User Manual

Selecting Trim Sides
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Single trim rollers: Overwrite trim selected (left), Ripple trim selected (center), Dual-roller trim selected (right)
• Your Avid editing application highlights one or both of the frame counter indicators below
the monitors to reflect the active trim sides: A-side, B-side, or both. The number indicates
the frames added to or subtracted from the transition.
When you clear your trim selections, the trim tools remain active. You can turn off the trim tools
by clicking the trim tool buttons in the Timeline palette or by clicking the Smart tool toggle bar.
You can use different methods to select a transition for trimming. The optimal selection method
depends on your workflow.
To select the sides of a transition to trim, do one of the following:
t Select one or both of the trim tools on the Timeline palette, and then click the outgoing
(A-side) or incoming (B-side) monitor to define which side of the transition to trim.
The pointer changes to an overwrite trim or an ripple trim icon over either the A-side or the
B-side of the transition, depending on the position of the pointer.
t Use the Trim buttons in the Trim tab in the Command palette or the Trim keys on the
keyboard to select side A, side B, or both.
You can map these buttons to other locations, as described in “Mapping User-Selectable
Buttons” on page 112.
t Use the Cycle Trim Sides button to cycle between selection for a single transition of the
A-side, B-side, or both.
t Lasso a transition to select both sides of a transition for trimming.
If you lasso multiple transitions from left to right, you select the segment and not the
transitions. If you lasso multiple segments from right to left, you select transitions for slip
trim.
t Use one of the keyboard shortcut keys to select both sides of a transition relative to the
position indicator:
Shortcut Key Selection
U Nearest transition
A Previous transition