Time Saving Techniques / Using Fit to Fill
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Using the fit to fill edit is another quick way to accomplish exactly what you want to accomplish especially timing wise in your sequences. So you would use fit to fill, this is actually a way to manipulate time in the clip without manipulating time in the timeline and again you'll see what this what I mean by that as we go ahead and implement a fit to fill edit. Let's say you've got a length of a clip here that again is a bridge between one shot and another and you instead decide that you want this to be the shot in the viewer, the car parking. So again let's set our in point right there and let's look at what happens if we do this, if we do a replace edit. If we do a replace edit it's going to replace the audio and video, as you can see here I didn't have to replace the audio but it's the same length, so you might decide after previewing this that van's moving a little slow, it doesn't really look like its in much of a hurry. So instead set your in point, set your outpoint like that and now with the play head in the middle of this shot fit to fill. Now what's happened is that you've got a render bar but this should be able to play in real time and this increases the speed, again in the timeline it's the same sized clip, it's the same duration but the speed of it is going to squeeze more or less, you can certainly do this the opposite way as well. but in this case it's going to speed this clip up because that is more seconds wise then this is, so let's see what this looks like. Alright in fact it dropped some frames because it's trying to do a lot of processing here between capturing this movie that I'm recording and playing back the speeded up footage. So you also heard Alvin and the chipmunks there talking, don't forget when you do this that not only will the picture be sped up but so will the audio. So if that is a concern that's fine but you see reality shows use this technique all the time when they just want to get you from point A to point B and it's a guy getting out of a car and walking into his house or something like that, rather then you watching him walk for five or ten seconds, they squeeze you know a ten second a fifteen second walk into like two seconds worth of walking and the way that they do that, one of the ways that they could do that is with this fit to fill technique. And don't forget as they back this out here that you can use this in conjunction with an in and out point in your timeline as well. So if you want your timeline to have an in and an out point and I just did it in reverse, out and in and then up here in your viewer an in and out, now you can still fit to fill and now I've got a sequence that is going to look like this. Now remember let me just do this real quick, source, turn this off, let's fit to fill and now I'll have something that looks like this. And again it might drop frames, yeah and in fact it did, but you get the idea, is that we can use, we can specify not only a clip with that fit to fill but an in and out point on the timeline and still do that fit to fill operation.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple Final Cut Pro 6 |
| Author: | Brian Culp |
| SKU: | 33865 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-62-3 |
| Release Date: | 2008-03-31 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 103 lessons |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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