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Trim with the Smart tool

Trim with the Smart tool - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 101 Fundamentals 1

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Trim with the Smart tool

- [Teacher] So far, we have been adding clips to sequences, removing clips and moving them around. But there's another very important part of non-linear editing, and that's changing the part of the clip that you have used in your current sequence. And just to illustrate this, I'm going to position my playhead here in the timeline window over this 7.33.2 clip and I'm going to hold the Alt key here on Windows. That's Option on macOS. And I'm going to click the Match Frame button in the Composer window. This is going to bring up this 7.33.2 clip so we can see the original contents. When I edited this clip into the sequence, I didn't use in or out points. I performed replace edit. But let's say that I did. In fact, let's find those points in the clip. I'm going to hold Control or Command on macOS and snap the playhead to the beginning of the clip. I'm going to not hold Alt or Option. I'm going to click the Match Frame…

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