So we are going to cover how to trim our footage

and we're gonna add it to our arsenal of techniques here

inside Da Vinci Resolve.

And I'm gonna do it working

with just these first two little clips.

So I'm gonna put my playhead on this cut, hit D

to zoom in a little bit.

I'm gonna shift my playhead off to a smidgen

and we need to talk about this right here.

This cut point, something I haven't done yet,

and something you might've experimented

with is shifting this cut point.

If I hold my mouse in between so that it's directly in

between, you can see that it forms this bracket.

And so what I can do is I can shift this cut,

put point around, excuse me.

This can be very useful for when we want to change,

when one video leads into the other or the audio as well.

So clicking in the middle shifts that if I move ever

so slightly to the L oh, there we go to the left.

My icon changes to a single bracket

with this filled rectangle.

This allows me to drag the edge of our cut.

So if I wanted to get a little bit closer to

where I start speaking here, I could again grab the edge

and pull it over.

Now we've got this gap in between.

So what I could do is drag and select this, pull it over,

or I'm gonna hit CT control Z.

Once, like I showed off in the last video,

we can click the gap, hit F to ripple, delete.

That process that we went

through is typically called trimming your footage.

'cause we're shaving off the edge of

where things are beginning and ending.

Now here's where some really important stuff comes in.

That process is a destructive process, meaning

that we cannot recover information if we change this cut

point or we trim the edges.

Let me show you what I mean.

You see this little blurb here where I say, Hey, hey, okay,

if I were to take the cut point of this clip here

and shift it over so that I get rid of the hay, if I were

to take this second clip

and move it to the right, you notice how we don't regain

that audio file.

That's because when we put audio

or video on top of existing audio

or video, it overwrites it.

It does not store that information underneath.

Again, if I were to take this clip right here, move it over

to the left, release my mouse button,

drag it over the right, you see

how it deletes the existing footage,

this can become very important

because let's say I bring this over to the left

and I go, well, hmm, my voice is getting cut off here.

I need to drag the edge over.

Well then in doing so,

we've lost the beginning of this clip.

Obviously the quick fix is to kind of grab that edge here

and pull over to the left

and then we, you know, problem solved.

But on bigger timelines, we,

we wanna avoid having this headache.

So there is a very powerful tool built into Da Vinci

that handles this and it's called our trim mode. So if I

Go up to our editing toolbar here

and I hover over this icon, this will toggle our mouse

to go into the trim edit mode.

Now, if you're using my keyboard shortcuts, I have mapped

that to the shift and W button.

So you can either click this icon or hit shift

and w to swap to the trim edit mode.

Now this is a very, very special tool and I'll show you why.

If I were now to go to the edge

of our clip here in the trim edit mode, watch what happens

with our audio and video.

As I move this point,

it pushes it to the right.

We're not overriding anything,

we're pushing our footage away.

Vice versa. If I go to the left side, it's going to

maintain our footage over here and push it out as well.

So if you're ever in a situation where some part

of your footage is cut off, what you can do is

select the trim mode, go to the edge,

and then push it out so that we regain that information

and we don't override anything on

the other side of the playhead.

Now the trim mode has a lot of really cool features.

Like for example, if I were to click on our right clip here

and I have my mouse just somewhere in the middle, okay,

so it's not sitting on any of the borders or the edges.

I can slide the footage so

that our cut points remain the same, but the in

and out points of our media shift.

So if I wanted our audio to be closer to this edge,

well I can slip it that way.

Very useful, very powerful tool to get back

to the normal, uh, selection mode.

You can either hover over the mouse and click it

or I have it mapped to W.

So for us to toggle between these two modes,

we can either hit shift and w to go to our trim mode

or just hit w to go to our normal selection mode.

And then we can use the normal selection functions.

Again, big takeaway here,

moving our footage is a destructive process

individually resolved.

When you move clips

or assets on top of each other on the same track,

it overwrites it, it deletes it.