简介

Obviously, the first thing in assembling your timeline is importing or adding strips. There are several ways to do this and each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Before you can do anything with a strip, you have to select them. There are multiple ways of selecting strips.

Splitting or cutting a strip will create two parts of the strip (before and after the split). There are two variants: Split and Hold Split.

Trimming is the process of removing or adding a portion of the video at its head or tail. This will result in a decrease or increase of the duration of the video.

Hint

Creating a good montage is a time consuming process. Therefore, all basic operations (add, split, trim, …) have an associated shortcut. It pays off to learn these shortcuts, even though the same result could be obtained with the menu and/or mouse.