Swapping Segments

You can swap a segment within a sequence with a source clip, directly from the Desktop, while preserving any Timeline FX applied to the original segment. When you swap segments, you select a frame in the target clip and a frame in the source clip. When the swap operation is performed, the selected frame from the source clip takes the place of the selected frame in the target segment and the remaining frames are aligned relative to this position.

To swap segments:

1. In the target clip, select a frame in the segment to be swapped.
Note: If you are in collapsed view, the soft positioner at the bottom of the clip determines the selected frame. If you are in storyboard view, the first frame of the segment is selected by default.
2. From the contextual menu, select Swap Segment.
   Note: If you are swapping a shot in a dissolve, from the contextual menu, select Swap Segment > Incoming or Swap Segment > Outgoing to determine whether you are swapping the outgoing or incoming segment.
3. Click a frame in the source clip.

The selected segment in the target clip is replaced by the source clip and the selected frame from the source clip takes the place of the selected frame in the target segment and the remaining frames are aligned relative to this position. The selected frames are aligned in the swap operation.

Note: If there are not enough frames before or after the align frame in the source clip to fit before or after the align frame in the selected shot an error message appears in the message bar.

Two clips on the Desktop prior to the Swap Segment operation. In this example, the operation will swap the green segment for the blue clip while aligning frame 8 from the green clip to frame 11 from the blue clip.

After the Swap Segment operation, the green segment has been swapped with the blue clip, while aligning frame 8 from the green clip and frame 11 from the blue clip.