QuickTime X Player allows you to make simple edits to your movie files. For example, if you edit the recording from the previous exercise, you might want to remove the first 5. seconds or so in order to go immediately to the important section. It’s important to note that the editing features of QuickTime X Player are very convenient for making quick and easy edits; however, if you want to do more substantial editing, you should consider a dedicated editing application such as iMovie.
1. Navigate to the Movies folder on your hard drive and double-click the file Screen Recording.mov that you created in the last exercise. You can fi nd a short screen recording with the same name in the sl04lessons folder if you want to use this one instead.
2. Choose Edit > Trim, and the player controls change into the Trim controls; your movie displays as a timeline with a series of thumbnail images.
3. Place your cursor over the yellow handle on the far-left side of the timeline, and click and drag to the right. As you drag, you see the current frame displayed in the player; this frame will end up being the fi rst frame of your movie. If you completed the previous exercise, locate the point at which Safari fi rst opens. If using the file from the sl04lessons folder, locate the 6-second mark (approximately).
4. Place your cursor over the yellow handle on the far-right side of the timeline, and click and drag to the left. This frame represents the last frame of your trimmed movie.
Locate the point directly after you closed Safari. If using the sl04lessons file, drag to approximately the 16-second mark.
5. Press the yellow Trim button on the lower-right corner of the controller, and you have a new shortened movie. Press the spacebar to begin playing your newly trimmed movie.
6. Choose File > Save As and navigate to your sl04lessons folder. Note that you do not technically have a Save command available because if you were to save right now, all the original video you trimmed would be lost. Saving as a new file gives you a new trimmed version while leaving the original as a backup. Rename your file ScreenRecording_trimmed and press Save.
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