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In the previous video, we covered the trim technique known as slipping
where we adjusted the starting frame of a segment without actually affecting the edit.
This final trim technique we will look at is known as sliding.
This is when you take a segment and physically slide it along the sequence to change its actual position.
So for example, I want an action to come in later in the sequence.
Even though I am still in select mode,
I can hold down D and quickly slide the segment to a new location in the sequence.
Please note, that you see the frame under the positioner update in the viewer
as I slide the segment.
This is not the same as regular select and drag.
If I did the same without slide, the segment will be picked up
but you’ll have no visual feedback in the viewers.
So that is why sliding is great when adjusting the edit.
And for quick adjustments, that is fine.
However for more precise adjustments you can change the edit mode
from Select to Slide in the pull down menu or press the D keyboard shortcut.
You can now change the player mode to trim view by pull down menu or press OPTION+4.
Alternatively just double click on a segment and the slide view will appear.
In the centre two viewers you have the first and last frame of the currently selected segment.
The view on the left is the outgoing frame of the previous segment.
And the viewer on the right is the incoming frame of the next segment.
This allows you to see how the incoming and outgoing frames adjust around the current segment.
You can now slide the segment by clicking or dragging on it in the sequence.
You will notice that when sliding, the first and last frame of the current segment do not change.
I am just changing this segment’s starting and ending time in the sequence.
If you are more visually inclined, you can also click and drag in the viewers to drag the segment.
As a side node when sliding a segment, if ripple is on,
only the outgoing frame of the previous segment is affected.
Thus the sequence gets shorter.
If ripple is off than both the outgoing frame from the previous segment
and incoming frame from the next segment will update.
There are also buttons to slide the segment forward and back by 1 and 5 frames.
You can also use the comma and full stop keyboard shortcuts
to slide the segment by 1 frame forward or back.
For numerical sliding, if you have a keyboard with a number pad,
all you need to do is type +10, for example, and press enter.
The segment will slide down the sequence by 10 frames.
If you don't have a keyboard with a number pad, you need to hold SHIFT+OPTION
and double click on the segment to bring up the trim calculator.
Using the numeric keys on the keyboard, you can enter in your slide value of -5
and press enter to slide the segment 5 frames back in the sequence.
You can also press the play button to loop the segment repeatedly to review the edit.
During playback, you can also press the comma and full stop keyboard shortcuts
to slide the footage by 1 frame and Smoke to play the cut again with the new offset.
Just stop the play back to exit the player.
To move around to different segments, just double-click on them and the view will change accordingly.
To exit the trim view just switch back to the select mode by pressing the A keyboard shortcut.
Finally there are two other slide modes that you should be aware of.
In the edit mode pull-down menu you have Slide Cuts.
Not used very often but this slide mode is the inverse of slip.
Your source footage gets locked to the sequence and you slide the cuts.
So by starting the segment earlier in the sequence also starts the source media earlier in the sequence.
The last slide mode is SLIDE KEYFRAMES.
This mode works with all the timeline FX with the exception of ConnectFX.
For example, if you have created an effect with the axis timeline FX,
you can slide the keyframes to start the effect sooner or later
without having to go into the animation editor to make any changes.
They are small but useful sliding tools.
In the next video, you start learning about applying and working with transition FX in the sequence.