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Maintaining sync when splicing in clips

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Maintaining sync when splicing in clips

- [Instructor] I want to highlight an important distinction in the way that we are editing clips into this sequence. It's a very early stage, we've just got two main shots and a cutaway to a piece of dialogue. And we've just edited this 7_32_3 clip into the sequence. The method I used to add this clip was a Splice-In edit. And this means that items are pushed out of the way when you add the clip to the sequence. We're going to look at a different method in a few moments which is described as an Overwrite edit, which does not push clips out of the way. Most of the time when you're building a sequence in the beginning you're going to use the Splice-In method. And that's because you want to shuffle everything around and build the puzzle that is your sequence. But there is probably just one main risk when you use this method. When we turned off and on tracks earlier, we added or did not add clips to sequences based on the…

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