Moving the clip in the Video Track

andytizer · Post by **andytizer** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:15 pm

I'm new to VideoStudio 10.

I'd just like to know how to move a clip away from time 0 in the Video Track. This is quite simple to do in the Overlay Track where I can place a clip anywhere I want, but there I can't add proper transitions to the clips I put there. I'm surprised that I can't move the clip to any time in the Video Track. How does one solve this problem?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:05 pm

You have to have something start at 0. If not a video clip, then insert a color clip. Most people do this anyway as the background for their opening title.

FYI - unlike the overlay tracks, you can't have any blank spaces in the main video track. Whenever you insert a video or color clip they will butt up against neighboring clips.

andytizer · Post by **andytizer** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:27 pm

When using Premiere Pro I didn't have this problem, it just rendered the space without a clip as black.

Even if I have something start at 0, it is annoying that it will always ripple when I edit the length of a clip (I am trying to make a music video where many individual clips at synced to the beat of the song). Is there any way I can disable this in the Video Track editing?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:17 pm

Enable ripple editing -- its the little icon to the immediate top left of the timeline. It looks like a little blue-grey rectangle with three lines radiating out to three smaller boxes stacked on top of each other. Hover your mouse over it and it should say 'Enable/Disable Ripple Editing'.

When you activate it, you have to do so for each track you want to be affected. When enabled, it affects everything to the right of your edit point.

As for Adobe Premier Pro, comparing it to VS is a little like comparing apples with oranges, or rather, a Rolls Royce with a Volswagen Beetle. Premiere can do all sorts of things VS cannot, just as, in the Ulead range, Media Studio Pro 8 is the much bigger brother to VS10.

We are just talking about different ends of the video editing market, and in a sense, you get what you are prepared to pay for. That being said, VS10+ in my view gives you a hell of a lot of bang for your buck.

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:57 pm

Ken Berry wrote:As for Adobe Premier Pro, comparing it to VS is a little like comparing apples with oranges, or rather, a Rolls Royce with a Volswagen Beetle. Premiere can do all sorts of things VS cannot, just as, in the Ulead range, Media Studio Pro 8 is the much bigger brother to VS10. We are just talking about different ends of the video editing market, and in a sense, you get what you are prepared to pay for. That being said, VS10+ in my view gives you a hell of a lot of bang for your buck.

Ken, you read my mind - comparing the two is flattering (to Ulead), but their target audience is very different. VideoStudio tries to automate and minimize tasks that might cause problems for their target audience. So by left-justifying the 1st track, it avoids the possibility of a someone new to video editing of making a mistake and leaving "gaps" in the video timeline. PPro users, as well as other prosumer NLE applications, give you the freedom of moving things around the timeline because they assume you know exactly how you want your video to play...

Regards,
George

andytizer · Post by **andytizer** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:58 am

Ken Berry wrote: When you activate it, you have to do so for each track you want to be affected. When enabled, it affects everything to the right of your edit point.

I tried this and I'm still unable to move the clip wherever I want it (it remains left-justified). I find this feature very curious. How is it possible to create an intro credit sequence of titles without having anything in the video track? Is there no fix for this?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:09 am

Black Lab already told you: insert a colour clip or photo to the left of the first video, so that the colour clip butts up against the left hand end of the timeline. Use a black clip if you want that Adobe effect. Pull its yellow handle on the right side of the clip in the timeline further right, or else set the clock for its duration. You can then put titles over that space in the overlay track.

Even Adobe Premiere Pro has a bin of colour clips (which it calls mattes) for this purpose (and of course for insertion elsewhere throughout a video -- I also use them at the end). And Adobe also even has a special black video clip which you can use as an alternate option.

Otherwise, as you have already said, you are left with the Henry Ford option by leaving an actual gap in the Adobe timeline. Then you can have any colour as long as its black!