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You can append more than one clip at a time by selecting the clips first in the Event Browser. Appending a
group of selected clips arranges them on the Timeline in the order in which they were selected, so with this in
mind, Command-click the clips in the chronological order that they are to appear on-screen.
For the exercises in this topic, set the Event Browser to List view and click the Name field to list the clips in as-
cending order.
Let's create a first assembly for Bump in the Night by appending the four master clips from the sequence onto
the Timeline:
1.
Select the Bump in the Night Collection in the Event Library and make sure the Event Browser's filter is
set to show All Clips.
2.
Open the Bump in the Night Project that you created earlier in the chapter by double-clicking on it in the
Project Library.
3.
Using any of the methods outlined earlier, append Scene 8 Slate 54 Take 3 and
S
cene 8 Slate 57 Take 2 to
the Primary Storyline.
4.
Select Scene 9 Slate 60 Take 3 in the Event Browser, click on its green horizontal line to select the Favor-
ite area that you assigned in Chapter 4, and append this to the Primary Storyline.
5.
Append Scene 9 Slate 61 Take 2 to the Primary Storyline.
Because no selected area was specified for three of the clips, their entire media is placed into the Primary St-
oryline (see Figure 5.8). If you play back the sequence, you'll notice that the actress performs the same action
twice in the first two shots. She bolts up in bed—first in an overhead wide shot and then again in the second
tighter angle. This is not a problem, because you'll be using Final Cut Pro's trimming tools to tighten up this
section in Chapter 6.
Figure 5.8
Clips appended to the Primary Storyline.
Performing overwrite edits
An overwrite edit is used to replace existing media on a Storyline with media from another source. When per-
forming an overwrite edit, the edit occurs at the skimmer position if skimming is enabled and at the playhead
position if skimming is turned off. The length of the overwritten section is dependent on the duration of the clip
or selection chosen in the Event Browser, but you also can specify an area to overwrite on the Storyline itself by
using the Range tool (we tell you about the Range tool in Chapter 6). You can perform an overwrite edit any-
where on a Storyline, including across the intersection between two clips. Ordinarily, the first frame of the new
