8. Neaten the Edges: Trimming Techniques

"With FCP X, I was able to establish my own filmmaking and editing business in remote outback Queensland, to create and share the unique stories of the people of the bush."

— Kirstie Davison, MaRiKi Media

Kirstie is a videographer and editor based in Blackall, Queensland, Australia. (www.marikimedia.com)

Following the book so far, you've been moving clips around in time, chopping them up, selecting and deleting, and hopefully getting a bit more confident. Probably the single most common operation you've done so far is a basic trim on a single edit point. Simple one-point trimming is certainly a useful operation, and you can make a clip longer or shorter with the keyboard or the mouse. But a one-point trim doesn't always do enough.

In this chapter, you'll discover several ways to adjust not one, but two edit points at the same time. This chapter covers the following topics:

• Rolling an edit...