Alright. So we learned the Ripple Edit tool, we learned Rolling Edit tool. Now I'm going to show you a tool that uses both of these methods at the same time and that's your Trim Monitor tool. You can access to Trim Monitor in the bottom right of your controls in the Program panel. I'm going to click on the Trim Monitor. That brings up this nice panel with two windows.
The Trim Monitor is a little tricky to use, because anything you do in this Trim Monitor is actually an Edit. Mainly, we're going to be using these two jog rollers. Now this Trim tool only comes in handy when you're over in Edit. If you're not over in Edit, this Trim Monitor is not going to work. These two buttons right here will navigate from your Previous Edit to your Next Edit and let's go ahead and hit Next Edit Point.
I want you to navigate over to this point right here. I've set this up so this group of clips right here is identical to this group of clips in the middle. I'm going to show how to do the same exact thing, but we're going to use the Trim Monitor to do this. Let's move our cursor over here to the middle jog roller and this is a visual representation of the Roll tool. If you slide this to the right, I want you to take a look at what happens down here in the Timeline. I'm going to grab the Jog and I'm going to start rolling to the right.
Once I let it go, I'm going to let it go when the MP3 player is above her wrist. You'll notice that the Edit moved. When you're using this tool you don't have the chance to accept and deny what changes you make. They just happen once you do them. The only way you're going to get out of this, if you didn't like this edit, was to undo it. It's real, easy, start sliding stuff around and forget what you wanted.
So use this tool carefully. But that was pretty much the roll that we did in the second group of clips. If you navigate to the Next Edit, you can roll the frames back. I'm going to use the center jog and start rolling to the back. Mid turn is right where it looks like it matches up. While I'm here, I'm going to show you what the two jogs do on the left and the right. These are pretty much visual representations of the Ripple Edit tool.
Let's say I wanted to add a couple of frames on the left window. What I can do is, grab this Roll tool; start sliding to the left and I could choose where I want her turn to begin. This looks about right. I think, I have added three frames here. You'll see a slight movement in the Timeline. If jog rollers are not your thing, these timecode indicators or value sliders, notice the cursor changes and I have an arrow to the left and to the right of the finger.
I can actually slide this just like the jog rollers, if I wanted to and use these instead. I'm going to undo that change. That will take care of my Incoming clip. This will take care of my Outgoing clip and then this numerical value right here will be the simultaneous roll, which is what this jog roller was doing. You've also got very fine controls here where I can add one frame, I could add five frames. I could also take them away. I could loop this particular section and I could play just that one particular edit if I wanted to. That's how I use the Trim Window to make nice slide adjustments.
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