From the course: Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

Using the Extend function - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

Start my 1-month free trial

Using the Extend function

- What if you've made an adjustment, let's say here, for example, and you realize, you know, the timing isn't right here. I'm coming out a little too early from this clip. And let me just come in a little so you can see this edit. And what if I want to change the timing of this edit? This is where the extend shortcut becomes useful. To illustrate what's going on here, I'm going to zoom in even more, I think, I want you to see the beginning and end of a frame. And I'm positioning my play head exactly on the first frame of this clip, I just use the arrow key there to jump back one frame. And with this frame displayed, I'm going to click the 'Add Marker button' so you can see, we have a marker right there, it's right on the edge. And I'll just add a marker right next to it as well. There we go. So you can see the very beginning of this arrow '5-57 bike stance clip'. The adjustment I'm about to make is going to be to this clip the 'step on roof clip'. And what I'm going to do is extend the clip using a keyboard shortcut. I'm going to tell 'Media Composer' that I want this clip to play for longer. And that means that I want to change the out point of the clip. The in point is the beginning of the part we've got, the out point is the end. So I'm going to press 'O' here on my keyboard to add an Out point. And having done that, I'm going to click the 'Extend button'. Now when I do this, 'Media Composer' is going to correctly guess that the clip I want to modify, is the one that ends at the previous edit in the sequence. If I had added an in point, 'Media Composer' would presume I wanted to extend the In point of the next clip. But I've got an Out point so it's a clip before. Now I'm going to click 'Extend' and look what happens to those markers that I added. The markers are gone. And the reason the markers have disappeared, is that the extend edit actually performs a 'Jewel Roller Trim' I'll just undo with 'Ctrl Z' or 'Command Z'. It's the equivalent of clicking to select an 'Edit' and then dragging a 'Jewel Roller Trim'. And let's say with the 'Ctrl' or 'Command' key held down as I have now to snap to the endpoint and releasing the mouse. You're actually removing the beginning of the second clip on the 'B side' and extending the end of the clip on the 'A side'. And of course you can do this the other way around. I'll just press 'G' to remove all marks. I'm going to press 'I' to add an in point. And then I'm going to click 'Extend' again. And this has now extended that our 5-47 clip. Because this is effectively performing a 'Jewel Roller Trim', it won't change the duration of your sequence. So clearly, you're going to use the extend feature as you get towards the end of the process of having first removed the content you don't want. And maybe you've got clips that occur at a particular time in the sequence. And you want them to stay at that time. But it's just the timing of a particular edit you feel like it should be a little different. You can add an in point or add an out point and hit that 'Extend button' or the key that you've mapped and adjust the timing very quickly.

Contents