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Top and tail clips for quick edits

Top and tail clips for quick edits - Media Composer Tutorial

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Top and tail clips for quick edits

- [Instructor] If you have already completed my Beginner Skill course, you'll have learned about basic trimming skills on the timeline in Media Composer and you'll have learned about using in and out marks you'll have learned about using the Smart tool to work with clip segments. But there's an additional feature in Media Composer that's not actually part of the interface until you add it by finding it in the Command palette. It's an incredibly useful shortcut and, I want to show you how to use it right here. I've created a new sequence called Top and Tail. In fact, the Top and Tail buttons is what we're going to use. I've got two versions here, one which is with the full length of all of the clips that we were just looking at in this Anesthesia project, and I'm actually going to work on the complete version, so you can start off with Top and Tail and compare your results with mine. What we have in this sequence is all of the clips. If I just drag through the contents, we can see…

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