5. Editing Video

Lesson overview

In Lesson 4, you learned to organize your video in the Organizer and in the Project Assets panel. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to shape that footage into a cohesive video. You’ll apply these basic editing techniques:

Insert, delete, and rearrange clips in Quick view and Expert view

Trim and split clips in both views

Create a slide show with transitions

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 an airboat trip through a Louisiana bayou. You’ll work with video and audio clips provided for this book.

This lesson will take approximately two hours. Download the project files for this lesson ...

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