Cut/Trim, Move and Delete
To cut a video, select it in the timeline by left-clicking on it. Move the yellow playhead to the desired time you want to make a cut and use the Cut button on the left side of the screen or simply press "S" on the keyboard. Now your clip will be split in two separate parts that you can move around as you wish.
How to Trim a Video
To trim the video, just grab it from its left or right side in the timeline and drag towards the middle of the video.
How to delete a video section
To remove a video section, you first need to separate it by doing one or two cuts as presented in the Cut section above.
Make the first cut at the beginning of the section you want to remove and the second cut at its end. Next, click on that new section to select it and press the Delete button on the left side of the screen or use the Delete key on your keyboard.
Moving objects on the timeline
To move a clip in the timeline, click on it to select it, and you will see a yellow border around the clip. If you want to select multiple clips, you can click and drag on an empty space to draw a yellow selection box over them. To select multiple non-adjacent clips, hold down the CTRL key (Windows) or Command ⌘ key (Mac) and click on individual clips.
Once you have selected the clips you want to move, you can click and drag them to a new location in the timeline to rearrange them. Additionally, you can move the selected clips to other tracks if you need to.
Handling gaps in the timeline
How to delete and remove gaps between videos
You can delete a video section and connect videos together by automatically using a Ripple Delete. To do this, select a clip and press Shift + Delete on your keyboard.
If you have an empty space on a track, you can easily close that gap. Just hover over the empty space and click the delete button or small ellipsis icon (the three dots) that appears, or right-click the space and select Delete this gap from the context menu.
Delete Multiple Gaps
If you have multiple gaps on a track and you would like to remove them, you don’t need to delete them one by one. Right-click on an empty space and select Delete all gaps to the right from the context menu.
Keep in mind that the gaps will be closed starting from the gap you right-clicked and moving to the right. Any gaps to the left of your selection will remain in place.
You can also select Delete all empty tracks from this menu to completely clean up your timeline.
Insert media in a Gap
To insert media into a gap, first make sure that the media you’d like to insert fits into that space.
If the media is larger than the gap, you can trim, cut the file or simply move the media file over the clips.
If the media is smaller, you can simply move or extend the adjacent media files towards the newly inserted media file.
Cut Multiple clips at the same time
To cut more than one clip at once, make a multi-selection (using the yellow drag box or CTRL/Command click) and position the playhead where you want to cut. The cut will be performed vertically across all the selected clips when you click the Cut button or press the “S” key.
Ripple Split
Sometimes, when editing, you may want to add something in the middle of a complex video that has a lot of assets overlapping on different tracks in the timeline.
Instead of cutting each clip manually, you can hold down the SHIFT key on Windows or the Option key on MacOS, and use your left mouse button to move the playhead to the left or right. Ripple Split cuts the clips into two parts and moves the rest of the timeline to the right to create a gap.
Ripple Move
The Ripple Move function allows you to move an asset on the timeline along with every other asset to the right of it. This helps you move assets while maintaining their position relative to each other on the timeline.This feature is especially useful when you want to create a gap in the timeline but you have a lot of clips in it and moving them manually will take a lot of time.
To do a ripple move, select the clip in the timeline and hold down the SHIFT key, and use your left mouse button at the same time to drag the clips to your right.
To do a ripple move on multiple tracks, hold down the SHIFT key on Windows or the Command key on MacOS using the left mouse button to select multiple clips on different tracks. You can also click and drag on an empty space in the timeline to draw a yellow selection box over multiple clips at once.
Once you have selected them, hold down the SHIFT key or the Command key and move the clips to the left or right by clicking and dragging with the left mouse button.
