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5 Use any combination of the JKL keyboard shortcuts to initiate playback and
trimming,including:
J+K or K+L to trim in slow motion, with slow motion audio playback
Pressing K while tapping J or L to trim a frame at a time
Pressing J or L to trim with real time playback
Pressing J or L repeatedly to trim in fast-reverse or fast-forward, at a variety of speeds
As you dynamically trim, all audio clips in all audio tracks will play back as the playhead
scrolls across them, so you can hear your entire mix as you’re trimming.
6 After you’ve made a trim, pressing the Spacebar initiates Play Around Current Selection
so you can see how that trim plays.
In Dynamic mode, the Spacebar only executes a Play Around Current Selection
operation, rather than play forward as it usually does. What is played by Play Around
Current Selection depends on what is selected; a selected edit plays around just that
edit, a selected clip plays around the whole clip, multiple clips or edits play around the
total selection, including the current Pre-Roll and Post-Roll settings in the Editing panel
of the User Preferences.
7 When you’re finished, you can use the Up and Down Arrow keys to move both the
selection and playhead to another edit point or clip you’d like to trim, or you can press
W again to toggle Dynamic mode off.
You always want to be sure to turn Dynamic mode off when you’re done, because otherwise
using JKL will continue trimming selections whenever one or more edits or clips are selected,
instead of playing the Timeline.
NOTE: While Dynamic mode is enabled, you can use JKL for playback if no clips or
edit points are selected (press Command-Shift-A to deselect all). However, if anything
in the Timeline is selected, then JKL will trim the selection as described above.
Trim Operations that are
Targeted Using the Playhead
The following series of Trim editing commands let you trim clips and edits in different ways
using the position of the playhead to guide the result.
Trim Start and Trim End
The Trim > Trim Start (Shift-[) and Trim End (Shift-]) commands let you move the In orOut point of
all clips that intersect the playhead as either a ripple operation (in Trim mode) or a resize
operation (in Selection mode). You do not need to make a selection to use Trim Start and Trim
End, making these commands fast to use in the right situation. A classic use of Trim End is when
you have several superimposed clips of different lengths that you want to either start or end at
the same time.
Trim Start resizes or ripples (depending on what mode you’re in) all clips that intersect
the playhead, so that each clip’s In point is moved to the current playhead position.
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