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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing
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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing

by Iain Anderson
October 2020
Beginner to intermediate
796 pages
17h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 8: Neaten the Edges: Trimming Techniques

"With FCP X, I was able to establish my own filmmaking and editing business in remote outback Queensland, to create and share the unique stories of the people of the bush."

— Kirstie Davison, MaRiKi Media

Kirstie is a videographer and editor based in Blackall, Queensland, Australia. (www.marikimedia.com)

Following the book so far, you've been moving clips around in time, chopping them up, selecting and deleting, and hopefully getting a bit more confident. Probably the single most common operation you've done so far is a basic trim on a single edit point. Simple one-point trimming is certainly a useful operation, and you can make a clip longer or shorter with the keyboard or the mouse. But a one-point ...

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