Cloning Fundamentals
When you clone moving footage, the result retains grainand other natural features that still images lack. Not only
can you clone pixels from a different region of the same
frame, you can clone from a different frame of a different
clip at a different point in time (Figure 7.17), as follows:
. Clone from the same frame: This works just as in Photoshop.
Choose a brush, Alt/Option-click on the area
of the frame to sample, and begin painting. Remember
that by default, Duration is set to Constant, so any
stroke created begins at the current frame and extends
through the rest of the composition.
. Clone from the same clip, at a different time: Look at
Clone Options for the offset value in frames. Note that
there is also an option to set spatial offset. To clone
from the exact same position at a different point in
time, set the Offset to 0, 0 and change the Source Time.
. Clone from a separate clip: The source from which
you’re cloning must be present in the current composition
(although it need not be visible and can even
be a guide layer). Simply open the layer to be used as
source, and go to the current time where you want to
begin; Source and Source Time Shift are listed in the
Paint panel and can also be edited there.
. Mix multiple clone sources without having to reselect
each one: There are fi ve Preset icons in the Paint panel;
these allow you to switch sources on the fl y and then
switch back to a previous source. Just click on a Preset
icon before selecting your clone source and that source
remains associated with that preset (including Aligned
and Lock Source Time settings).
That all seems straightforward enough; there are just a few
things to watch out for, as follows.
