Gestural Editing on the Desktop

Gestural editing is a technique in which you use your mouse or stylus to move clips among reels on the Desktop, and to perform cut, copy, insert, splice, and replace edits.

When you drag a source clip over a target clip, the cursor changes as the source clip moves over different areas of the target clip. The type of cursor indicates the type of edit that occurs when you drop the source clip on that spot.

All gestural splices, insert edits, and replace edits ripple the edit sequence; that is, they change the duration of the target clip unless you replace a clip with another clip of the same duration.

Cursor:	Appears when:	Use to:
Insert	The source clip is positioned between frames on the target clip.	Perform an insert edit.
Replace	The source clip is grabbed at any frame other than its first or last frame, and is positioned over a frame on the target clip.	Perform a replace edit. You cannot gesturally replace frames with a two-frame clip. However, you can perform this type of edit with a one-frame clip.
Replace ahead	The source clip is grabbed at its first frame and is positioned directly over a frame on the target clip.	Perform a replace edit starting at the frame under the cursor and moving in the direction of the arrow.
Replace back	The source clip is grabbed at its last frame and is positioned directly over a frame on the target clip.	Perform a replace edit starting at the frame under the cursor and moving in the direction of the arrow.

To perform a gestural insert or replace edit:

1. Drag the source clip over the frame in the target clip where you want to make the edit until you see the appropriate edit cursor.

   

2. Drop the source clip.

   The clip is updated with the edit. The source clip replaces the frames of the target clip