Creating a film clip.

I have a 3.5 hour movie. I wish to snip 45 seconds from within the movie and post that on Facebook. Does anyone have an easy trick in which to get this accomplished?

Posted on Nov 16, 2020 5:37 PM

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Rich839

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Nov 16, 2020 5:51 PM in response to drttd

Expand out your timeline. Put your cursor on the clip and, while holding down the r key, press drag across a range in the clip that you want to use for your 45 second clip. A yellow box will be created. Do an Edit/Copy and then an Edit/Paste into a newly created project. Share out the new project to a movie file on your desk. Post on Facebook.

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drttd Author

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Nov 17, 2020 6:14 PM in response to Rich839

Thanks Rich, I'll give it try.

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