From the course: Media Composer 2019 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

Trimming with the keyboard - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 2019 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

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Trimming with the keyboard

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- [Instructor] As we explored earlier, you can use the A and S keys on your keyboard to jump between edits in your sequence but doing so will put you into the dual-roller trim mode. If I go into the file menu and into settings and into our keyboard settings right here, notice that we also have the option to press the P key to edit the A side, that's the left side of the edit. We can press the left bracket key to enter a dual-roller trim and the right bracket key to trim the right side of an edit. That combined with the; M , . and / keys allows you to jump really quickly through your edit making adjustments. So here, if I go back into my timeline and press the right square bracket key, I'm getting that right side of the edit or the left side of the edit using the P key. This is taking me into the red trim mode because the smart tool is on so both trim modes are available and it's the last trim mode that we used. But you can override this using the keyboard as well. If I hold the Shift key on my keyboard and press the D key, this will switch me to the ripple trim mode. And if I press the D key to de-select that option and press the F key, I switch back to the override mode. Now, why is this working? If I come out of trim mode and go back into the settings and into the keyboard and hold the Shift key down so we can see what this shortcut is, it's actually just the keyboard shortcuts for the override and ripple trim modes. Shift A and S for the segment modes, D and F for the trim modes. So if I go back to my timeline window, just making it active by clicking into it, I can press Shift and use the D key to enable and disable the red overwrite mode. And I can use the Shift key and the F key to enable and disable the yellow ripple mode or the extract splicing mode. These two keyboard shortcuts are independent. So if I press Shift + D now, I'm also enabling the red mode. If I press Shift + F, I'm removing the yellow mode altogether. So these two toggles combine to put you into the smart tool mode. Of course, if you have the smart tool enabled in this way, then when you go into a trim, for example, as I am here with the S key and then you choose a side of the trim as I am now with the P key, you're just going to jump into the last trim mode that you used. This combination of keyboard shortcuts to select modes, keyboard shortcuts to choose an edit and which side of the edit and keyboard shortcuts to incrementally add and remove frames when trimming, combine to give you a really fast approach to adjusting the timing of your edits.

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