Lesson 10. Fine-Tuning Edit Points

Lesson Files

Lesson 10 Project file

Media

Working Out folder, Vacation Fun folder, Surfing folder

Time

This lesson takes approximately 75 minutes to complete.

Goals

Trim two edit points at the same time

Slip In and Out points

Work with the Roll tool

Slide clip placement

Drag clip to a new location

Extend edit points

You now have different approaches under your belt for trimming a single edit point by adding and subtracting frames to a clip in the Timeline. But once you have the length of the sequence set, other editing tools will allow you to finesse or fine-tune your edit points without changing the overall length of the sequence. There are three tools that allow you to do this: the Slip, Roll, and Slide tools. ...

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