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■ TRIM SELECTION

And that’s just the way an audience wants it: timed precisely according to the

needs of the program. But timing isn’t always intended to make you happy or to feel

concise. Witness the scene from Taxi Driver in which Travis Bickle is watching his

antacid fizzle in the glass. It just fizzles … and fizzles … and fizzles. It’s as if his mind is

fizzling right along with the antacid. It makes you queasy and uncomfortable. Now

that is good trimming.

Trimming is a method used to analyze a scene to display it the way it was

intended. When we trim, we look for the rhythm of the cut, the way in which it is dis-

played when taken in context with the adjacent cuts, and the editing errors on each

side of the cut. When we are trimming, we are attempting to fine-tune our sequence.

All the elements are there, but we must make the visual elements follow a pattern that

is pleasing to the eye.

Good trimming requires your focus on two elements: the up-close view, in which

we see the actual transition and how the trim occurs, and a macro view, in which we

look at the way a trimmed piece looks in context with the entire scene. The ardors of

trimming can be exhausting. Eventually, you might need to walk out for a cup of coffee

or a soda; then return to look at the scene again.

Many new editors find trimming a little overwhelming. It certainly can be. But

after a scene is trimmed properly, there is nothing more rewarding. You get excited

about your work and play it back for others with the “I did that” look on your face.

The actual process of trimming can also be a bit tricky at first, as you shall see.

Trim Selection

A transition or cut contains two elements. When trimming, the outgoing clip is referred

to as the A side, and the incoming clip is referred to as the B side. By adjusting the

length of the A and B sides, we are trimming.

There are a lot of ways to trim the cut. If the A side runs too long, we trim

backward, cutting off the excess audio and video. If it is too short, we trim forward,

extending the cut before transitioning to the B side. In some cases, we may want to

extend the visual of the A side over the audio from the B side (see Figure 5.1). This is

known as an L cut because on the Timeline it sort of looks like the letter L lying on its

side. Some editors might refer to it as a split edit because the audio and video are split

into parts.

Figure 5.1 (left) A straight video and

audio cut; (right) an L cut or split edit

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