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Trimming with the keyboard

Trimming with the keyboard - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

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Trimming with the keyboard

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- [Narrator] 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 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 dual-roller trim and the right bracket key to trim the right side of an edit. That combined with the M comma period and forward slash 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…

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