We'll do all of our editing here in the timeline. You can see here that we can use skimming and there is a playhead right next to it so you can begin playing footage from that marked area. I'll go ahead and move the playhead in the beginning and play the footage. If you haven't gone to these clips in the browser, yet, there was one that really caught my attention that will be great for the first shot. I did a couple of ticks of the sign and this was my favorite. This window in the right is the inspector where you have more control of each clip or you can get some info about the clip.

I'll go ahead and click on this right icon so we can view the shared Inspector, you'll be able to see the resolution of the clip I have selected is 1920 by 1080. When I recorded this, I ran the frames per second at 59 point 94. Here's the name of the clip under the title. Remember when we were creating our project under video format, the video resolution was 720 P and the frames per second was 23 point 98. Now let's see what happens when I move the clip to the timeline. If I move it here in the beginning, it will push the rest of the clips to the right.

Okay, let's play the video. In the beginning all right. Final Cut Pro adjust the size for you and remove 60% of the frames so it can run at normal speed during playback. If you shoot video at different frame rate to create a speed effects, you can use the automatic speed option to maintain the clips original frame in the timeline. Let's select the first clip, click the read time pop up menu and choose automatic speed. every frame of the original clip plays back at the project's frame rate at 23 point 98 frames per second so the action takes longer and you get the slow motion effect.

Okay, so I'm going to stop the playhead right over here. And I'm going to trim the beginning of the clip. Once the mouse is right at the edge of the clip, you'll see the mouse changes and there is a roll of film right next to it. I'll click and drag so we can trim at the beginning of this clip. You'll Notice it will snap right here in the playhead and I'll let it go. I want the clip to end right before it gets too shaky so I'll leave the playhead over here.

Then I'll trim the end of the clip until it snaps to the playhead. Sometimes that snapping can get in the way or sometimes it's convenient. If you don't want snapping enabled, you can do select the snapping button over here you can see the difference when I'm trimming around the playhead. I can trim frame by frame without having to worry about this stopping at the playhead for now I'll leave the snapping button on I want to go ahead and play the video so we can see what we got so far. All of my other clips were reported at 59 point 94 frames per second. So I'll go ahead to the return pop up menu and choose automatic speed.

I want to minimize the shakiness by using this Motion effect. I'll go ahead and play the video I noticed it will start to smooth out in the middle of the clip so I'll trim the beginning where it's extremely shaky. I'll let us snap right there with the playhead. Right now it's a little bit smoother. The shakiness is starting to pick up right about there. So I'll trim the end of the clip and let it snap to the playhead.

I think that's good enough right there. You just learned a little bit of the basics of editing and the timeline on the next step. It will be more about the creative process when adding music and it won't be so technical. Now let's go ahead and move on.