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Review basic editing tools

Review basic editing tools - Media Composer Tutorial

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Review basic editing tools

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- [Instructor] For Chapter 5 I've created a new Chapter 5 folder in our Chapters on the desktop. And in that chapter you'll find a new copy of the Anesthesia project we're using. I'm going to double-click to open this up. I'd like to take a moment before we get into some of our more advanced timeline workflows to just check-in on some quick shortcuts and basic edit tools that you should be familiar with. I've created a new sequence here called Basic edit tools and I'm going to work on the complete version of this so if you are working with these media files you can follow along and compare. So first of all remember that you can turn on and off the Smart Tool using a keyboard shortcut and that keyboard shortcut is the Shift and the Tab key it's the same on Mac OS and Windows. This large bracket around the edge of the Smart Tool performs the same function and actually while I say that it turns them all off and on it's actually a little more nuanced than that. If I turn off my…

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