MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DV type 1 & 2 AVI, as well as
QuickTime and Flash files.
Double-clicking an empty time portion of a video track opens either the Insert
Video or Insert Image File dialog box depending on the settings in the Edit
tab of the File: Preferences dialog box.
If you choose a video file that contains both video and audio data, the clips are
placed in both the video and audio tracks: these clips remain connected to
maintain synchronicity. (You can separate them by clicking the Clip: Split
command.) Clips already in the Production Library can simply be dragged onto the
Timeline. You can also drag-and-drop clips directly from Windows Explorer.
The files you insert should match the properties of your video project to
ensure the best possible output results.
When you insert clips, they are placed at the position of your pointer. How inserted
clips affect any neighboring clips is determined by the Ripple Editing mode. If
you are in Ripple Editing mode, you can insert the clip anywhere you like on a
compatible track (even over existing clips) and the clip pushes along any other
clips which appear in the same track. If you are not in Ripple Editing mode, you
can only insert the clip into an empty clip slot. An empty clip slot starts from the
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