Final Cut Pro HD | H•O•T Hands-On Training [Electronic resources]

Larry Jordan

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What Is Trimming?

Trimming is the process of removing, or adding, frames to the beginning and end of your shots so that the edits flow naturally, maintaining your story, without calling attention to your editing. This is because the best editing is invisible. Your viewer should get absorbed into your story and not be thinking, "Wow! Killer cuts!"

An edit point has three "sides" that can be adjusted:

    The Out of the outgoing clip

    The In of the incoming clip

    The In and the Out simultaneously

To select an edit point, click it with the Arrow tool, or press V to jump the playhead to the nearest edit point. You can toggle between the three sides of an edit point by pressing U.

In this chapter, you will learn, first, about general-purpose trimming tools, then tools that trim just one side of an edit, then tools that trim both sides of an edit. This chapter concludes with exercises in how to trim using timecode and using the Trim Edit window.

MOVIE | Trimming.mov

If you want to see examples of trimming in action, watch the movie Trimming.mov in the movies folder on the FCP HD HOT sDVD.

NOTE | The Importance of Having Handles

Chapter 2, "Understanding the Final Cut Pro Interface," you learned about Media Start and Media End. These vertical line indicators at the beginning and end of your clip show the start and end of the media file stored on your hard disk. The goal in capturing media is to capture a few extra seconds before and after your clip so that you have some additional footage to work with in adjusting exactly where your edits and transitions occur. This extra footage is called the "handle."

Without handles, you can't add transitions, extend shots, or start an In sooner or an Out later. Making sure you capture your media with handles is just really, really important.