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Alright now you've got a clip marked and you're ready to start building or modifying a sequence and I'll show you how to do that right now. Let's set the in point or the place where the edit is going to go by using the tools here in the canvas and we'll like grab the play head and we'll drag it around or we can use the buttons here to go to the next edit points. So that would appear here and here and if I use the up and down arrows on the keyboard again the same things will happen, same thing with the semicolon and the colon. So let's say I'm going to put a shot right there and of course it doesn't matter you can put it right in the middle of a shot, it doesn't have to be an existing edit point but this will work for our purposes here. I'll also do this, I'll go to the window and just show you a different arrangement, I'm going to go to the two up because I'm going to focus on this now, taking a clip from here and using it over here into the canvas and maybe now I've got all my clips marked, I may have them in a certain kind order that I already have in my mind about where I'm going to use them, where I know which ones I'm looking for now. So I can bring one up by double clicking, dragging it up here, I have the clip marked and by the way if I take another clip and I work with it and then I go back to the previous clip, like that, notice that the in and out points are still marked. Final Cut is nice enough to remember the work we've done with the clip, so you can kind of pre-edit your sequence by planning what clips your going to use, start to work with multiple clips and then once you pull them up again you're decisions have already been made for you, they're saved for you from your last time. So here's what I'll do, I will take this from the viewer and with a mouse click, I'll just drag and drop it onto the canvas and notice here I've got what's called these edit overlays and the default is override. So if I don't go all the way to my edit overlays the edit that will occur will be an overwrite edit so it will write over what is already there. So do I have stuff that is already there? I do I have this shot here so if I do that it is going to place new material over that and it won't change the overall length of the sequence. Now I don't like that edit, I went to my friend, the undo is my friend, so command Z, I just undid the edit, again this is non destructive editing, I'm just pointing back to files that live on the hard drive that never in any of this process changed. The only thing that changed on the properties of the clips and the clips again are just references. So that's one option we have, we have the ability to drag and drop onto the canvas with an overwrite edit which is the default. I can also use a transition, my default transition; we'll talk about that later on. I can use different kinds of edits, I can insert and notice what's happening here is that I have this button which is F9 the insert, the overwrite and the replace, those three will light up if I hold and hover the mouse over those types of items. So here we go, dragging, I'm inserting and now I'm inserting the shot, this will lengthen the overall duration of the sequence because the shot now, notice that this didn't change, I still have an edit point right there and in my timeline, this is active right now, so anything I press on the keyboard will affect this. But if I go to my canvas or to my timeline and then I start navigating around you notice what happen, I've got this shot and then I've got this shot and then I've got the transition to that shot right there and again I've got these little overlays that say this is the last frame in this shot and now we're going into this shot. Again command Z will help me undo that behavior. Replace means just that and in this case here it acts very much like an overwrite if I replace, then what's happening is that I'm replacing that entire shot there with this shot. Now what's significant about that replace is that the timing will be exactly the same, if I overwrite, look what happens. It just overwrites the content there but it won't affect the overall length of that particular clip right there. If I do a replace then - what happened right there as I played through it? What happened was it lengthened the overall duration of the clip. So when I'm doing a replace it becomes probably more important to either where my in point or my out point is because it will start with in this case the in point and it just extended that take as long as necessary to do the overwrite action. So we've undone that yet once again, its very easy to do, fit to fill is also very important, superimposed can sometimes be important as well depending on some of the effects that you want to use. But for right now, for just getting kind of the basic vocabulary of your sequence, remember those three, the insert, the overwrite and the replace and you can drag and drop onto the canvas to build your sequence.