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Now, what about that second clip we added that appears immediately after the clip we just
trimmed? Won't there be a big gap of nothing between the two clips? Nope. Photoshop
automatically moves that clip over for you, so there are no gaps in your movie. Pretty
sweet, eh? Here, you can see your two clips, which, even after trimming, are still back-
to-back. If you look up at the top of the timeline, you'll see that the first clip is now only
around 15 seconds of your movie, and the second clip starts immediately after it. Also,
don't worry, even though you trimmed that video away, you can always bring it right back
the same way you trimmed it—just click on either end and drag it out (so it's really more
like it's hidden than trimmed, but again, in the world of video, its referred to as “trim-
ming”). Okay, that's all there is to it.
Working with Audio and Background Music
There are three types of audio you'll wind up dealing with in your movies: (1) there's audio
in the video you captured with your camera, and you get to decide whether your audien-
ce will hear that or not, (2) you can add a background music track behind your video, and
(3) you can add additional audio tracks for things like narration or sound effects. Luckily,
managing these is fairly easy.
Step One:
We'll pick up with the two clips we used in the previous trimming project. If you look in
the Timeline panel, directly below your movie clips, you'll see an empty track right below
it (and it says Audio Track to the left of it, below Video Group 1). That's where your au-
dio (background music or narration tracks) goes. To add an audio track, click directly on
the little music notes icon and, from the pop-up menu that appears, choose
Add Audio
(as
shown here).
