Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 460)

460 Part VII Fine-Tuning Your Edit
Note: You can specify the default number of frames to trim by changing the Multi-
Frame Trim Size setting in the Editing tab of the User Preferences window. (For more
information, see “
Choosing Settings and Preferences ” on page 945.)
4 Click the Play In to Out button (or press Shift-\) to review the new section between
your sequence clip’s In and Out points.
To slip multiple clip items at once in the Timeline:
1 Select the Selection tool in the Tool palette (or press A).
You can also temporarily turn the Slip tool into the Selection tool by holding down the
Command key.
2 Select multiple clip items in the Timeline.
The selected clip items can be in one or more tracks. Selected clip items do not have to
be adjacent. For example, you can hold down the Command key while clicking clip
items to make a noncontiguous selection.
3 Select the Slip tool in the Tool palette (or press S).
4 Type a positive or negative timecode number to slip all selected clip items by that
amount, then press Enter.
The selected clip items slip by the duration you enter. If one of the selected clip items
cannot be slipped, none of the items is slipped.
The timecode entry field
shows how far you are
slipping the clip.