Hi Guys let's start looking at the work area and what we can do the work.
Let's create a new composition here.
All Times is 14 seconds.
I click on it and drag it to create new composition.
So this video is very long.
For example I'm doing an intro for my YouTube channel but actually I don't want the whole video.
I just want to say five seconds and I know the five seconds I want to study them at 3.
Ok just from here and them and them I did it.
OK.
I hope my count is right and I want these five seconds to beat the whole length of my composition.
How do I do that.
Come over here two three seconds then you're not to you have a work area start and what area and work
area to start and define the work area you are in.
It's very useful sometimes when you are working on long videos that have a lot of effect to restrict
the work area for a certain portion of your work.
In our case here we want to trim this composition to crop it to five seconds from three to eight.
So the best way to do it is to drag the work area start to the timeline indicate them.
And of course you can shift it to snap it but there is another shortcut that is very useful.
You press be OK for beginning.
And then you come to eight seconds.
That's right.
Eight seconds each to be precise.
And you press and we have seen them before.
Now all I want is from three to eight seconds and I want the rest to disappear.
That's what I want to work with to trim this composition.
You just right click on the work area.
So this is the work area line here.
You're right click and he say trim camp to work area here you are now the work area has become five
seconds.
That's true but it's starting from three seconds and it's ending at eight seconds.
Not exactly what I want I want to start from zero and end at 5.
Well you can use that three and it is no problem but to change that.
It's very easy.
You can click on the name you go to composition setting and here you have start time code three seconds
just put zero and you click OK.
Now we have it starting at zero and ending at 5 seconds.
Not very true.
That's right click go to composition setting.
And actually the duration is five seconds and one frame.
There is always this one frame in excess of the safety frame.
The reasons for this one frame is to keep compatibility with the older kind of movies and instead they're
usually supposed to be zero.
Nevertheless it doesn't bother me.
It's ok you can leave it there.
Five seconds in one frame is the same.
Or you can change it to five seconds.
Now if you come back to the work area and try to right click it's not working anymore.
Why.
Because the work area is as long as the composition.
And there is nothing to do if you're right click.
There is no tree extract or lift call guys so trim camp to work area using the two shortcuts before
beginning and end for end and then trim come to work area to reduce your composition to the work area.
Thank you very much for listening.
I'll see you in the next lecture.