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Making basic edits

Making basic edits

In this movie, we're going to look at making the most basic of video edits and these edits that we're going to look at in this movie are actually the most common techniques that you will be using as you edit video, even when you get super pro and everything. Most of what we are going to be doing is we are going to be taking this clip here, this RideBy clip, and we are going to be trimming off some of this stuff in the beginning. We are also going to be trimming up the end a little bit as well. So what I am going to do is I am going to move my Current Time Indicator around this B-roll_ RideBy clip. We'll start at the beginning. As you can see, it takes a little while for the camera to kind of get situated and the bikers are way in the background and they stay there for a while, and this is very common with video clips because it's customary on a video shoot or a film shoot for the cameras to start rolling and then for the director to yell "action!" and start everything in motion…

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