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Trim the start of a clip

Trim the start of a clip - Media Composer Tutorial

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

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Trim the start of a clip

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- [Instructor] There's one little note worth sharing with you as well here about trimming, is that I'm trimming the right edge of a clip, which I think makes really intuitive sense. It gets a little bit more confusing if I trim the left edge. If I trim using the Lift/Override mode and drag it to the right, you can see how far I can go with trimming here. Let's leave a gap that kind of makes sense. I'll just undo, but if I drag over on the timeline a little here, so you can see the end of the sequence, and I'm zoomed out just enough so that we're not having the auto zoom feature applied in the Timeline Window. If I now use the yellow mode to trim, you can see what's happening to the sequence. And you'll notice that in the composer window on the left, I'm getting the end of the clip before, that's the other side of the edit and on the right, I'm getting the first frame of the clip that I'm trimming. And again, there's a…

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