92 LESSON 5
Creating Cuts-Only Videos
Adjusting clips in the Trim panel The Trim panel is a useful tool. Its value is its large preview monitors, precise
controls, and informative timecode displays. You will find that the editing tool
icon changes automatically depending on its position in the panel.
Rolling-edit and ripple-edit behaviors You apply the Ripple Edit tool to only one clip. It changes the length of your
project, because the rest of the project slides over to accommodate the change.
A rolling edit does not change the length of your project. It takes place at an edit
point between two clips, shortening one and lengthening the other. It edits two
adjacent clips at the same time.
1 Continue with the Lesson 05-07.prproj project.
2 Place the current-time indicator at the edit point between the last two clips in
Sequence 01.
3 Choose Window > Trim Monitor (or press the T keyboard shortcut).
The Trim Monitor opens.
4 Hover the pointer over the left preview screen until it turns into a left-facing
Ripple Edit pointer.
5 Trim the right edge of clip (the Out point) by dragging it left to about one
second (watch the Out Shift timecode below the center of the left preview
screen).
6 Use the same method to trim the right clip’s In point to the right to about
one second (use the In Shift timecode beneath the center of the right preview
screen).
7 Click the precision trimming tools—the –1 and +1 numbers—to trim or
lengthen the clips one frame at a time until you have the exact edit point
you want.
Trim Monitor editing tools Click in the left or right preview screen to make it active so that the precision trim-
ming tools apply to it. You can tell which preview screen is active by the thin blue
line beneath it.
8 Click the Play Edit button in the Trim Monitor to review your work.
