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Trim monitors - Media Composer Tutorial

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Trim monitors

- [Narrator] Once you get into trim mode, the composer window turns into a trim monitor, and let's take a look at the controls that come up. I'm going to click into my timeline window and I'm going to select and edit here, and straight away we're in the trim mode. The first thing I want to point out, is that we lose some time code information at the top here. The focus is very much on adjusting the timing of the cut rather than navigating your media. Coincidentally, if we look under the tools menu, there is a time code window, and we can use this to have an additional floating time code reference, and if you click on it, you can choose all the same kinds of options that you'd have in the composer window. I can even add a line, and another, and another, let's just resize a little. This time code window is pretty useful when you're reviewing content because you can make it quite large. If I remove these additional lines, like this, I can change the size and make this pretty massive…

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