smoke 3 basic editing

Smoke IIIBasic Editing

Smoke III

Behind the Scenes in ‘Fix it in Post’

Let’s Get Started Load your 420

lesson project Switch to the

Timeline view if necessary

Change the view to Source - Sequence

3 Edit Buttons Yellow button

Insert Edit Inserts the clip at the play

head position Ripples the timeline to the

right to make room for the new clip inserted into the timeline

Shortcut F9 Laptop fn & F9

A Little Catch-up if Necessary

If your timeline is empty select the Elysium or Pastel music clip and click the Insert button to add it to the timeline

A Little Catch-up if Necessary

Move the play head to the start of the music clip.

Select the fur subclip and insert that clip to the timeline

How About Another? Make sure the play

head is at the end of the fur clip in the timeline

Select the Fishing clip and set new In and Out points to this clip

Press F9 or click the yellow button to insert this clip to the timeline

Viewing the Timeline Horizontal Scroll Bar

Dragging the bar up and down changes the zoom level of your timeline

Dragging the bar left and right allows you to see other parts of your timeline

Yellow line within the scroll bar tells you where your play head is in relation to what you currently see

Have a Look Around Click on the scroll bar

and drag up to zoom into your timeline.

Click and drag left and right to look at different parts of your timeline

Note where the yellow line is in relation to your current view

Have a Look Around

Press Shift Z to snap your full to fit your entire timeline into the current view

Need to see everything quickly? Press Shift Z

3 Edit Buttons Red button

Overwrite edit This will overwrite any

content currently on the timeline at the point of the edit (where the play head is located)

Shortcut F10 Laptop fn & F10

Perform an Overwrite Edit

In the timeline, move the play head a second or so before its current Out point.

Select the Going clip and set an In and Out point

Click on the red edit button or press F10 to perform an overwrite edit

Once Again In the timeline, leave the

play head at the Out point of the Going clip.

Select the Wings clip and set an In point

Set the out point 8 seconds after the In point

Click on the red edit button or press F10 to perform an overwrite edit

Fix a Long Edit In the timeline,

play the sequence and stop the play head about 3 seconds after Wings starts to play We will cover the

rest of this clip with a new one

Fix a Long Edit Select the Test

Skills clip and set an In point at 12:45:29:00 before the diver looks at the camera.

Set an Out point at 12:45:33:15 after the jellyfish passes him

Fix a Long Edit Press the red edit

button or press F10 to perform an overwrite edit over the Wings clip.

Scrub back in your sequence and play your new arrangement.

3 Edit Buttons Blue button

Replace edit (default) Selected clip in the

sequence is replaced with the selected clip in the media Library

Media Library clip must be at least as long as the clip in the sequence

Replace a Clip In the timeline

select the test skills clip

In the media library select the began clip

Click the replace edit button Note the clip is now

began with the same duration

More Than Meets the Eye

The blue button has several other types of edits available

Click on the white triangle to see the other edit functions

More Than Meets the Eye

Aligned Edit Like the overwrite edit,

only backwards Uses the play head as

the Edit Out point Overwrites any clips

prior to the play head position to the duration set by the clip you edited

Try the Align Edit Position the play

head somewhere within the began clip.

Select the fishing clip Select the Align Edit

Notice how it overwrites clips before the play head

Undo the action (Command Z)

More Than Meets the Eye

Append Edit Places the selected clip

at the every end of the sequence Doesn’t matter

whether the last clip is video or audio

Doesn’t matter where the play head is

Try the Append Edit Position the play head

somewhere within the began clip.

Select the fishing clip Select the Append Edit

Notice that it places the clip after the very last clip in the timeline (audio)

Undo the action (Command Z)

More Than Meets the Eye

Prepend Edit Places the selected clip

at the every start of the sequence Doesn’t matter

whether the first clip is video or audio

Doesn’t matter where the play head is

Try the Prepend Edit Position the play head

somewhere within the began clip.

