Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing

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 ...