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Step Three:
Next, let's do the same thing to the end
of the clip and trim away the fourth slide
(so all you'll see in this clip is that third
slide—the one we want to keep). Scroll
sideways down the timeline until you see
the end of our first clip. Click-and-hold di-
rectly on the end of the clip (that preview
window pops up again), and drag to the
left while you keep an eye on that preview
window. Keep dragging to about the 5:03
end mark (look up in the top-left corner
of the preview window and it shows you
the time in seconds and frames, so stop
around 5 seconds and 3 frames, as shown
here). You've now trimmed off everything
past the third slide, and your original
28-second video is down to about a
5-second clip overall.
Step Four:
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 automati-
cally 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 5 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.
