Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 664)

Chapter 18 Performing Slip, Slide, Ripple, and Roll Edits 329
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To slip multiple clip items at once in the Timeline:
1 Select the Selection tool in the Tool palette (or press A).
You can also temporarily turn the Slip tool into the Selection tool by holding down the
Command key.
2 Select multiple clip items in the Timeline.
The selected clip items can be in one or more tracks. Selected clip items do not have to
be adjacent. For example, you can hold down the Command key while clicking clip
items to make a noncontiguous selection.
3 Select the Slip tool in the Tool palette (or press S).
4 Type a positive or negative timecode number to slip all selected clip items by that
amount, then press Enter.
The selected clip items slip by the duration you enter. If one of the selected clip items
cannot be slipped, none of the items are slipped.
Using the Ripple Tool to Trim an Edit
Without Leaving a Gap
A ripple edit adjusts a clip’s In or Out point, making the clip longer or shorter, without
leaving a gap in the Timeline. The change in the clip’s duration ripples outward, moving
all subsequent clips earlier or later in the Timeline. If you don’t use a ripple edit when
you change the duration of a clip, you will either leave a gap when you make a clip
shorter, or overwrite part of an existing clip if you make a clip longer. Using the Ripple
tool is the main way that you perform ripple edits, but you can also select one or more
clips in the Timeline and perform a ripple cut or ripple delete. This is when a clip is
deleted and all subsequent clips move earlier in the Timeline to fill the gap.
A ripple edit is a one-sided edit, meaning that only an In or Out point of a single clip
item is affected. All clips following the shortened or extended clip are moved
accordingly in the Timeline, so ripple edits affect both the trimmed clip and the
position of all subsequent clips in the Timeline. This is a much more major operation
than simply trimming an individual clip’s length.
Important: Ripple edits can be dangerous if you are trying to maintain sync between
clip items on different tracks, since all of the clip items on one track may move forward
or backward while the clip items on other tracks don’t.
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Before edit
After edit