Operation Manual

Chapter 5: Video clips 95
3. Lock the audio track. Now drag the right-hand edge
of the same clip’s video back to the right by the
overlap interval.
4. Unlock the audio track.
The audio now cuts away to the second clip ahead
of the video.
Note: The procedures described above for performing
the L-cut and the J-cut are not the only possibilities.
With the J-cut, for example, another method would be
to trim the right-hand clip to the desired start point of
the video then, with the video track locked, drag the
audio portion leftwards to overlap the audio of the left-
hand clip.
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USING VIDEO EFFECTS
Most video editing consists of selecting, ordering and
trimming video clips, of connecting clips with
transition effects and combining them with other
materials such as music and still images.
Sometimes, though, you also need to modify the video
images themselves, manipulating them in some way to
achieve some desired effect. Studio’s Video effects tool
provides an extensive set of plug-in video effects that
can be applied either to video or still images. See page
101 for descriptions of the basic set of effects supplied
with Studio.
The Video effects tool is the seventh tool in the
Video toolbox. It has two main areas: at the left,
an effects list showing which effects are already