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Dual-roller trimming

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Dual-roller trimming

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- [Instructor] So far, I've been showing you trimming one end or the other end of a clip. But there is a third type of trim that you can perform, and it's called a dual-roller, or bi-directional, trim. Here, if I position my cursor right on the join between two clips, I get a double-headed trim icon. And if I click, you'll notice that I get two trim rollers not one. If I click to the left, I get a red roller at the top of the clip, click to the right, if I'm in the bottom of the clip, I get a yellow roller, but if I click right in the middle I get these two pink rollers. When you trim, with Media Composer, and in a moment we're going to look at using the dedicated Trim mode to make selected trims to particular clips, but when you trim in Media Composer, you always want to look out for the location of these trim rollers. Right now, we're performing a simple trim. We're at the beginning or end of one or two clips. Later, you might…

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