The first part of editing I want to tackle is dropping and trimming your layers.
OK we need some footage here.
So our right click on the project panel and of course you know you got to import file and select these
two images and three videos that will do a click Import
could create a new composition now which is 50 seconds long 12:18 by 720 with do you have 50 seconds
guys you can press five.
So that's five frames.
This is two seconds because we are in Boston T5 not some looky over here.
OK so 500 will be five seconds and 5000 would be 50 seconds and here you are.
The first method we learned to drop footage in the composition is just to select it click and drag and
drop it inside the car.
Good.
So click on the footage and come to the composition in the timeline now and decide that you want to
drop it just over here.
Now there is an interesting method that you can use the stick the time indicator to 25 seconds for example.
OK.
There's got to 25.
Precisely.
If you click and drag your footage OK and you come on this side you can decide where to drop it.
You notice how you have another time indicator moving on.
So you have the real time indicator another head playing around or play head.
And you notice the time on the left now indicating where the new play head is.
OK.
So if I want to drop my video for example of 30 seconds I can come over here and it's pretty hard to
get 30 seconds.
The best way is to set your time indicator come nearby and press shift OK.
Notice how they merged and you release here you are the point of the laser is exactly 25 seconds.
The way you would like.
Now we can click and drag and adjust it anywhere you want if 25 seconds is not what you want.
Let's look at this flat.
Here let's take this.
Let's move the other one here.
You notice that on the left and right you have two black rectangles.
This means that this footage the video itself starts just at this point.
And before this point before the black triangle there is no footage there is no frames for the video.
And actually the layer starts here on the outpointed that is all you will notice.
So you have the black triangle and it means because there is the black variant.
There is no footage after that.
But as you notice the mouse pointer here if I come to the beginning or to the point it changes into
a double arrow you can click and drag and trim your lair.
Hopefully you know your video very well.
And you know what you are dreaming.
OK.
Then on the point you can do the same.
You can click and drag.
Now notice the end point and the output of the lead have changed.
Why.
Because now you're working with the left over here.
You're not working with the footage.
This is one way to trim the layers and try another way that you already see.
Let's take a whole food dish for example and create a new composition.
Let's say you want to trim everything from one second to the beginning of the composition to the beginning
where do you see the beginning of the composition.
So you zoomed in is going to still trim to the beginning of the composition.
OK.
There is a very simple shortcut that you have seen already.
It's art or optional on the Mac and left square brackets here.
So it seems from the time to get to the beginning of the comp there is another shortcut that you might
already know is alt right square bracket.
We already said that that tool trim from the time indicated to the end of the composition plus or minus
one frame you're not is there is a frame here that is left over.
Not notice the same techniques can work for a triangle for example or even for text if you like.
OK.
You're not is that text and shiploads are created for the lens of the composition.
You can still come over here.
This is the important you can pass.
And you know it's the import of the shape there.
If you haven't moved it if you press I you are in trouble.
I will undo the move.
OK.
Then you can also click on the double arrow at the point and just limit or if you like you can use the
alt or option on the Mac and left square bracket.
And of course you can do the same for the end provided you haven't moved the layer beyond the end of
the composition or beyond the beginning of the position.
OK guys because would not be able to see the point and here of course you can apply alt or option on
the Mac and right square bracket area are you have trimmed the layer the selected one.
And of course if you had selected more layers it would have trimmed the same.
So thank you very much for listening.
I'll see you in the next hour.