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

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Using the Precision Editor

Using the Precision Editor - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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Using the Precision Editor

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- [Voiceover] Final Cut Pro X has a dedicated workspace for performing the most used trimming functions. Let's take a look at how we could use the Precision Editor to refine our edit decisions. So I'm in my 2.9 keyword collection and I've double-clicked my project to open it in the timeline, and there's another handy tool that we can use for our trimming situations. What I'd like you guys to do is move actually between your fourth and fifth clip, so we're there on the timeline, I just used my downward arrow keys to get there, and I'm actually gonna double-click the edit point. Once I double-click the edit point something strange is gonna happen, your kind of timeline is gonna get split into two, so I wanna let you know that the clips that we clicked the edit point, that's this clip on the left, and this is this clip on the right. And what we're seeing, this grey area here, is actually the clip's handles. So if you're ever looking to see your clip's handles in the timeline notice here…

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