From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Advanced Trimming

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Dealing with connected clips while trimming in the primary storyline

Dealing with connected clips while trimming in the primary storyline - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Advanced Trimming

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Dealing with connected clips while trimming in the primary storyline

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- Dealing with connected clips when trimming in the primary storyline can be problematic. It's best to know all the different ways certain trimming actions can affect the clips above them. In this movie, we'll look at some real world trimming techniques and how we can avoid common pitfalls to the connected clip's position above. So I'm in the 1.6 keyword collection. I'm going to double click the 1.6 project to open it up, and I'm going to make sure I'm on my default selection tool. I was on the trim tool from the last exercise, so I'm going to hit A to do that. Got the arrow updating. Good to go. So what you might've noticed sometimes when trimming in the primary storyline, I'm referring to all the clips here on the lower track, we can call it the lower track, is that sometimes, when you do or perform trimming operations, it affects the clips above it, so one example that I can give you is, let's just say you decide to delete this content, if I hit delete, although this is kind of…

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