From the course: Video Editing Fundamentals

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Trimming: Fine-tuning the product

Trimming: Fine-tuning the product

From the course: Video Editing Fundamentals

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Trimming: Fine-tuning the product

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- There's an old saying that the best type of writing is rewriting. This just means that you don't arrive at greatness the first time you put pen to paper, and it's only by trying different things and making tweaks that you're really able to make something shine. Much the same is true for video editing. Certainly, building the foundation of video is hard work, but it's only through refining and trimming the edit that you begin to really breathe life into your video to make it its best. Now, we've already talked a little bit about one type of refinement, which is simply the careful act of trying many different options, juxtaposing different combinations of video and audio to arrive at the best result. The art of trimming comes after that. Once you have the shots assembled in the right order, you go through each and every one of your edits and determine exactly how each shot comes together. It's about deciding the duration of…

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