All right, let's get familiar with the tools. But before we do that, I want to go over a keyboard shortcut that I normally use when I make a mistake, and that is command Z that will undo any mistake that you just made. Here are your tools, you've been using the Select tool this whole time, so you should already be familiar with it. With the Select tool, you can simply select a clip and move it I feel this is a good closing shot. So I'm going to move it towards the end. You notice what the magnetic timeline all the other clips move towards the left.

There is another clip that I want to add to this timeline because I was able to rack focus from the buckets to this time. So we'll go ahead and add that right over here in the timeline. You can also delete a clip by selecting it and pressing the delete key on your keyboard. I don't want to use this clip of the horse so I'll go ahead and remove that. The magnetic timeline can be a bit frustrating, especially if you are unsure how to use the tools when we added the music it attached to the first clip so you can see what happens if I try to trim the first clip the music clip is also being cut off, I will go ahead and undo by pressing Command Z, you can either control click or right click this clip and then select lift from storyline. This will lift the clip above the storyline without rippling the project.

As you can see, the clip is no longer attached to the music. Let's go to the tools and select trim. Go ahead and select a clip then move it either left or right this is called a slip at it. This doesn't change the position or duration, it changes what portion of the clip appears. This allows you to change the clip start and end points. So I might want this clip to start and end at a different point without having to adjust it to the beat of the music again.

Now I want to show you a different tool called range selection. Now that I have this selected, you can make any adjustments to a certain part of a clip instead of the entire clip. I'll select the first portion of this clip by selecting a range and then pressing the delete key didn't even have to trim the edge of this clip. I want to delete the end of this clip. So I'm going to select a range right here and hit the delete key. So I'm going to press Command plus to zoom in and get a better look at what I'm doing so far.

I always want to remind myself to go back to the Select tool because that's where I use the most. Now we want to make this in slow motion. So let's go to clip retiming and choose automatic speed. We'll leave this clip alone for now because when we get to the next exercise, I'm going to show you speed ramping for now let's go to our browser and pick this clip of this pillar. Let's drag this clip right after the shot of the lamp and it'll push the following clip with the buckets aside and remove the audio for that one. You'll notice that I do shake the camera at the end of every shot and that's because I use those as transitions in between clips.

For now I want to edit the beginning of this clip. So I'm going to move my playhead right over here and I'll trim the beginning of that shot. And I'll go ahead and play that so I can see if that's a good starting point. So I want the clip to end right over here, but I got all this extra space that I want to delete right before it goes into the transition. In the tools drop down menu, we have the blade tool. This can cut or splice any part of the clip in this case I want to come over here with my playhead Don't forget to go back to this Select tool because we are going to trim the edge of this clip over here.

We want to cut all the way until the shakiness happens. And we want a good transition right over here. So I'll go ahead and look at this transition. I'll go ahead and cut the shaky clip a little bit shorter so the transition is a lot quicker. I think that transition looks pretty good. We want to leave that at normal speed and the previous clip is slow motion.

Let's select the previous clip, go to clip retiming options and select automatic speed. I'll click command minus a couple times so I can zoom out. I'll press the spacebar to play what I have so far. Don't use the other tools that much but here's the Zoom tool, you can press the timeline to zoom in. If you hold option while pressing the timeline, you'll zoom out. Over here in the Tools panel, we have the Hand tool I personally don't use this but if you want to move left and right you just select and drag.

I'll zoom in a little bit more so you can see the effect it has if I move side to side, I think it's just easier to move with the trackpad or with my mouse I just swipe left and right. I don't normally use the position tool but if you want to drag clips around, it will leave a gap in between clips. You can also use this to overwrite other clips. I'll press Command Z several times to undo all that. So I want to make sure that the Select tool is still selected. Now we just cover some of the basic ways you can use these tools.

That's it for this video. In the next step, we'll go over markers and speed ramping.