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Selecting Edit Points
When the Trim tool is selected, dragging a bounding box over a series of clips in the Timeline
selects the edit points to join clips together, instead of the clips themselves. This makes it fast
and easy to select multiple edit points that you want to operate on simultaneously.
Selecting edit points in the Timeline using the Trim tool
Rippling the Timeline With Dierent Operations
When the Trim tool is selected, other commands and controls that would ordinarily resize a clip
or clips and leave gaps in the Timeline instead move (ripple) clips that are to the right of the clip
or edit you’re trimming over to the left to prevent gaps whenever clips or edits are moved
or resized.
Rippling the incoming edit point of Clip L to resize it and prevent a gap from appearing by
moving all clips that are to the right (Clips P, L, and N) over to the left
For example, the Retime controls, the Extend and Trim Start/End commands, and the Nudge
keyboard shortcuts all work differently depending on whether you’re using the Selection or
Trim tools. This lets you use one set of tools to do different operations, depending on what you
need to do.
Rippling Gap
You can also use the Trim tool (or other trim operations described later in this chapter) to ripple
the start and end of a gap in the Timeline. Rippling a gap lets you grow or shrink the gap while
moving the portion of the Timeline to the right of the gap forward or backward in time.
Whenever you ripple against gap, a 2-up display appears that lets you see both the clip you’re
trimming and whatever superimposed clips may be showing through that gap.
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