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Trimming heads and tails

Trimming heads and tails - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Avid Media Composer: Narrative Scene Editing

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Trimming heads and tails

When editing a Montage it's often a good idea to lay a good foundation and then carve from there. That's what we've done in this sequence, here, Montage scene long. We've taken all the subclips that we've made from our giant 10 & 1/2 minute master clip, and laid everything in without any emphasis on any sort of flow. But we'll go ahead and take care of that now. Now the first thing that we want to do is map the commands Top and Tail to our keyboard. If I go to Settings and then Keyboard and then open up my Command palette, which is Command+3, or Ctrl+3 on a PC. Top and Tail are found in the Edit tab, right here, and I always map Top and Tail to E and R, because that's Mark In and Mark Out. But Mark In and Mark Out are also I and O, you don't need two of those. So, that's where I tend to put it, Top on E, and Tail on R. Now what are Top and Tail? Top, basically extracts material from the position indicator to the beginning of the clip. So if I were to perform a Top edit right now, I'll…

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