This document provides instructions for basic editing in Smoke III, including how to insert, overwrite, and replace clips. It explains the three main edit buttons (yellow, red, blue), and how the blue button offers additional edit options by clicking the white triangle. Users are guided through examples of inserting, overwriting, aligning, appending, prepending, ripple replacing, and replacing media. The document also covers zooming and scrolling in the timeline, as well as storyboard editing by arranging clips as thumbnails and dragging them directly into the timeline. It concludes with assigning homework to take a snapshot of the completed timeline.

1. Smoke III
Basic Editing

2. SmokeIII
Behind the Scenes in ‘Fix it in Post’

3. Let’s Get Started
 Load your 420
lesson project
 Switch to the
Timeline view if
necessary
 Change the view to
Source - Sequence

4. 3 Edit Buttons
 Yellow button
 Insert Edit
 Inserts the clip at the play
head position
 Ripples the timeline to the
right to make room for the
new clip inserted into the
timeline
 Shortcut F9
 Laptop fn & F9

5. A Little Catch-up if
Necessary
 If your timeline is
empty select the
Elysium or Pastel
music clip and click
the Insert button to
add it to the timeline

6. A Little Catch-up if
Necessary
 Move the play head
to the start of the
music clip.
 Select the fur subclip
and insert that clip to
the timeline

7. How About Another?
 Make sure the play
head is at the end of
the fur clip in the
timeline
 Select the Fishing clip
and set new In and Out
points to this clip
 Press F9 or click the
yellow button to insert
this clip to the timeline

8. Viewing the Timeline
 Horizontal Scroll Bar
 Dragging the bar up and
down changes the zoom
level of your timeline
 Dragging the bar left and
right allows you to see
other parts of your timeline
 Yellow line within the scroll
bar tells you where your
play head is in relation to
what you currently see

9. Have a Look Around
 Click on the scroll bar
and drag up to zoom
into your timeline.
 Click and drag left and
right to look at
different parts of your
timeline
 Note where the yellow
line is in relation to
your current view

10. Have a Look Around
 Press Shift Z to snap
your full to fit your
entire timeline into
the current view
 Need to see
everything quickly?
 Press Shift Z

11. 3 Edit Buttons
 Red button
 Overwrite edit
 This will overwrite any
content currently on the
timeline at the point of the
edit (where the play head
is located)
 Shortcut F10
 Laptop fn & F10

12. Perform an Overwrite
Edit
 In the timeline, move
the play head a second
or so before its current
Out point.
 Select the Going clip
and set an In and Out
point
 Click on the red edit
button or press F10 to
perform an overwrite
edit

13. Once Again
 In the timeline, leave the
play head at the Out
point of the Going clip.
 Select the Wings clip
and set an In point
 Set the out point 8
seconds after the In
point
 Click on the red edit
button or press F10 to
perform an overwrite
edit

14. Fix a Long Edit
 In the timeline, play
the sequence and
stop the play head
about 3 seconds
after Wings starts to
play
 We will cover the rest
of this clip with a new
one

15. Fix a Long Edit
 Select the Test Skills
clip and set an In
point at 12:45:29:00
before the diver
looks at the camera.
 Set an Out point at
12:45:33:15 after the
jellyfish passes him

16. Fix a Long Edit
 Press the red edit
button or press F10
to perform an
overwrite edit over
the Wings clip.
 Scrub back in your
sequence and play
your new
arrangement.

17. 3 Edit Buttons
 Blue button
 Replace edit (default)
 Selected clip in the
sequence is replaced with
the selected clip in the
media Library
 Media Library clip must
be at least as long as the
clip in the sequence

18. Replace a Clip
 In the timeline select
the test skills clip
 In the media library
select the began clip
 Click the replace edit
button
 Note the clip is now
began with the same
duration

19. More Than Meets the Eye
 The blue button has
several other types of
edits available
 Click on the white
triangle to see the other
edit functions

20. More Than Meets the Eye
 Aligned Edit
 Like the overwrite
edit, only backwards
 Uses the play head as
the Edit Out point
 Overwrites any clips
prior to the play head
position to the duration
set by the clip you edited

21. Try the Align Edit
 Position the play head
somewhere within the
began clip.
 Select the fishing clip
 Select the Align Edit
 Notice how it overwrites
clips before the play
head
 Undo the action
(Command Z)

22. More Than Meets the Eye
 Append Edit
 Places the selected clip
at the every end of the
sequence
 Doesn’t matter
whether the last clip is
video or audio
 Doesn’t matter where
the play head is

23. Try the Append Edit
 Position the play head
somewhere within the
began clip.
 Select the fishing clip
 Select the Append Edit
 Notice that it places the
clip after the very last
clip in the timeline
(audio)
 Undo the action
(Command Z)

24. More Than Meets the Eye
 Prepend Edit
 Places the selected clip
at the every start of the
sequence
 Doesn’t matter
whether the first clip is
video or audio
 Doesn’t matter where
the play head is

25. Try the Prepend Edit
 Position the play head
somewhere within the
began clip.
 Select the fishing clip
 Select the Prepend
Edit
 Notice that it places the
clip at the very start of
the timeline
 Undo the action
(Command Z)

