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Editing Your M edia
Editing Your Media
Chapter 8:
Once you have your video clips, audio files, and images in the editing workspace/
timeline you can start editing them. Editing is a broad term that encompasses a
number of different functions, including splitting, trimming, applying fixes, and
much more.
This section describes all of the editing processes you can perform on your media
clips.
Content Aware Editing
Use Content Aware Editing* on your video clips to automatically generate the best
outputted video content for your production.
Note: * optional feature in CyberLink PowerDirector.
Content Aware Editing analyzes your video clips and finds the portions that it
believes are the best and most exciting moments, and also the portions that need
fixing. You can then simply click on the "good parts" to include them in the video
production, and choose to fix or trim away the "bad parts".
Note: during the analysis process, CyberLink PowerDirector also detects all the
scenes in the video clips and marks them on the Content Aware Editing window
timeline with .
To analyze the video clips and then open the Content Aware Editing window, do
any of the following:
right-click on a video clip in the media library or the timeline, and then select
Content Aware Editing.
click the icon underneath a video clip's thumbnail in the media library.
If you would like to perform a batch analysis on multiple video clips at once, do
this:
1. In the Media Room, click on to access the library menu and then select
Content Aware Details.
2. Select all the video clips in the Analyze column and then click the Analyze
button.