Editing Movies

Trim footage to create edited copies of movies or save selected frames as JPEG stills.

Option

Description

Choose start point

Create a copy from which the opening footage has been removed.

Choose end point

Create a copy from which the ending footage has been removed.

Save selected frame

Save a selected frame as a JPEG still.

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Trimming Movies

To create trimmed copies of movies:

1 Display a movie full frame.

Press the K button to display pictures full frame in the monitor and press 4 and 2 to scroll through pictures until the movie you wish to edit is displayed.

Kbutton

2Choose a starting or end point.

Play the movie back as described on page 49, pressing Jto start and resume playback

and 3 to pause. If you intend to trim the opening footage from the copy, pause on the first frame you wish to keep; if you will be

trimming the ending footage from the copy, pause on the last frame you wish to keep.

AStarting and Ending Frames

The starting frame is shown by a dicon, the final frame by a eicon.

3 Display the retouch menu.

Press the AE-L/AF-Lbutton to display the

retouch menu.

AE-L/AF-L button

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Nikon D3100 2 manual Editing Movies, Trimming Movies, Display a movie full frame, Choose a starting or end point