Using the Slip & Slide Tools Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is C.J. Representing expertvillage.com. In this clip, I am going to show you how to use the slip and slide tools. Now it's time for some slip and slide. Wow! Slip and slide. Ah, no not the water bathing suits fun type of slip and slide. No this is the geek Final Cut Pro tool slide. Of course you are a geek like myself; a very handsome, magnetic and worldly geek, like all Final Cut Pro editors are. So keep your eyes open for those cute Final Cut Pro editors. The slip and slide tool are both in the tool pallet. They are five tools down. As you can see, they are represented by these two circles with some lines through them. Next to that is the time remap tool but we will talk about that later. So let's click the slip tool and bring that over here. Now the slip tool is used for effecting clips directly. Not in between the clips, but directly. So if I click and hold you see now that there is this bar; kind of transparent brown bar moving across. What I am doing is I am actually sliding this clip because this clip in the time line and in the sequence is actually a shorter version of a full length clip. This tool gives me access to the entire clip and I can basically slide it to wherever I want but keep the same proportions in Final Cut Pro. So essentially it is like coming up to your browser, double clicking and bringing up your full clip and taking these in and out points and basically shifting them over to somewhere else in the clip but keeping the same distance. So instead of this clip playing this side shot of the building, I can then slide it and access another part of the full clip. Now it is showing a different part. Now the slide tool is the exact opposite. Goes in like that. That doesn't affect what is being shown on the clip, it just slides the clip. Now if you notice when I click this clip, the two clips to the side of it are selected too because this is affecting both of those clips as well. So instead of it being at this position, I click and slide it and I just basically moved but I have extended the clips or shortened the clips that are to the sides of it. So I mean it is just another great way to move your clips around to be more precise and just change things up a little bit. "