| Slipping a clip shifts both the In and Out points the same amount as you select slightly different content for that clip. It's like trimming both edit points the same amount in the same direction at the same time. You can only slip a clip if there is additional source material, or handles, on either side of the current edit points. If you used the entire clip length when you made the edit, there will be no additional frames to shift or slip the clip. Note In the following images, the darker frames represent the additional source material, or handles, available to use when slipping a clip.
 Working with the Slip Tool The Slip tool is the fifth tool in the Tool palette. Its shortcut key is S. 1. | Click the 6-Finished w/Music sequence tab in the Timeline and play it.
There are several clips in this sequence that could be improved by slipping the source selection slightly.
| 2. | Play the ab roller clip. This will be the first clip you adjust.
| | | 3. | Click the Slip tool in the Tool palette.
 | 4. | With the Slip tool, click and hold the ab roller clip in the Timeline.
 When you select the clip with the Slip tool, a brown outline appears past the area of the clip box. This outline indicates graphically how much original source material is available for you to draw from on either side while making your adjustment.
Tip Think of the clip space as the windshield of a car. There's more scenery on either side of the windshield even though your focus is on the windshield viewing area. If you want to use material that's before the current first frame of the clip, or to the left of the windshield, you drag it right, bringing it into view. | | | 5. | With the Slip tool, drag right until you see the man in the up position in the left frame of the Canvas's two-up display, then release the mouse.
As you drag, the two frames in the Canvas two-up display visually update your new In and Out points.
 | 6. | Play the skater glasses on clip. With the Slip tool, click and hold the clip.
 In the Canvas, the end-of-clip filmstrip symbol appears in the left frame to indicate that you are currently on the first frame of the clip. Therefore, you cannot slip to the right. If you drag all the way to the left, you will see the end-of-clip symbol on the right frame.
| | | 7. | Drag until you see the woman's hand start to come up to put on her glasses in the left Canvas frame, and in the right Canvas frame look for where she has lowered her hand, then release the mouse.
 As in any move, when you slip a clip in the Timeline, a duration box appears that shows the amount you have adjusted the clip forward or backward.
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Project Tasks Now that you see how the slip function works, practice making slipping adjustments to the following clips. During all these adjustments, the original clip durations remain the same. Don't forget to view the two image frames in the Canvas two-up display to locate a specific action in the clip. 1. | With the Slip tool selected, click the first clip, dumbbell cu, and drag right until just before the hand first appears in the left Canvas frame.
Note When snapping is on, it is sometimes difficult to drag just a few frames. Press N to turn snapping off or on as you slip the clip. Leave it on after you've made the adjustment. | 2. | Slip the mountain bikers clip left until you see the last biker leave the right Canvas frame.
| 3. | Slip the skater ecu clip right until the face is just out of sight in the left Canvas frame.
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You will slip other clips in the following exercises. Slipping by Numbers Another way to slip a clip is by typing in the number of frames or even seconds you want to slip the clip, as you did to move or trim a clip. 1. | Press A to select the default Selection tool. Select the sword twirl clip in the sequence and play it.
You will adjust or slip this clip so that the person lands on the strong beat of the music, about 20 frames earlier.
| 2. | Now select the Slip tool from the Tool palette, or press S.
| 3. | Type 20.
 | 4. | Press Return and play the new clip selection.
| 5. | With the Slip tool still selected, type additional frames backward or forward to slip the clip until the action is just right.
| 6. | Play the golfer hits ball clip at the end of the sequence. If you wanted the hitting of the ball to coincide with the strong beat of the music, how far would you slip this clip and in which direction?
The ball hit happens about one second before the strong accent in the music, so you would want to slip the ball hit forward one second.
| 7. | Use steps 15 as a guide to slip this clip one second forward.
Tip Instead of pressing A to switch to the default Selection tool just to select a clip, you can hold down the Shift key while the Slip tool is still active. This temporarily changes the Slip tool to the default Selection tool. After selecting a clip, release the Shift key, and the pointer changes back to the Slip tool. |
Slipping in the Viewer You can also use the Slip tool to adjust a clip in the Viewer, as you did with the Ripple tool in the previous lesson. First, of course, you must open the clip from the Timeline. 1. | Make sure you still have the Slip tool selected.
| 2. | In the current sequence, double-click the skater skates forward clip and hover the pointer over one of the edit points in the scrubber bar.
Several things happen. The clip opens in the Viewer, and the two rows of dots appear in the scrubber bar to indicate that this clip is already in the sequence. Also, the pointer changes to the resize pointer when you move it over an edit point.
 | | | 3. | In the Viewer scrubber bar, reposition the playhead between the edit points. Then drag one of the edit points left or right.
As you drag, both edit points move together because slipping maintains the original edit duration. Also, you now view the first frame of the adjusted clip in the Viewer and the last frame in the Canvas.
| 4. | Slip the clip to get an earlier portion of the woman skating.
Look at the clip in the Timeline. The thumbnail image for the clip has been updated to reflect the new In point. When you open clips from the Timeline into the Viewer, any changes you make are also made directly to the clip in the Timeline.
Tip For keyboard enthusiasts, you can slip an opened sequence clip in the Viewer another way. Select the default Selection tool, and hold down Shift as you drag an edit point. |
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