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Trim with the keyboard

Trim with the keyboard - Media Composer Tutorial

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Trim with the keyboard

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- [Instructor] I've mentioned a few times that a lot of the power in editing with Media Composer comes from working with the keyboard. And trimming operations are no exception. We've already encountered using the a and the s keys to jump in and out of trim mode. But there are a couple of extra keys that are worth learning if you don't mind spending the time. I'm going to go into the keyboard settings here in the project window and I want to draw your attention to a couple of buttons that you might recognize. In fact, let me move this display down a little bit. Course, we're in trim mode now in the composer window, and so we've got these trim left eight frames, and one, and one frame forwards, and eight frames forward buttons displayed under what was originally the source monitor, but is now the end of the clip to the left of the edit we're trimming. Those buttons are replicated here on the standard Media Composer keyboard. So it's m comma fullstop and forward slash. So you can use…

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