Introduction to Avid Media Composer
Course 4 - Image Editing: The trim tool
By Raúl Barreras , Film Editor
About the video: The trim tool
Overview
“The trim mode is a tool that allows us to modify the entry or exit points of a clip, modifying or not the place of the rest of the clips. This lesson will allow us to know from where we activate it and how the modifications we make are visualized, as well as to differentiate between what it means to adjust by overwriting or dragging the material. The display of the monitors changes.”
In this video lesson Raúl Barreras addresses the topic: The trim tool, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4 - Image Editing. Editing your first Avid sequence.
Partial transcription of the video
“Introduction to AVID COURSE 4 LESSON 5 Trim tool The time has come to adjust cuts, Avid offers a very powerful tool, Trim, that allows you to adjust cuts. When we activate it, the monitors change, they become a representation of that cut, of entry and exit. Trim mode can be a bit difficult when accessing for the first time, But it is also very useful. I show you. So far we have seen different options to edit our projects. We have learned to mark the entrance and exit from the source monitor, and also to send them to our timeline once we had made the selection marks of entry and exit. Also, ...”
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Course summary for: Course 4 - Image Editing
Raúl Barreras
By Raúl Barreras
Raúl Barreras is a professional film editor from Bilbao, Spain. He is passionate about cinema and whenever he had to make decisions as a student, he directed himself towards where he believes the heart of movies beat—the editing. After studying at the Cuban film school EITCV, he has worked on the edition of 11 fiction and documentary films between Spain, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.
He has edited fiction films including Los tontos y los estúpidos, selected for the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and documentaries such as Parque LENIN, winner of the Best Film Award at the Moscow International Film Festival, all of them put together with Avid Media Composer, one of the software with the greatest possibilities for editing any audiovisual project.
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