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Using Slip and Slide mode

Using Slip and Slide mode

From the course: Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Avid Media Composer 5.5

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Using Slip and Slide mode

Now as well as our Trim tools in Media Composer, we also have Slip & Slide tools, which are very similar to what you are used to in Final Cut Pro. Here is an example. This clip here, 9965, when I play it back, notice how the clip ends. (music playing) (Female speaking: Swing dancing is bigger now around the world ) (Female speaker: than it ever was. It's bigger now than it was when it first, when it first came out in the--) Okay, so I like the position of the clip in the sequence, but I don't like the fact that our dancers are coming out of their pose, relaxing, and starting to walk off at the end of the clip there. So to get this right, what I'm going to do is I'm going to park on the very final frame of that particular clip. Next, I'm going to activate this track, and now what I can do is I can come up here to my Slip Left and Slip Right arrows. Now if I click any of these, what will start to happen is I'll start to slip the material backwards or forwards down the timeline, but…

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