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Using the overwrite and replace edit

Using the overwrite and replace edit - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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Using the overwrite and replace edit

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we want to learn how we can overwrite and replace clips inside of Final Cut Pro. Let's begin with the overwrite operation. And for this, I actually have a brand new project for you to work with. In order to open this, you're going to go to your chapter five event and you'll find that there's a Chapter 5_5 project. And if you double click it, it opens, containing more connected clips, as well as more interview clips. Let's see how overwrite works. If you come from another editing application, this might be a very familiar tool for you as it's one of the default edits. What it does is when you drag a clip into the timeline is it simply will overwrite whatever is underneath it. In order to see this, first of all, let's move our play head just above this shot here. This is just on the primary storyline, our sixth clip. And just to play this back full frame this time. Notice under the viewer,…

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