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Splicing Clips

Splicing refers to joining clips head-to-tail, thus allowing action to flow from one shot to the next. When you splice clips, you have options for:

• Fading to or from black.

• Dissolving from the first to second clip.

• Slipping the combined clip in time.

To Splice Slips

1.   Click Time > AppendClip to insert an AppendClip node into your script.
2.   Attach its 1 and 2 inputs to the clips you want to join. (The clip attached to input 1 precedes the one attached to input 2.)
3.   Attach a Viewer to this node, so you can see the effect of your changes.
4.   If necessary, expand the script length to accommodate the total length of the newly merged clip:

• Click Edit > Project Settings. The project settings properties panel appears.

• Enter frame range values that matches the total length.

5.   In the Fade In and Fade Out fields of the AppendClip properties panel, type the number of frames, if any, you want to fade to or from black.

For example, typing a 5 in the Fade In field would result in the following effect at the head of the merged clip.

(The inverse of this effect would occur at the tail of the merged clip were you type 5 in the Fade Out field.)

6.   In the Cross Dissolve field, type the number of frames, if any, of overlap you want between the first and second clip.

For example, leaving Cross Dissolve at the default of 0 creates a simple cut - the transition from the first to second clip is instantaneous. Typing in a 5 creates a time span of five frames in which the first clip’s gain ramps downward to zero, while the second’s ramps upward to 100%.
Dissolve.

 
Cut.
7.   In the First Frame field, type the number of frames, if any, by which you want to slip the clip. Enter a negative value to subtract frames from the head of the merged clip. Enter a positive value to add frames to the head of the clip.
8.   Slipping the merged clips may create empty black frames at its head or tail. As appropriate, select First frame or Last frame if you want these empty frames to appear as copies of the first or last frame.