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Timeline Editing
Extracting Top and Tail
One of the main ways to manipulate material edited in the Timeline is to
remove entire shots and parts of shots. In Chapter 2, you learned how to
mark IN and OUT points to define the area to be removed. In this section,
you’ll learn how to use the Top and Tail commands to quickly extract footage.
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Click the Top button to extract footage from the start of the clip up to
the position indicator.
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Click the Tail button to extract footage from the position indicator to the
end of the clip.
By default, the Top and Tail commands are not mapped to your keyboard
or user interface. You’ll explore keyboard mapping in much greater detail in
Chapter 6, but for now, let’s quickly select Top and Tail from the Command
palette to map these functions to your keyboard or user interface.
To map the Top and Tail commands to
your keyboard or user interface:
1. Select Tools > Command palette, or press Ctrl+3 (Windows) or
Command+3 (Macintosh).
The Command palette opens.
2. Click the ‘Button to Button’ Reassignment button, if necessary.
3. Click the Edit tab.
Locate the Top and Tail commands that you will map to your keyboard
(or user interface).
Top a n d Tail commands
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