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Playhead to the place from where you want to start viewing your story; hit the
spacebar. To stop it playing hit the spacebar again.
Immediately you will see that, although your newly imported clip begins in the
correct place, it doesn’t necessarily end just where it should. You need to stretch it
out or shrink it by Edge Dragging. (Remember, Edge Dragging cannot happen if you
have audio levels turned on. To switch audio levels off go VIEW > SHOW CLIP
VOLUME LEVELS.)
To shrink or stretch a selected clip, grab the Playhead and move it to the place on the
Timeline where you would like the clip to finish and a fresh picture to appear.
Now—gently—move your cursor towards the r-h end of the clip… and notice that, as
you cross the edge of it, the cursor turns into a bracket with arrows on it. You can
now click and Edge Drag the clip to stretch it out or shrink it (change its duration).
Notice that the moment you start the move, the Playhead leaps to the position of your
cursor, leaving a ghosted image of itself in the place at which you want the clip to
end. If you have the Snap feature turned on, the stretching/shrinking edge of the clip
will snap to the Playhead as though drawn there by a magnet.
Now go up to the Assets Pane to select your second picture. Notice in the Photo
Settings box that the Tortoise and the Hare slider is still set at “2:00” and so, unless
you change it, the new picture’s duration in the Timeline will be two seconds.
Now drag your second picture into the Timeline and make the necessary adjustments
as before.
Repeat this process until all your pictures are in the right place in the Timeline.
Some notes:
a) Undo Command: Remember that, if you make a mistake, you can always do a
EDIT > UNDO. Also, each subsequent UNDO undoes one-at-a-time every
step you have performed since the last time you saved your project.
b) Deleting Clips: If you insert the wrong picture into the Timeline or you change
your mind about which picture should be there, you can delete it (from the
Timeline that is but not, thankfully, from your Album in the Assets Pane) by
clicking on it to select it and then hitting the Backspace key. It disappears
(literally) in a puff of smoke! If, however, the unwanted picture forms part of
a sequence of clips in the Timeline with other picture clips either side of it,
then—before deleting—read on…
c) The Ripple Effect: When you have several picture clips in the Timeline there
will, no doubt, come a moment when want to delete some of them or change
your mind about the duration for which one or more of them plays. Before
taking any action study this next instruction carefully.
If, for example, you highlight a clip from the middle of the track with the
intention of shortening it and then move the cursor to its r-h end to begin a
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