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Vidder Maker Workshop The Third Gate: Clip trimmer crib sheet	How to get into Second Life without really trying Selby Evans is Thinkerer Melville in Second Life You can probably do this on your own. But if you need help, contact Thinkerer Mellville or Geo Meek.
1. Your edit clips will have things on them that you want to take out. Here's how.	If you see a big red X, it means that WMM cannot find the file. You probably moved it to a different location.
2. Open Windows Movie Maker. Find an edit clip you want to clean up.	The edit clips you selected are in the story board.
3. Above the storyboard is a mention of Timeline. Click on that to go to the timeline.	Critical distinction: Storyboard handles to clips as units. Timeline works in time units. Click on the zoom-in marker (look left) to expand the scale. The edit clips are still in order. But now the length of each clip is proportional to the time it takes to run.
4. Click on the clip you want to trim. Go to the preview player and click the play button.	Watch the clip to note the approximate times or events that mark your trim point.
5. Move cursor to the end point you want to trim. Watch for the red, double-ended arrow.	You can trim either end point. Or both.
6. Follow the click and drag instructions to trim the clip.	Watch the previewer to see what you are clipping. (Move carefully or you will get ahead of the display You can undo the trim with an option under edit.
7. Decide to trim something in the middle of a clip. To do that, you need to split the clip in 2 parts.	Humor me. The way you remember how to do something is to do it. If you just read about it, you will probably only remember how to talk about it.
8. In the previewer , move to the point where you want to make the split.	You move through the previewer by moving the slider or letting it play
9. Click the split button on the previewer	Bottom right, two buttons. Reels split, camera. One splits the edit clip, one gets you a jpeg. You take it from there.
10. After the split, you have two clips. You trim them as above. (Recursion, we Geeks call it.)	Make a WMV file as you did at the end of the selection crib sheet.
You are now a clip trimmer	If you are working with someone else, the trimmed selections file is probably what you would send for editing into a final video. If it is for one scene, it will probably be small enough to go by e-mail.

Your Power Badge for the Third Gate
You have at least 3 minutes of trimmed video clips in compressed format (.wmv, .mov, or MPEG4)	Windows users will probably make .wmv files. Mac users will probably make .mov files.
When you have this Power Badge, you have mastered the Third Gate	You are ready to challenge the Fourth Gate

The six gates
Camera tech crib sheet	Camera tips
Selection editor crib sheet. Select and compress what you want to keep.	VidTech FAQ
Clip trimmer crib sheet
VO Tech crib sheet
VO Talent crib sheet
Vid finishing crib sheet

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