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Using Auto Focus when entering Trim mode

Using Auto Focus when entering Trim mode - Media Composer Tutorial

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Using Auto Focus when entering Trim mode

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- [tutor] When working in the timeline window you're likely to be zooming in and out quite a bit. You're probably going to use the scale bar quite a lot or you could use the keyboard shortcuts by default those are control or command and the square bracket keys on your keyboard. So, you can zoom in and out and change the scale of your clips. You can also use the keyboard shortcut control or command forward slash to set the timeline window to display your entire sequence. And this will put you in that auto zoom mode. So you're always seeing the entire contents and we've got this button focus. If you click this button media composer zooms in enough or scales up the clips in the timeline window enough for you to see the beginning and end of one clip you can see that single blue line has split into two to indicate the duration of one frame. That's pretty useful when you're trimming because it allows you to make by eye quite…

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