From the course: Media Composer 2019 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

Using the Extend function - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 2019 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

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Using the Extend function

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- [Instructor] 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 Playhead 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 Aero 5 57 bike stand's 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 outpoint of the clip. The in points the beginning of the part we've got, the outpoint is the end. So, I'm going to press O, here on my keyboard, to add an outpoint, 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 outpoint, so it's the 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 Dual-Roller Trim. I'll just undo with Control + Z or Command + Z. It's the equivalent of clicking to select an edit and then dragging a Dual-Roller Trim, and let's say with the Controller Command key held down, as I have now, to snap to the in point 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 Aero 5 57 clip. Because this is effectively performing a Dual-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 occurred at a particular time in the sequence and you want them to stay at that time but there'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 outpoint and hit that Extend button, or the key that you've mapped, and adjust the timing very quickly.

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