Apple 7 manual Learning About the Trim Edit Window, Basic Editing

Learning About the Trim Edit Window

Once you’ve finalized or nearly finalized a sequence, you can begin the polishing process of trimming clips using the Trim Edit window.

To open the Trim Edit window, you choose Sequence > Trim Edit or double-click an edit point in a sequence with the Selection tool. The Trim Edit window appears, displaying the outgoing and incoming clips of the selected edit point or the next edit point.

Mark Out button

Outgoing clip’s Out point

Incoming clip’s In point

Mark In button

The Trim Edit window provides a special side-by-side view of outgoing and incoming clips and enables to you make fine adjustments to how one shot leads into another. An easy way to conceptualize the display of the Trim Edit window is to think of it as showing the edit point where two clips meet in a sequence.

Chapter 5    Basic Editing

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