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Slide

Use slide in Oraphim with a production-safe workflow, practical example, verification steps, and common failure checks.

Updated August 27, 2026

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.

Use Slide in a production project

  1. Open Edit workspace and select the intended clip, edit point, track, or timeline range.
  2. Establish the correct input state first—timing, media link, layer/node enable state, project settings, or source selection as relevant.
  3. Apply or adjust Slide with one clear goal. Change the smallest set of controls needed to reach that goal so the result remains understandable and reversible.
  4. Review the complete affected range in context. Scrub difficult frames and also play at normal speed when motion or audio is involved.
  5. Save a named milestone before moving into another major operation, especially after graph changes, tracking, AI processing, relinking, simulation, or delivery setup.

Practical guidance

A slide moves a clip earlier or later while compensating adjacent edit points. Use it when the clip duration is right but its placement between neighbors is not.

A useful test is a short 5–10 second section containing both an easy case and a difficult case for this feature. Tune against the difficult moment without breaking the easy one. If two approaches are plausible, duplicate/version the project state and compare them rather than stacking both together blindly.

Verify the result

  • Play through the edit at normal speed and check upstream/downstream timing.
  • Toggle/bypass the operation where possible and make sure the change you intended is actually responsible for the result.
  • Check selection, visibility/mute/solo state, node connections, track locks, range, and source identity when the result appears missing.
  • Save and reopen before treating a complex setup as reusable.
  • If this feature changes final pixels or audio, render a short review and inspect the file outside Oraphim.