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Fine-tune clips

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Fine-tune clips

- As we've already seen, it's easy to add the portions of the clips you want to add to your project, just by selecting them in the event browser, and dragging them into your project. But it's not very easy to be precise about exactly which frames of the clip you're starting and ending with. That's where the precision editor comes in. It allows you to fine tune the moment where one clip stops, and the next one begins. It can be useful in cases where you want to time the start of a clip exactly with a Music cue, or if there's something at the end of the shot that you want to cut out exactly at the right moment. Now you might have noticed that between each clip you add to the timeline, you see these dark vertical bars. Those represent the transitions between the clips. And by default, there are no transitions. Right now each clip begins as soon as the preceding clip ends, so we have these sharp cuts between the clips.…

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