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Editing Digital Video with Windows Live Movie Maker (part 6) - Editing Your Video - Trimming Video and Audio

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5.4. Trimming Video and Audio

In addition to transitions, effects, and titles, you can also perform a variety of other simple edits on your projects. In this section, we'll examine these trimming functions.

First, it's possible to trim video clips, though as usual only in very simplistic ways. This is an advantage for a number of reasons, but consider a typical example: you have a video clip you took with your digital camera. As is often the case with such clips, the beginning and end of the clip are pretty rough, so what you'd like to do is trim off the beginning and end of the clip so that it begins and ends in more meaningful places.

In previous Movie Maker versions, you could do these types of trims, but also edit out any portions of the video clips you wanted. Now, you can only trim the beginning and end of a clip; you're on your own with the middle. Here's how you make that happen.

Load the video clip you'd like to edit into the Preview pane by selecting it in the Storyboard view. Then, navigate to the Edit tab in the ribbon and click the Trim button in the Video group. As shown in Figure 14, the timeline under the preview display (and to the right of the Play button) picks up some scrubber tools. And a new Trim tab appears while you work.

Figure 14. Windows Live Movie Maker supplies simplistic video editing tools.

As you do so, the part in the middle—with the thick line, as shown in Figure 15—is the part that will appear in the final project. The rest is trimmed off.

Figure 15. As you move the scrubber bars, only the portion between them is used in the final video.

Windows Live Movie Maker does not provide a way to really fine-tune the trim. You can't, for example, move the scrubber one frame at a time. What you can do while trimming, however, is maximize the size of the Preview pane by using the resizer control and dragging it all the way to the right. When you do this, the scrubber bar expands as well, making it easier to make finer edits.


NOTE

Note that Movie Maker doesn't actually edit the underlying video file. Instead, it is simply creating pointers so that when your final video is created, only the parts of the video you want are included. No changes are made to the underlying digital media files that make up the project.

Click Save and close in the Trim tab to save your changes, or click Cancel to exit without saving.

In addition to this bit of video editing, you can also edit the audio mix that is applied to your project. This option—exposed by the Mix button in the Soundtrack group on the Home tab—only becomes active if you've added a sound file to use as a soundtrack. When you click this button, the small control shown in Figure 16 appears.

Figure 16. Control how the different audio sources interact.

By default, the audio mix is perfectly balanced between your soundtrack and whatever audio is present in the underlying video clips. However, if you'd prefer the soundtrack to take aural precedence (that is, be louder), you can slide this control to the right. Likewise, if you'd prefer for the underlying audio in the video clips to be louder than the soundtrack, you can slide this control to left.

NOTE

If you slide the control all of the way in either direction, the opposite audio source will be completely muted. To utilize only your soundtrack and mute the video clips' underlying audio, slide the control all the way to the right.

NOTE

This Mix control works for all clips in your project. That is, you cannot create a different audio mix for each clip.

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