Apple Final Cut Pro 7 User Manual
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Chapter 3
Preparing Clips in the Viewer
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Arrange a title and clip to appear side by side:
Place the playhead in the title clip in the Timeline.
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In the Timeline, double-click Sample Clip 1, the background clip, to open it in the Viewer.
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Drag the corner of Sample Clip 1 to reduce the clip size so that it is smaller than the
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screen size, as in the illustration below.
Reposition the clip by dragging it left or right to leave a blank space on the screen.
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Double-click the superimposed title clip in the Timeline to open it in the Viewer.
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Drag the text in the Viewer to a good position next to the background clip. Resize the
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text to match the space available on the screen.
Press Option-R to render the changed clips, if needed.
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Play the movie in the Timeline to see the title change. Experiment with repositioning
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and resizing the title and the background clip.