Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 113)

Chapter 5 Basic Editing 113
Learning About the Trim Edit Window
Once you’ve finalized or nearly finalized a sequence, you can begin the polishing
process of trimming clips using the Trim Edit window.
To open the Trim Edit window, you choose Sequence > Trim Edit or double-click an edit
point in a sequence with the Selection tool. The Trim Edit window appears, displaying
the outgoing and incoming clips of the selected edit point or the next edit point.
Mark In button Mark Out button
Outgoing clip’s Out point
Incoming clip’s In point
The Trim Edit window provides a special side-by-side view of outgoing and incoming
clips and enables to you make fine adjustments to how one shot leads into another.
An easy way to conceptualize the display of the Trim Edit window is to think of it as
showing the edit point where two clips meet in a sequence.