Slide Edits

A Slide Edit moves a clip left or right on the timeline, but automatically adjusts the clips next to it to compensate, ensuring no gaps are created and the total sequence duration remains identical.

Why Use a Slide Edit?

Imagine you have a 3-second reaction shot of an actor, wedged between two long dialogue clips. You realize the reaction shot happens too early. You want it to happen 2 seconds later.

If you just pick up the clip and move it, you will overwrite the second dialogue clip and leave a 2-second hole where the reaction shot used to be.

Instead, you use a Slide Edit. This physically slides the clip 2 seconds down the timeline, whilst automatically extending the clip before it and trimming the clip after it.

How to Perform a Slide Edit

1. Select the Trim Tool by pressing T.
2. Hover your cursor over the lower half of the clip's thumbnail on the timeline. (Remember: upper half is Slip, lower half is Slide).
3. The cursor will change into a Slide icon.
4. Click and drag left or right.

As you drag, look at the Program Monitor. ORAPHIM will display a dual-screen view:

• The left screen shows the new final frame of the clip before the one you are sliding.
• The right screen shows the new first frame of the clip after the one you are sliding.

When you release the mouse, your clip has successfully migrated down the timeline without causing any gaps or destructive overwrites.