Overlay and Instert Edit Workshop

This is an example of an Overlay edit. An Overly edit places a clip over another, taking out the clip it goes over. To do this, you drag the first clip and put it over the part of the second clip that you want to take out. I decided to overly the part the 2nd clip where I did because I thought it would be a good place to put the first clip instead. It gave more of a suspensful effect, and deleted some unecessary parts of the second clip.



This is an example of an Insert edit. An Insert edit places a clip in the second clip without deleting any part of the second clip. To do this, you drag the first selected clip and drag it where you want it to appear in the second clip. It goes in between two parts of the second clip.It does not delete any part of the second clip, like Overlay does. I decided to place the part of the first clip into the 2nd clip where I did because it added a break from the part of the video where the horse was running. Yet, none of the second clip was deleted.

The difference between an overlay and an insert edit is with overlay,you place your first clip over part of your second clip, and that part of the second clip is deleted. With insert, it allows you to place your first clip into your second, without deleting any part of you second clip.
You would use an overlay when you want to substitute part of your second clip with your first clip, while you’d use an insert edit when you want to just add the first clip to the second clip. In this case the insert edit works better because it allows you to add your first clip to your second clip, without deleting any of your second clip.