Select the fishing clip Select the Prepend

Edit Notice that it places the

clip at the very start of the timeline

Undo the action (Command Z)

More Than Meets the Eye

Ripple Replace Replaces the selected clip

in the sequence with a clip from the Media Library

Sequence adjusts to the replacing clip’s duration If shorter, the timeline

clips ripple left If longer, the timeline

clips ripple right

Try the Ripple Replace Edit

Select the wings clip Select the fishing clip

in the Media Library Select Ripple Replace

Notice that fishing is now in the wings spot in the sequence and the clips to the right rippled left to close the gap

Undo the action (Command Z)

More Than Meets the Eye

Replace Media Replaces the selected clip

in the sequence with a clip from the Media Library

Duration of the replaced clip does not change Replacing clip needs to

be at least as long as the clip it will replace

Will ignore out points and use all media if necessary

Try the Replace Media Edit

Select the wings clip again

Select the fishing clip in the Media Library

Select Media Replace Notice that fishing is now

in the wings spot in the sequence, but the duration of the clip did not change

Undo the action (Command Z)

More Than Meets the Eye

Fit to fill Replaces the selected clip

in the sequence with a clip from the Media Library

Speed of the replacing clip will adjust to fill the space of the original clip in the sequence Shorter = slows down Longer = speeds up

Try the Fit to Fill Edit In the viewer, press

Shift I to move the play head to the In point

Press Shift 3 times to move the playhead forward 1 second (10 frames X3)

Set an Out point so the total duration of this clip is 1 second

Try the Fit to Fill Edit In the timeline select

the began clip This clip is nearly 4

seconds long Select the Fit to Fill

edit Play the sequence and

notice how the fishing clip is now a slomo

Press Command Z to undo

Finish Off the Sequence

Click in the empty space to the right of the last clip above the audio Creates a gap clip

@2 ½ seconds long for now

Select the sunset quest clip in the Media Library

Finish Off the Sequence

Press Shift I to move the play head to the beginning of the clip

Press I to set an In point

Click on the Duration window and type 5 0 0 and press return to set a duration of 5 seconds

Finish Off the Sequence

Press Shift I to move the play head to the beginning of the clip

Press I to set an In point

Click on the Duration window and type 5 0 0 and press return to set a duration of 5 seconds

Storyboard Editing Arrange your

thumbnailed clips in the order you need them

Thumbnail with the red outline is the sequence

Prepping for Storyboard Editing

Change the view from Source-Sequence to Thumbnails

Storyboard Editing Thumbnail view is

based on what is selected in the Media Library

Where the Eye is at is what you see on the right

Prepping for Storyboard Editing

In the Media Library make sure the eye is next to your Video folder

Click on other folders to change the thumbnail view to other folders, but return the view to the Video folder

Organize your Clips Click on the

Thumbnails Task menu

Choose Arrange > Clean Up All Clips arranged five

across, but not all the clips can be seen

To see all the clips within a folder choose Fit All

Getting Around in Thumbnail View

All the same player controls and markers still work in Thumbnail view

Put your cursor on the clip you are interested in marking & use keyboard shortcuts to navigate and mark the clip

Getting Around in Thumbnail View

All the markers looks the same, only much smaller In point Play head Marker Out point

Navigate a Thumb Simply place your cursor

on the journey clip Press L to play the clip

The clip becomes selected and begins playing from its current play head position

Try J, K, L, Space bar, ,

Put the cursor in the lower third and drag back and forth

Mark a Thumb Put the cursor in

the lower third of the thumbnail and scrub to 2:45:00 and mark an In point

Scrub to 2:48:00 and mark an Out point

Create a New Sequence

Right click the Sequence folder in the Media Library and select New > Sequence

Name the new sequence Storyboard, then select Create in the bottom right

Do a Storyboard Edit Holding the Command key, click on Journey,

then 3 or 4 other clips in the media browser that have In and Out points The order you select them will be the order of clips in

the timeline

Do a Storyboard Edit While the clips are selected, drag the clips to

the timeline over the video track in the timeline

Do a Storyboard Edit In the bottom right corner, click on Timeline

Layout Combo box It should be set to home (Shift Z) and will zoom out

to show you the complete sequence of all your clips

Do a Storyboard Edit Play your

storyboard sequence Your viewer in

thumbnail view is the clip with the red outline in the media browser

Homework Assignment:

Take a snapshot of your timeline Should have video

clips over the entire music track

Save the image to the Smoke 3 Dropbox

Smoke IIIBasic Editing