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Select, Cut, Copy, Paste
If you have ever used a text editor or a word processor, you are already familiar with the concept of editing based on selecting, cutting, copying and pasting.
SimpleMovieX works the same way, the only difference is that what you select, cut, copy and paste, is a sequence instead of a block a text.
So the general process for editing will be:
Sequences can be can moved from one movie to another just as you would copy a bit of text from one document to another. Multiple level Undos and Redos in Edit menu will forgive any misstep during edition.
Get started: Edit with the Search Pane.
For beginners, a more graphical and intuitive way to edit, is to do it with the Search Pane directly.
By pointing and dragging with the mouse on the tiles, you can accurately select a segment inside the movie.
The highlighted area represents this segment and its duration in displayed.
If you decide to cut it, the movie will jump directly from the starting point of the segment to its end, skipping it altogether. As a result, the duration of the movie is reduce by the length of the segment.
Instead of Cut button, if you press the Trim button, only this segment is kept. The rest of deleted.
Note that all operations can be undone: In Edit menu, you find multi-level Undo and Redo. So don't be afraid of doing a mistake.
If instead of Cut, you do Edit > Copy, the selected segment is stored in the Clipboard.
You can create a new document with that segment: File > New from Clipboard.
You can also paste the segment at a different location in the same document, or in another document.
Edit Marks
Every time you cut or paste, some edit marks appear in the Timeline.
Those marks indicate a discontinuity in the movie, in other words, that editing has taken place.
You can move the playhead directly to edit marks with Command - Left arrow and Command - Right arrow.
Go to Saving and Converting or Go to Advanced Editing to learn more.