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Transitions:
Transitions are an affectation of an edit point. A transition can be anything from a dissolve between the two clips to an explosion of the two clips. The key to working with transitions is to make sure you have sufficient handles on both your outgoing and incoming clips. Handles are additional footage from the master clip either beyond the edit of the outgoing clip or before the edit of the incoming clip. So, if you want to have a one second cross dissolve between two clips, you must have half a second of handles on your outgoing and incoming clips.

The development of the edit
• The content cut
• The rough cut
• The picture lock
• The online edit

The Content Cut

Editing basics

3 point editing:
3 point editing is the notion that any edit is created from 3 points.
The out point of your outgoing clip (on the left side)
The in point of your incoming clip (on the right side)
The insertion point for the new clip

Types of edits:
Rolling: a rolling edit will modify BOTH the out point of your outgoing clip AND the in point of your incoming clip. This lengthens one clip and shortens the other by the same amount with no change in the overall length of your program.

Today I'm cutting some commercials for an eastside auto dealership. Later I'll either be working on a hot tub company commercial or cutting together a new "look" for the aforementioned auto dealer. I'm really hoping to get everything done as early as possible today so I can play around with the site some more and dig into the video "mash up" module I installed. I have big plans for it.

So, I'm new to the whole Drupal thing. I've used Wordpress pretty extensively, but have decided to go with Drupal for a variety of reasons I'll elaborate upon later.