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Use the overwrite edit

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Use the overwrite edit

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- [Instructor] During the early stages of building your sequence, it's likely that you're going to focus mainly on inserting clips, just to build things up in the right order. As you get further into the edit, you're probably going to find that you want to shovel things around on the timeline less and less, and instead, you want to selectively add and remove content without changing the timing, and that's really where the overwrite editing mode comes into play. There are some issues with it, tho, and I suppose that's why it's a red arrow. I'm just going to demonstrate by moving our playhead to the beginning of this sequence, and let's take a look at a couple of ways of approaching this. Before I kick off, notice that I'm in this Overwrite clips sequence, and I've got the R9_02 Bouldering clip open in the source monitor. We're just using the climbing media here. I'm going to demonstrate by marking a section of this clip. So I'm going to mark and in and an out, and I just want to…

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