Newbie doesn't understand Clip In/Out perhaps?

Nikkita_Doe

I'm trying to assemble several clips into a sequence.

Each clip overlaps the next for several seconds.

For example, I have the following clips:

Clip 1 "I detest newbies they"

Clip 2 "they are a pain in the rump."

These two clips have the word "they" as overlap.

I added both clips into my first sequence to get sequence 1, so now sequence 1 contains the overlap common to the end of clip 1 and the begining of clip 2, ie...

Sequence 1 "I detest newbies they they are a pain in the rump."

Next I set my Clip Out in Clip 1 to the point between "newbies" & "they" (Clip Out: 0:14:49.0) expecting Clip 1 to now play as:

Clip 1 "I detest newbies"

But it doesn't. It still plays as "I detest newbies they", ie it runs full length (with full length being 0:14:57.7).

I also expected that since I had set the Clip Out point in Clip 1 to eleiminate the overlapping word "they", that sequence 1 would now play back without the overlapping section, as in...

Sequence 1 "I detest newbies they are a pain in the rump."

But again, it doesn't. It still plays as:

"I detest newbies they they are a pain in the rump."

What I thought was, that using "Clip Out" is how you remove the overrun in a clip. In other words a clip of lenght 0:14:57.7 would start playing at the begining 0:00:00.0 (if Clip In is not set), it would then play to the Clip Out point 0:14:49.0, stop, and thereby allow the next clip in the sequence to start playing. Evidently this isn't the case, and my understanding of what Clip In/Out does is faulty.

Could somebody please set me straight on this? If what I described isn't what Clip In/Out is supposed to be used for, what IS it supposed to be used for?

If this IS what Clip In/Out is supposed to be used for, and what I've tried should have worked, then does anyone have suggestions as to what to try next?

borate

If two clips are on the same track and there's a redundency, perhaps the quickest way is simply to remove that duplication. In clip one, for example...

The clip already ends AFTER the word "they." Split it BEFORE the word. Then right-click on the now-isolated "they" fragment and "remove" it, pulling up the later clip. (Or, if a gap remains, right-click and "remove gap.")

You then should have two adjacent clips. Clip one ends before "they." Clip two starts at "they."

A previewed clip can be marked with an IN and an OUT, then the green arrow can be clicked to move that selection to the timeline.

Nikkita_Doe

Borate, that worked perfectly. The two clips are in fact on the same track. Using split in the sequence seems to actually be a more straight forward way of removing overlaps between clips like this. Seems I need to spend one heck of a lot more time getting familiar with the Help section. After you mentioned using split instead of Clip In/Out I looked up split in the Help section, and it described pretty much exactly what I was trying to do, and what you suggested. Seems that more reading and less "just try it and see what happens" would be productinve on my part.

Thanks for your patience. I really do apriciate it.

Nikki