Subtitles of the Movie

Now in this module we'll deal with sequences and we'll learn how to play through our sequence, so just some very simple tasks here. But the good news is that a lot of the things that you've learned already apply also to your sequences, really the big difference is that conceptually you're dealing now with finished products, your finished edited material rather then your raw unedited material which would appear either in the browser or if your watching it, it would appear in the view. So I've slapped together just a very simple sequence here and this is not even something that you want to put together yourself because it doesn't even make any sense as far as like trying to tell a story, it doesn't make any narrative sense whatsoever. It's just three shots that I've strung together here so that I could show you the finished sequence, even though the sequence again is nothing to brag about. But here it is, you can bring up a sequence by double clicking it, you can also drag and drop it over into the canvas window or even the viewer window if you want to, but most of the time you'll either, you'll probably work with the sequence by just giving it a double click and to show you this I'll create a new sequence, because I got this sequence 1 already up, I'll go to the file menu new and create a new sequence just like that. So now with the sequence 2, again how do we play it, well you can either hit return on the keyboard, give it a double click and now notice that it comes up in two places. It will come up in the timeline down here, so there we have a tab for sequence 2 and I can also work with sequence 1 at the same time. So I can build like two alternate versions of the scene if you're editing for a director or a producer, something like that and you'll also notice that this sequence appears in the canvas, so that's the other place that you'll see your finished sequence. So it'll show up in the timeline, it'll show up in the canvas as well. Now if you want to close a sequence you certainly don't have to have a sequence open just because it's a possibility in your project. So you can hold down the command key and close the tab and you stop looking at that sequence. Now again the sequence doesn't go away, it will still reside in your browser, whatever bin is currently holding that sequence, but again you can put it away and only work with one or two or whatever sequence you want to work with. Can I grab another project and another sequence from that project and work with it? Absolutely you can. So you can work with sequences multiple from one project, multiple from multiple projects or just one from a single project which is again what I'm doing here. Now you see similar things, now I'll point some of these things out in both the canvas and in the timeline. You see a play head and that play head looks exactly like what we saw in the viewer and when you click and drag it around you will start to slide through your finished sequence as you can see here and no that's not me in case you're wondering. So notice if I drag this play head around in the timeline it will also move this play head around in the canvas. The other controls are going to remain exactly the same, well not exactly the same but almost exactly the same. If I press the spacebar for example I start to play through the sequence. If I use the jog and shuttle, those also will advance me a clip or two at a time or a frame or two at a time if I use the jog, if I use the shuttle I can speed through varying degrees of speed through a sequence. When I let go it pauses the playback. Now what else do you have? Do you have the keyboard shortcuts J, K and L? Let's try it out. Let's do the J and sure enough as long as that canvas is selected I start to move backwards through, I can press the K to pause the playing and I can press the L to go forward through out the sequence. If I'm in the timeline I have some other options as well. Can I use J, K and L? Again I can, I can also use the two buttons right next to it or the two keyboard keys next to, I can use the semicolon and the colon and what will those do? If I use the semicolon it takes me back to a previous edit, if I use the apostrophe then I go forward and edit, so bingo, one more time, bingo, bingo and now I'm at the end. Remember when I was viewing a clip I saw the overlay of the film sprockets at the beginning and the very end, with a sequence you get this purple shaded bar when you reach the end of a sequence like this. If I'm going from edit to edit as I was here with the keyboard shortcuts I can also see these little overlays which means this frame is the very beginning of an edit and if I move back one frame again, K and J at the same time should move me back a frame, there's the very ending frame of the previous edit point that is in the sequence. So that's how you can navigate around, one last thing I want to show you very quickly is that you can also use the arrow keys effectively when you're navigating through a sequence in the canvas or the timeline. You can use the forward and backward keys to also go a frame at a time, it's a little bit hard to tell here, but there we go a frame at a time. If I use the up and down arrows it navigates me between edit points in the sequence. So now you have a pretty good understanding of how to get around both in your viewer when your looking at clips and in your finished edited material when your dealing with it in either the canvas or timeline.