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One of the most important steps during import of your footage is cutting out unusable
scenes from the material. There are two options in this case:
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Option 2: You can cut the material already in the Media Pool, i.e. BEFORE you import it,
you need. This process is recommended for
editing.
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to edit it now.
• Play back your video by clicking "Play" on the program monitor's transport control (or
emoving unusable scenes
•
Option 1: First, the complete material is loaded into your project and the unusable
scenes are cut out.
and then proceed to import only the scenes
long movies with a lot of
Cutting videos in the project
Let's assume that you have already imported your film material into a project and would
simply press the space bar on the keyboard).
• If during playback you have reached a scene that you would like to cut out, click the
playback button in the transport control a second time. The playback marker stays near
the start of the scene to be removed.
Tip: In case of long films or to speed up the search, you can fast forward the video and
follow the action with the preview monitor. To do so, pull the playback marker across the
timeline while holding down the mouse button (but not too fast!).
• Set the playback marker exactly at the start of the unusable material. The zoom function
is recommended to get a better view of longer videos (the +/- buttons in the bottom right
corner).
• Press "T" on the keyboard. This will split the current scene into two sections at the
playback marker.