Summary
Hopefully, this chapter has opened your eyes a little to what a modern editing program can do. If you’ve come from iMovie, this is probably the point where you realized just how much more power you have here. Rolling, Slipping, advanced keyboard trimming, and number-based edits are just some of the features you’ve now learned, and mastering these will give you new solutions to the problems you’ll encounter as an editor.
The next chapter expands your options further, showing you how to work with multicam footage, how to replace one clip with another, and how to use the unique Auditions feature to give you additional flexibility — especially handy with clients who don’t know what they want yet. Options ahoy: read on.