When marking an In and Out point in the Program Monitor you are actually determining where you want edits to fall when you edit from the Source Monitor using the keyboard shortcuts or editing commands sending clips down into the sequence. So let's go ahead and see what that work-flow looks like. If I go ahead and scrub through the sequence, let's find a cut point to edit at. I am going to press the Page Down button to access the cut point between these first two clips. I am going to go ahead at that cut point and press the I key, what the I key did is add an In point at the current edit line position. I can zoom in to the Program Monitor the same way I could zoom in the Source Monitor to the Time Ruler, and now I can see where my In point is.
Now if look at these two shots, what we have is we have a shot of a guy walking up to a car door, then we have another shot of him inside the car sitting down. I have another shot looking through this Window of him actually sitting down in the car again, so I want to cut to that shot in between that moment.
In order to cut to that shot in that moment I assigned an In point where I want to come into the shot, and that's actually right here. If I open up the shot that I want to come in, here we have this shot here, scrub to let's see about 9 seconds, so everyone can just click in the blue hot text area for time-code, type-in 0900, mark an In point by pressing I, and then go ahead and scrub and may be to about 14:11 or 14:00 is fine, then press O to mark an Out point. What you have now is an In point and Out point selected for your source clip.
In your Program Monitor you have already marked where you want your edit to occur, all you need to do is press the Insert Edit button in the Source Monitor and that inserts the edit at the In point that you specified. Notice when you inserted the edit it pushed the media down sequence to the right to make room for the clip that you just added. Now if we go ahead Edit > Preferences > General, let's change Preroll to 8 seconds and Postroll let's say to 8 seconds and then click OK. If we go ahead and hold the Alt key down and click Play around it will rewind 8 seconds, it will play that moment, and then when it finishes playing that moment, I am not pressing any keys at this point, its playback will stop.
Notice when playback stops the edit line goes back exactly to the point that it was positioned before you pressed Play around edit. The edit that we just performed is called a 3-point edit. You had one In point on your source clip, you had two in Out point on your source clip and you had three in point in your Program Monitor for your sequence. You can do the exact same edit without having an In point, edits are just executed at whatever the edit line position is if there is no In point in the sequence or if there is an In point that's exactly where the edit will occur. So if there is an In point specified, an In point assigned in your Program Monitor or in your Timeline Windows will override the position of your edit line.
For the most part unless I am doing a lot of 3-point edits, I don't really use the In and Out marker points in the Program Monitor. I like to drag-and-drop my edits, I like to move the edit line to certain points and snap my edits to the edit line just by dragging-and-dropping. Sometimes if I have to be very precise I am going to use the Program Monitor, but primarily the keyboard shortcuts associated with the In and Out points in the Program Monitor to execute edits exactly where I want.
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