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(female voiceover). The trimming of a
clip can be done either in the movie project
or below in the event.
Let me show you both methods.
If you have a clip up in your project that you'd like to trim
the ends, put in yellow the frames that you'd like to trim.
Okay, for this example, at the very beginning of this clip we
start filming, showing a dead petunia flower.
So I would like to trim the frames off
that have that dead petunia.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to cover my mouse, get my
playhead at the very beginning of the clip, click and
hold my left mouse, and drag.
While I'm dragging, I'm watching the viewer and as soon
as the petunia is out of view, I can let go.
What I've done is I've put in yellow the frames
of the clips that I'd like to delete.
So I hit the delete key above the back slash and they're gone.
Now what happened is--if you look down here in the event,
here's the original source clip--all that happened what its
indicating to you now that you're only using the frames
that have an orange bar at the bottom of them.
As you can see here at the beginning it took the orange bar
away because those are the frames that
I'm not using in my project.
Now if I want to trim the clip down in the event,
let me show you how that works.
Same way, this clip right here goes on just a little too long,
so I want to trim from the back end before
I take it up to my project.
So I'll put my playhead right here at the end of this clip and
I'll click and I'll drag and I'll watch the viewer,
it's playing backwards.
But as soon as this female gets back into the building, this is
where I want to stop, right here.
Again, I've put in yellow the frames that I want to delete.
Once I have that in yellow, I hit the delete key above the
back slash or I can hit the rejected button right here,
and it takes them away.
A couple things that happened, number one, down here
you see this 1-second of a clip.
This is still here because when I had my mouse at the very end
of the clip, I didn't have it all the way at the very end, I
left this much just hanging.
So what I need to do is I just need to select this and again,
either select rejected or hit the delete
key above your back slash.
Alright, so now it's all gone.
Now you'll notice when I deleted clips--deleted frames excuse
me--from the project, all it did was indicate that I wasn't using
those frames down in the event.
When you delete frames from the event, where it sends them is
the rejected bin.
So if you go down here to "Show," where it says
"favorites and unmarked," we go to rejected.
Now you'll see this first portion--now you'll see the
latter portion that I deleted of that clip
that was down in the event.
So that's the difference between the two ways of trimming clips.
So that's the difference between trimming a clip in a project
verses trimming a clip in an event.
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