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

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Trim start and trim end

Trim start and trim end - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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

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Trim start and trim end

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- While you can accomplish a lot of trimming using the default selection tool, there are two magic shortcuts that allow you to trim the start or end of your clip based on where your play head is. The best part about it is there's no need to even select the clip. Let's take a look at this action in detail. So we're in Chapter 1.1. We're going to find that project in the projects event. You're going to see a little warning icon here, don't worry about it, everything is connected into your project. But this usually comes up if there's missing media, or there's a problem with the project. But we are good to go. We're going to go into the 1.1 events and we're going to double-click the 1.1 project to open in the timeline. And as you can see I have some footage of an aerialist here that we'll be working with and trimming in our project. The end results through these trimming activities, you can use it now or later, is to try to get the footage down to the length of the music and you can do…

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