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Trimming Clips in the Storyboard

After playback, you may find that some clips have too much footage either at the beginning or the end of the clip. To fix this, you need to use the Clip Viewer to trim off the unwanted material (Figure 5.19 ).

The Clip Viewer is a powerful part of the Storyboard interface with a number of interesting features including color correction, scene detection, and audio level adjustment. It is a good idea to explore the potential of this tool even though it might not look that exciting.

To open a clip in the Clip Viewer

Do one of the following:

Sending a Clip to the Clip Viewer When in Dual-Screen Mode," later in this chapter.

To set mark-in and mark-out points in the Clip Viewer





1.	Once the clip is loaded into the Clip Viewer, use the mouse or the arrow keys to look for the best place for your clip to startyour new in point. This is called scrubbing and is discussed in the sidebar "Scrubbing Explained," on the next page.
2.	Once you have found the ideal start to your clipthe in pointpress the I key on the keyboard or click the Mark-In Point button . You will see that a small Mark-In Point icon has now been added to the Timeline of the Clip Viewer (Figure 5.20 ). Figure 5.20. The left side of the Clip Viewer shows the Mark-In point that has been added to the clip.
3.	To select a point where you would like your clip to finishthe out pointscrub through the clip again until you find the optimal point, and then press the O key or click the Mark-Out Point button . A small Mark-Out Point icon has now been added to the Timeline of the Clip Viewer (Figure 5.21 ). Figure 5.21. The right side of the Clip Viewer shows the Mark-Out point that has been added to the clip.
4.	Use the Zoom tool to reduce the view if you can't see both the mark-in and the mark-out points on the Timeline display (Figure 5.22 ). Figure 5.22. The Zoom tool in the bottom left of the illustration can be used to scale the Timeline. When the cursor is placed over the Zoom tool, a magnifying glass appears next to it.
5.	Right click the Clip Viewer toolbar and select Player>Play In to Out to play back the clip from the new points you have just defined.
6.	You can set a different mark-in or mark-out point simply by moving the cursor to a new point and pressing the I or the O key again.


Chapter 1 for details on customizing interfaces.

Tips

• Hitting Home or End will take you to the first or last frame of your clip. However, if this is a Subclip, then hitting the Home or End key will take you to the mark-in and mark-out points of the master clip, not the Subclip.

• The extended dialog arrow is always grayed out if you open a Storyboard element in the Clip Viewer. To use the advanced features of the Clip Viewer, you must double-click a clip inside the Project Browser. This is because a Storyboard element is a copy of the original clip, and as a result, you can only alter its mark-in and mark-out points.

Trimming a Storyboard element

You can also directly trim a clip (or Storyboard element) without opening the Clip Viewer. While this has limited potential for editing, it does create a very quick way of previewing a clip.

To open a media clip without using the Clip Viewer

To trim a clip inside its own Picon