Chapter 5. Editing Video

In Lesson 4, you learned to organize your video in the Organizer and Project views. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to take that footage and shape it into a refined final version. You’ll apply these basic editing techniques:

• Insert, delete, and rearrange clips in the Sceneline and Timeline

• Trim and split clips

• Use Smart Trim mode to quickly remove lower-quality segments from your videos

Over the course of this lesson, you’ll piece together a short video showing some kids playing basketball. You’ll be working with video and audio clips provided on the DVD that accompanies this book.

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