Subtitles of the Movie

Alright in this module we'll pick up where we left off in the last module and if you want to you can kind of think of these two modules as one big module, just really break them into two different ones for purposes of time. But I have as you can see here in this tracks panel is the formal name for it, you have two video tracks, we have four audio tracks here. We learned how to add and delete tracks, if we want to work with some more space by the way we can always move the mouse pointer between tracks and we can expand the amount of space, we can contract the amount of space for a given track like that or like that. If we modify all this stuff we move all this stuff around we can also reset things by holding down the control button and clicking and then hitting the reset panel shortcut button. So that will take things back to where they should be as far as the defaults which is video track, source destination as video one, source destination for audio track is audio tracks one and two. If I want to, if I've resized this stuff all over the place and I want to quickly get back to square one I use this down here which is toggle, timeline track height which you know probably better as shift and T so you can click that again and take things back to where they were. You can also finally hold down the shift button and if you hold down the shift button as you do your dragging around what should happen is should reset the height of all tracks at once and again you can toggle this back down to where you want to by using the buttons down here. So we've got multiple tracks, we know how to manipulate that panel and that again becomes important because if you can't see and work with the things you want to work with in Final Cut, because these windows can get alittle jumbled and crowded. If we can't manipulate the interface the program becomes much harder to work with. If we know what we're doing with the interface then it really frees us up to quickly make edits and work on the creative part of editing and not the mechanical part of it. So here we are, one of the creative parts of editing is that you get to work with cutaways and a cutaway will be used to possibly transition between this shot and this shot, maybe that these two things, audio wise tell the story I want to tell but that is a jump cut or in otherwise awkward edit. But if I have some just piece of video footage to bridge that gap right there then I tell the story that I want to tell. That's the use of a cutaway. So I've got my cutaway marked here in the viewer, I'm going to leave my timeline as it is, little bit bigger then what you see in the standard view. So I'll go to the viewer and I'll put this into my timeline using the canvas edit here and let's just reset this a bit here. Let's go back to timelines, move this back a little bit using keyboard and now I'm going to set the destination and source, the source is video one, I'm going to set the destination as video track number 2. Am I going to use the audio here? Well I may I may not. Let's not do this and so if I just want to use the picture and not the audio I don't care what the audio is here, I can deselect this and again I'll show you the difference. Here is what the audio selected, what will happen with an overwrite edit. The edit goes right there but notice that the audio was pasted into the sequence as well. Let's undo this, let's now deselect and see what happens with that same operation. Now just the picture goes and that may be indeed why and how you would implement a cutaway into your sequence and I again recommend that you put your cutaways, say again the purpose of this is to disguise this cut here. Well maybe we end up using this somewhere else in the sequence and how do we do that, well we can select it and then scootch it along the timeline with either the period by a frame or two or the comma for back a frame or two or I can just simply drag and drop the thing wherever I want it to go. So there's lots of ways you can move that cutaway. But let's say I want to move this down my sequence. Now at least I've got some video information and I don't have a big gap in my sequence which I would have otherwise. So again if I would have inserted this as an overwrite edit right there which I can do that for the fact as you can see right there and then I decide later on that you know what this works better as a cutaway between those two shots right there. Again it takes me five seconds to do that but now I've got a mistake that I've got to fix or not a mistake but you've got a gap here that you've got to put something in because generally people don't like looking at a black screen while there's dialog or other information that's being conveyed. So, I generally recommend, once again this will help speed you up later on down the road that when you put your cutaways into your rough edit that you do so using a separate video track. Again whether or not we use the audio for those cutaways, you can use that audio, you can use them on a different track or if you're sure that this has no interesting audio information that you'll ever use in your sequence, just slap the video in by using that technique right there.