General Video Editing

For more information, see the following topics:

Video Editing Caveats

General Editing Operations Not Applicable to Video Clips

Selecting and Editing Across Multiple Audio and Video Tracks

Selecting within Video Frame Boundaries

Using the Insert Silence Command to Insert Space in Video Tracks

(Pro Tools HD, Pro Tools with Complete Production Toolkit, and Pro Tools with an Avid Video Peripheral Only)

Most editing operations that are available for audio clips can also be applied to video clips. This section describes all available video editing operations. Unless noted, the procedure for each video editing operation is the same as its audio editing counterpart.

See the appropriate topic for detailed information on performing editing operations.

Basic Video Editing Features

Nondestructive editing

Display of clip names, clip times, and other data in playlists

Multiple video playlists

Multiple Undo

Video clips and video clip groups in Clip List

All Edit modes

All Edit Tools (except for Time Compression Expansion and Pencil tools)

Playing and Selecting Video Track Material

Selecting within video frame boundaries (see Selecting within Video Frame Boundaries)

Selecting and editing across multiple tracks (see Selecting and Editing Across Multiple Audio and Video Tracks)

Link or unlink track and Edit selections

Auto-scroll video tracks

Loop playback

Video Universe window (see Browsing Video in the Video Universe Window)

Working with Clips and Selections

Capture clips

Separate clips and Separate Grabber Tool

Clip overlap and underlap

All trimming commands except for TCE

Heal separated clips

Place, align, slide, shuffle, and spot clips

Nudging (quantized to frame boundaries)

Shift command (moving track material back or forward in time by a specified amount)

Quantize Clip to Grid (rounds to nearest video frame)

Replace Clip command

Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear commands

Special Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear commands

Repeat to fill selection

Editing across multiple tracks

Duplicate command

Repeat command

Clip groups (see Video Clip Groups)

Clip looping

Managing Clips

Insert space (see Using the Insert Silence Command to Insert Space in Video Tracks)

Compact Selected (nothing happens to the video, and at least one audio track must be selected)

All naming and displaying of clip commands