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

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Removing sections of a clip or clips with Range Selection

Removing sections of a clip or clips with Range Selection - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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

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Removing sections of a clip or clips with Range Selection

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- Using the range selection tool can be a great way to remove content from your timeline and even trim the head and tail of a clip simultaneously. Let's see how we can use range selection and how it can help us trim and remove unwanted content from our Final Cut Pro X projects. So I'm in my 1.4 keyword collection and I've double-clicked my 1.4 project to open it up and I want to use range selection in this case to basically remove let's say the top and tail of a clip simultaneously. So range selection's quite an amazing tool. I'm just kind of, as you can see, scrubbing through this clip to get a sense for its action and what I'd like to do is sort of just keep from this point to right around here. So I want to make a range selection around that area. One way to get better handle over the range is just to zoom in onto your timeline. So I'll hit Command equals a couple times to zoom in and from my toolbar, this time I'm just gonna select the range selection tool. R is an easy way to…

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