smoke 3 basic editing
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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