260 The Cutting Edge: Advanced Editing Techniques
Replacing a Shot
Now that you’re getting the hang of all the different ways to add a clip to your
project, you can see just how versatile an editor iMovie really is. The one type
of edit you haven’t yet explored is replacing one shot with another.
iMovie has four different ways to replace a shot: Replace, Replace from Start,
Replace from End, and Replace at Playhead.
The basic replace means the clip in the project is simply exchanged with the
clip you drag from the Event Browser. If the new clip is shorter or longer, your
project gets shorter or longer to accommodate it.
The other replace methods always keep the duration of the clip being replaced.
If you drag a ten-second clip onto a five-second shot in the project, you’re only
going to get five seconds of your new shot in the project.
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12 13
12 13 14
11 12 13
10 11 12
10 11 12 13 14 15
Clip in the project
Clip in Event Browser
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Which five seconds you end up with depends on which edit type you choose:
Replace from Start will use the first five seconds of your selection.
Replace from End will use the last five seconds of your selection.
Replace at Playhead will place the beginning of your selection precisely
where you dropped the clip. (So, in the figure above, frame 12 of the new
clip is placed where frame 8 of the old clip was, because that’s where the
pointer is.)
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And remember, in these examples, the reason the clips are all five seconds
long is that the clip being replaced is five seconds long. If you were replacing a
three- or eighteen-second clip, the new clip would be exactly three or eighteen
seconds long.
NOTE
If your new clip isn’t long enough to fill the hole, iMovie will
warn you, and you can either cancel or just use as much footage as you
have available.
In the project you’re working on, you’ll use a simple replace to exchange a
repetitive shot with something more exciting.
1 In the Project Browser, look at the shot directly after the cutaway shot. It’s
almost exactly the same as the previous shot (the one you cut away from).
There’s no need to see two such similar shots back to back. In this case,
you’ll replace the second shot with a different shot.
2 In the Event Browser, find the shot of the single man in the big red skirt
twirling.
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