Trimming shot length using the Ripple Edit tool

- [Narrator] In the previous chapter,…I promised you several times that we would be…getting to some more advanced trimming techniques…and so the time for that is now.…Specifically in this movie,…we'll take a look at how to perform…ripple trims to adjust the length of our clips…and to control where the clips begin and end.…Let me show you what I mean by this.…Right now I have a sequence that's at a slightly…different place in editing and it actually…speaks to a slightly different editing workflow.…In the previous chapter I relied on careful…marking of my in and out points,…and a sort of meticulous sub-clipping…to get exactly what I needed down to the timeline.…

But here I've got the exact same excerpts…of the same clips edited into the timeline…but I've been a lot rougher in laying everything down.…So I've got basically everything I need…but there's some dead space and upcut dialogue…that I need to fix.…So I'm going to play just a few moments of this…so you get the idea.…Let's zoom in, plus, plus.…And play over this edit.…