[Patricia Magyar]

Thanks so much for replying. Yeah…here’s the issue though. Let us say, for example, that where I am inserting this new block the end of the new adjacent ‘block’ has a longer video track than audio and the one I am pasting has audio that starts before video, (I hope this makes it possible to visualize) when I SHIFT V..the paste pushes everything together so there are no gaps and they join flush on both ends of the pasted clip (assuming this is an insert and the right side of the insert is also not even (and the way I edited I wanted the gaps there to fill in later) and then all is awry. I don’t want to have to redo the whole project but clearly I am missing something.

[Patricia Magyar]

Thanks for taking time to reply. Plz forgive if I misunderstood your questions (spell newbie with a capital ‘N’) Size of video? 10 minutes. It is a sample documentary for a documentary class but it is not a straightforward but, rather an attempt at a creative way of addressing the topic. So…on the timeline there are segments (probably incorrect term) that are clips of films that I took. But interspersed there are still images and I was trying to work with some of them. I am finding out that I have a GREAT deal to learn about keyframing. I was hoping to do some work with these images. In this instance, I have a picture of a phone booth. I did crop and save it in Preview…..is that what you meant when you asked if I sized the image? I’d gotten the image from Google Images (no copyright issue) For the point I wanted to make I wanted to take 1 image of these images and work it some way creatively into a frame that has 24-27 of them. I considered taking 1, then 2, 3, 4 and then jumping to 27. This only because I was able to work with the images in WORD and accomplish that. I would be perfectly happy to take the single booth have it twirl in black space and end up with the 24-27 (if having the option of choosing matters).

Before I received your kind response, I tried to create the effect using a video filter (tiling) but that was a failure.

If I am making this confusing, feel free to let me know.

While I have you “on the line” so to speak…let me run this by you if you would. I was searching for a way to make the one booth spin. (It was a still image) I searched this site and found that someone had asked the same question. The person who replied said to start at the beginning and set a keyframe at “0” and then go to the end and put another keyframe in, this time at 360. They said that it would be crude but would produce the effect. That would have been okay for me. However, when I did that and put the 2nd keyframe, the zero keyframe I put in changed to “360” too. I tried several things…such as making different time increments of the same image and setting the key frame at the beginning of the first one and the end of the last one. That didn’t work either. What the heck am I doing wrong? I love working with editing…I hate being so lost!

Thanks so much 🙂

[Patricia Magyar]

I really appreciate the explanation 🙂 I think I don’t fully understand why that 5 seconds is required and what it accomplishes or avoids when capturing but at least I know what to do and watch for during the shoot.
Thanks so much.