Performing an Insert Edit in an Advanced Sequence
The default timeline for an advanced sequence has four tracks: Video, NAT (natural sound), SOT (sound on tape), and VO (voice-over).
For information about colors in the timeline and other sequence information, see
Understanding Basic and Advanced Sequences and
Selecting a Horizontal or Vertical Timeline.
If you are editing an advanced sequence, you can drag a clip from the Media viewer to the Sequence Timeline as either an insert or an overwrite edit (see
Performing an Overwrite Edit in an Advanced Sequence).
When you drag a clip to the timeline, a thin guideline is displayed through the video track. If you release the mouse button above the guideline, you perform an overwrite edit. If you release the mouse button below the guideline, you perform an insert edit, as shown in the following illustration.
The examples in this topic use a horizontal timeline. If you are editing a sequence in a vertical timeline, the guideline is also vertical, and the edits are determined by dragging to the left or to the right of the guideline.
For Interplay Production sequences, the aspect ratio and the frame rate is determined by the first clip that you add to the sequence. Any additional clips can have a different resolutions but must match the initial frame rate. See
Creating a Sequence.
To perform an insert edit using drag and drop:
1. Load a clip in the Media pane and mark In and Out points.
The amount of material that you insert is determined by the In-to-Out duration of the asset.
2. (Optional) Click the audio track indicator or indicators for the tracks on which you want to insert the audio. You can enable NAT or SOT or both, or VO. A VO edit does not include video.
If you do not enable an audio track, you can insert NAT or SOT audio by dragging the clip to either audio track.
3. Drag the clip from the Media viewer to a location in the video track or an audio track. Make sure the mouse pointer is below the guideline.
The timeline shows where the insert will take place and how it will affect the other clips in the timeline.
4. Release the mouse button.
The selected material is inserted into the timeline and the position indicator moves to the first frame of the next segment.