26. More Than Meets the Eye
 Ripple Replace
 Replaces the selected
clip in the sequence with
a clip from the Media
Library
 Sequence adjusts to the
replacing clip’s duration
 If shorter, the timeline
clips ripple left
 If longer, the timeline
clips ripple right

27. Try the Ripple Replace
Edit
 Select the wings clip
 Select the fishing clip
in the Media Library
 Select Ripple Replace
 Notice that fishing is
now in the wings spot in
the sequence and the
clips to the right rippled
left to close the gap
 Undo the action
(Command Z)

28. More Than Meets the Eye
 Replace Media
 Replaces the selected clip
in the sequence with a clip
from the Media Library
 Duration of the replaced
clip does not change
 Replacing clip needs to
be at least as long as the
clip it will replace
 Will ignore out points
and use all media if
necessary

29. Try the Replace Media
Edit
 Select the wings clip
again
 Select the fishing clip
in the Media Library
 Select Media Replace
 Notice that fishing is
now in the wings spot in
the sequence, but the
duration of the clip did
not change
 Undo the action
(Command Z)

30. More Than Meets the Eye
 Fit to fill
 Replaces the selected
clip in the sequence with
a clip from the Media
Library
 Speed of the replacing
clip will adjust to fill the
space of the original clip
in the sequence
 Shorter = slows down
 Longer = speeds up

31. Try the Fit to Fill Edit
 In the viewer, press
Shift I to move the play
head to the In point
 Press Shift  3 times
to move the playhead
forward 1 second
 (10 frames X3)
 Set an Out point so the
total duration of this
clip is 1 second

32. Try the Fit to Fill Edit
 In the timeline select
the began clip
 This clip is nearly 4
seconds long
 Select the Fit to Fill
edit
 Play the sequence and
notice how the fishing
clip is now a slomo
 Press Command Z to
undo

33. Finish Off the Sequence
 Click in the empty
space to the right of
the last clip above
the audio
 Creates a gap clip @2
½ seconds long for
now
 Select the sunset
quest clip in the
Media Library

34. Finish Off the Sequence
 Press Shift I to move
the play head to the
beginning of the clip
 Press I to set an In
point
 Click on the Duration
window and type 5 0
0 and press return to
set a duration of 5
seconds

35. Finish Off the Sequence
 Press Shift I to move
the play head to the
beginning of the clip
 Press I to set an In
point
 Click on the Duration
window and type 5 0
0 and press return to
set a duration of 5
seconds

36. Storyboard Editing
 Arrange your
thumbnailed clips in
the order you need
them
 Thumbnail with the
red outline is the
sequence

37. Prepping for Storyboard
Editing
 Change the view
from Source-
Sequence to
Thumbnails

38. Storyboard Editing
 Thumbnail view is
based on what is
selected in the Media
Library
 Where the Eye is at is
what you see on the
right

39. Prepping for Storyboard
Editing
 In the Media Library
make sure the eye is
next to your Video
folder
 Click on other
folders to change the
thumbnail view to
other folders, but
return the view to the
Video folder

40. Organize your Clips
 Click on the
Thumbnails Task
menu
 Choose Arrange >
Clean Up All
 Clips arranged five
across, but not all the
clips can be seen
 To see all the clips
within a folder choose
Fit All

41. Getting Around in
Thumbnail View
 All the same player
controls and markers
still work in Thumbnail
view
 Put your cursor on the
clip you are interested in
marking & use keyboard
shortcuts to navigate
and mark the clip

42. Getting Around in
Thumbnail View
 All the markers looks
the same, only much
smaller
 In point
 Play head
 Marker
 Out point

43. Navigate a Thumb
 Simply place your
cursor on the journey
clip
 Press L to play the clip
 The clip becomes
selected and begins
playing from its current
play head position
 Try J, K, L, Space bar,
, 
 Put the cursor in the
lower third and drag
back and forth

44. Mark a Thumb
 Put the cursor in the
lower third of the
thumbnail and scrub
to 2:45:00 and mark
an In point
 Scrub to 2:48:00 and
mark an Out point

45. Create a New Sequence
 Right click the
Sequence folder in
the Media Library
and select New >
Sequence
 Name the new
sequence
Storyboard, then
select Create in the
bottom right

46. Do a Storyboard Edit
 Holding the Command key, click on
Journey, then 3 or 4 other clips in the media
browser that have In and Out points
 The order you select them will be the order of clips in
the timeline

47. Do a Storyboard Edit
 While the clips are selected, drag the clips to
the timeline over the video track in the
timeline

48. Do a Storyboard Edit
 In the bottom right corner, click on Timeline
Layout Combo box
 It should be set to home (Shift Z) and will zoom out to
show you the complete sequence of all your clips

49. Do a Storyboard Edit
 Play your
storyboard
sequence
 Your viewer in
thumbnail view is
the clip with the
red outline in the
media browser

50. Homework Assignment:
 Take a snapshot
of your timeline
 Should have video
clips over the entire
music track
 Save the image to
the Smoke 3
Dropbox

51. Smoke III
Basic Editing