Wow, even though I had a little eyeball icon next to a couple of these topics, I seemed to have completely missed some of what they contained. For instance, I had a helluva time adjusting the clips I joined to make the Zoo Tour video for our Machinima project last month. But this time noticed the Clip Trimmer tool.
I suspect the name "trimmer" let me to expect that it could only be use to shorten clips, and so I was trying to use the Trim Clip End function from the Clip menu, which for some reason I did recall could lengthen a clip, though so minutely that is was not really useful. I would instead just delete and then reinsert a clip that was too short.
I'm still not sure how to use the Precision Edit tool to do edits to only one clip. While I can see that the slip edit quality of the tool would be useful after picture lock, there are many times when I think I would want to lengthen one clip and not change the adjacent one. Maybe the precision tool is not capable, but maybe it is coming later.
Editing is the one part of the film making process that I am not competent in, and I am really enjoying the thought that I might finally master what is the final draft of the cinematic story process.
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