Need to keep track of multiple takes or alternate clips?
You could stack multiple clips on the timeline, which is one easy method.
To keep your timeline looking cleaner, you could try the special tool for this purpose: Take Selector.
It’s fairly simple to use and allows you to quickly swap out different takes and even automatically ripple the timeline as you do.
In this video from Creative Video Tips, you’ll learn about:
- What it’s for
- Ways to audition takes without Take Selector
- Opening the take selector
- Adding additional takes from the viewer or media pool
- Slipping clips
- rippling the timeline
- Finalizing a take
Gedaly is the Founder and Lead Educator of DVResolve.com and is Blackmagic Design Certified Master Trainer. He’s edited commercials for major brands and has done color & VFX for independent films. He consults on post-production workflow and creating online education. Gedaly is the co-founder of Working.Actor, a former marketing manager for large brands, and creates original film projects with his production company Razee.
This is a solution to a problem I was having where I was starting to run out of room from stacking a bunch of longer clips to compare later, except for one big issue. When you open up the take selector, the rest of the timeline becomes deactivated and I can’t drag my existing stacked clips in. I can’t have them selected ahead of time either, because opening the take selector overwrites that selection and prevents you from selecting it in the source window.
Is there a way to work backwards from a timeline clip to overwrite the current in/out points of a particular source media with those used in a selected clip, and then drag that section of the source media into the take selector? I’m working with several very long source media files and it is simply not possible at this point to manually go back to the source of every clip option I have on my timeline and re-cut it.