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Editing Video with Snip Studio, Part 1: Import, Sequence and Trim

Students bring three clips into Snip Studio, put them in order on the timeline and trim each to a set length, ending with a named project that plays in order. This lesson counts towards outcome 3.8: students use these editing skills to build their digital montage in the montage lessons that follow.

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1 Start
2 Timelines and Tracks
3 Hands-on: Import and Place Your Media
4 Hands-on: Trim to Length and Save
5 Make Sense
Quiz

1 - Start ~4 mins

Illustration for Start Your teacher will play you two versions of the same three clips, cut in a different order. Watch both, and decide what each version says happened.

Version 1

Version 2

Same footage, nothing added. The order did all the work.

Today you build the sequence. Next lesson you finish it and re-cut it to see the effect for yourself.

The clips for this lesson

Download all three before you start. Each opens in a new tab: use the download button in the player, or its ⋮ menu, to save it.

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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2 - Timelines and Tracks ~5 mins

Illustration for Timelines and tracks A video editor shows your footage as a timeline: a strip running left to right, where left is the start and right is the end.

Word	What it means
Clip	One piece of footage or sound sitting on the timeline.
Track	One row of the timeline. Rows play at the same time, which is how music plays under the pictures.
Trim	Making a clip shorter by dragging its edge in.
Playhead	The vertical line showing which moment you are looking at.

Why more than one track

Keeping the pictures and the sound on separate rows means you can change one without disturbing the other. That is the whole reason editors use rows.

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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3 - Hands-on: Import and Place Your Media ~13 mins

Snip Studio runs in your browser at snipsound.com/video-editor. There is no account to make and nothing to install, and your clips stay on your own computer.

Bring in the globe first, on its own, then the fire and the music.

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4 - Hands-on: Trim to Length and Save ~13 mins

Now cut each clip to the length it needs. Drag the edge of a clip inwards to trim it, and line it up with the numbers on the ruler above the timeline.

Clip	Trim to
Computerised Globe (first)	4 seconds
Ring of Fire (second)	6 seconds, so the pictures end at 0:10
Special effects music	10 seconds, ending with the pictures

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5 - Make Sense ~3 mins

You have a sequence: two clips in order on one row, the music on the row underneath, each cut to a deliberate length.

Key point

Nothing here was invented. Every decision was about what to keep, how long to keep it, and what comes first. That is editing.

What would change if the globe ran its full ten seconds instead of four?

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