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What use are in/out points for sequences?
Very NEWbie here. I have two 15-minute clips from two cameras that rolled simultaneously during a choir sing. These actually contained multiple “takes”.
I followed instructions in “Classroom” and User’s Guide” and successfully made a multicamera sequence, synchronized by a handclap and edited to A or B roll appropriately. However, I only wanted the middle one-third or so, of these clips, for one particular take of a four-verse hymn (BTW I had only one good synch point, that handclap, at the beginning). So I set the multicam sequence’s In and Out points for the middle section I wanted to actually use.
But when I drag this sequence into a different bigger sequence on the timeline, the entire 15-minutes is there, not just the part I want (as marked by in/out). This behavior is different from dragging clips onto the timeline, where the only stuff that “ends up there” is the part between in and out.
Sure, I can instead trim the multicam sequence to my in/out points. But then I can’t easily go back and change my mind, like for instance use an entirely different “take” from the clips. I thought that was the main purpose of in/out points, namely that you can go back and fiddle with them, while preserving the entire clip for easy viewing in the source monitor.
Seems I have to “hard-to-redo-or-fiddle-with” trim, where I really want to mark in/out. Or else I’m misunderstanding something fundamental. Why don’t in/out points work the same way for sequences as for clips, namely that they constrain what drags (and hence, renders in the project) to the timeline?
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Just to clarify, I may have misused the term “trim”, near the end. What I mean to say is that one workaround I can think of is to REMOVE (not trim) frames, by lift or extract I suppose, before and after my desired in and out points. And the disadvantage of this method is the permanence of such removal (as compared with merely setting in/out points like you do for a clip).
Thanks for bearing with me, I was accidentally using the layman’s meaning for “trim”, i.e. “somehow cut away or get rid away”. But Premiere’s meaning for “trim” seems to be more like “hide”.
BTW I do understand that even the above removal still isn’t quite an actual physical deletion of media. My point is that frames once removed from a multicam sequence aren’t easily returned, with switched edits and synchronization restored.
All statements of fact are my humble impression based on just starting out. Please correct any errors of course. 🙂
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I have similar question — trying to add multiple clips to timeline from the same source using in/out pts– there are multilpe points in the source I want to add to the final
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