Operation Manual

90 Pinnacle Studio 9
the Split clip/scene button. Now move to the point
where the insertion should end and again split the
clip. Finally, delete the portion of video that will be
replaced by the insertion.
Because the audio track is still intact, having been
locked, the video to the right of the insertion point
does not move leftwards to fill the gap you have
made in the Timeline, for the video and audio
would then no longer be synchronized. If you were
to preview your video now, you would see a black
screen as the gap portion played back, but the
soundtrack would be normal.
3. Now all that remains is to place the clip you want to
insert. Drag the clip (whether from the Album or
elsewhere on the Timeline) into the hole in the
video track that you’ve just opened up.
If the inserted clip is too long for the space you
created it is automatically trimmed to fit the space.
You can adjust the trimming with the Clip
properties tool.
Insert editing on the original audio track
The converse insert-editing operation, in which a sound
clip is inserted into the original audio track over