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Three-Point Editing From the Media Pool
You can also execute three-point edits directly from the Media Pool, with no need to use the Source Viewer.
Example: Assembling Clips Into the Timeline From the Media Pool
If you want, you can also edit clips directly into the Timeline from the Media Pool using a variety of commands. This can be a fast way of appending clips to the end of the Timeline (although you can also perform insert edits this way).
1 If necessary, set In and Out points for each of the clips you want to edit into the Timeline using either the Media pool thumbnails (in Thumbnail view), the Media Pool Filmstrip Viewer
(in List view), or by opening each one into the Source Viewer. For each method, press I to set an In point, and O to set an Out point.
2 Change the sort order of the Media Pool’s browser area to put the clips into the order in which you want them to appear. In Thumbnail view you can use the Sort Order menu, but in List view you can click the header of any metadata column to sort by that column’s data.
3 Position the playhead to where you want to edit the clips.
4 Click, drag, use the Command-Option and Command-Shift Up and Down Arrow Key shortcuts, or use the Option-1–8 and Command-Option-1–8 key shortcuts to assign the video and audio destination controls to the tracks you want to edit the video and audio of the incoming clip(s) to.
Click any destination control itself to disable it if you want to edit clips into the Timeline as audio or video only.
5 Select one or more clips you want to edit. Insert, overwrite, place on top, ripple overwrite, and append at end edits are all capable of editing multiple clips at once, while replace and fit to fill edits can only edit one clip at a time, and will only edit the first of multiple selected clips into the Timeline.
6 To perform the edit, do one of the following:
— Drag the selected clips to the Timeline Viewer and drop them on an editing overlay to execute that edit type.
— Right-click one or more selected clips in the Media Pool, and choose “Insert Selected Clips to Timeline,” or “Append Selected Clips to Timeline.”
The selected clip(s) are edited into the Timeline.