How to Shorten or Extend Clips in Final Cut Pro X

Don't spend another minute editing in Final Cut Pro X without these techniques! In this video tutorial, we'll show you some basic and advanced ways to trim your clips or extend them in the timeline.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Extend Clip Duration
00:26 - Trim a Clip to Selected Range
01:02 - Trim to Playhead Location
01:30 - Trim to Skimmer Location
01:44 - Top and Tail Trim
03:07 - Outro

Brought to you by the awesome team at Pixel Film Studios.

⚠️️ This tutorial was created in Final Cut Pro X version 10.4.8. ⚠️

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[arhon]

Just so people do not get confused, "\" is the backslash key (not forward slash as mentioned a few times).

[davewingler]

Love that tip on the Top and Tail technique. I'm saving so much time on all the tips I've learned from you guys!

[MartinRivera]

love the shortcut information, very useful for time saving tips.

[onthhous]

This will be useful when go over a time limit on my videos!

[nellledbetter]

Are there any shortcuts for extending the start point of a shortened clip? So that the clip comes in earlier? Is there a way to do this with multiple clips? So far, I have all these shortcuts for cutting a clip down or extending the end of the clip, but have no clue how to retrieve earlier points of the clip besides simply dragging the start of the clip left, one by one. Surely there is a better way??

[kylene]

This is excellent!
Thank you so much~ 💯💛

[t.bolles]

Thanks for the vid! Helpful for this noob. What about changing the edit point of a clip, say moving it a second earlier, without affecting the positions of all the other clips? Like, say split a section of a clip to put FX on, and wanted to drag the split earlier so the FX starts earlier, without moving other clips in a stack, I JUST want to move the beginning of that clip, replacing the un-FXed clip preceding it the amount that I drag? Is that possible?

[athok]

Do you know a way to add 2 second to multiple clips when they have different durations?
For example you have a sequence: clip_1: 2s, clip_2: 3s, clip_3: 7s -> (add 2s to each) -> clip_1: 4s, clip_2: 5s, clip_3: 9s

[Tonellacam]

What if there are transitions in between the clips, it keeps wanting to shorten the transitions and not the clips it’s annoying !!!!

[danielespinal]

Came here to learn how to extend a clip. meaning I have a 7 second clip and want it to loop for 8 minutes. guess I'll have to keep googling .

[dbzownz]

You know this program is complicated when you have to post a damn video of a tutorial to simply trim/extend shit...