Working with In and Out points

Setting a clip’s In and Out points is a process called trimming. You define the first frame you want to include in a sequence by marking that frame as the clip’s In point. Then you define the last frame you want to include by marking it as the Out point.

You can set In and Out points for a clip in the Source Monitor. After a clip is in a sequence, you can trim a clip’s In or Out point by dragging its edge. Several specialized tools and techniques allow you to trim multiple edges at once, reducing the number of steps involved and maintaining the integrity of the sequence.

You can perform trimming tasks to a range of selected clips or grouped clips just as you would a single clip. The range or group acts as a single clip; you can trim its outer edges (the In point of the first clip and the Out point of the last clip), but not the interior edges (the In and Out points of each clip in the selected range or group).

To fine‑tune trim edits in a sequence, you can open the Trim Monitor. The Trim Monitor’s layout is similar to the Source and Program Monitors, but the Trim Monitor controls are optimized for precisely adjusting a cut point between clips in a sequence.

Similarly, you can set sequence In and Out points in the Program Monitor for adding clips to a sequence. Though they serve different purposes, controls for setting and cueing In and Out points work the same in both monitors. (See Set or remove sequence In and Out points.)