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Shortening the duration of layers

Shortening the duration of layers

We are now going to look at basic video editing, also referred to as Trimming. I have Imported a movie clip here, and we are going to make a Composition out of this. Be aware that it is 54 seconds long. That's what this triangle means here. Zero hours zero minutes, 54 seconds and zero frames. So, go ahead and drag this piece of footage to the New Composition icon, down here at the bottom of the Project panel. To add this to a new Composition, if you need to, go ahead and put your mouse over the Composition panel, the Viewer. And use the mouse to zoom out of this, so that you can see all of this if you need to. And this clip basically starts with some ocean waves, right in the middle. And a lot of times, when you cut to something, it's good to kind of have it in a neutral state. So, I might prefer to start this clip here, because it is kind of like a bird going on in a scene right up here in the front. But I like that the water is a little bit more neutral. And then as the scene…

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