All language subtitles for 1. Using Selection Tool and Razor Tool

However welcome back.

It is Brad who again with another tutorial.

This time though I'm going to show you some of the very common tools that you use from your little toolbox

here on the left hand side.

And I'm going to show you that in this particular video just to write the selection tool and the razor

tool two of which are going to be probably the default tools that will go back to in you know for most

of your project when you're editing it.

So I'm going to go to I've got a vlog up on your screen right now.

I'm going to go to another sequence or another vlog just to keep the gist to keep it looking quite simple

because that's quite overwhelming.

But we'll go to a relatively fresh sequence timeline where we've got two clips here on our timeline

just as you would if you have just taken some video from your camera and you've put these two clips

on your timeline.

You play it back okay.

And so you're like Well okay great.

So what do I do now.

I'll show you first and foremost you've got your selection tool and your selection tool or V if you

press TV V on the keyboard.

We'll also select your selection tool.

Now by the way over time you will actually know the shortcut keys to all of these tools on your tool

box when you are editing like I do almost daily videos now which I'm slowly starting to scale back you.

You don't even think about you don't have time to click over here.

You just use your shortcuts on your keyboard.

But when you first starting out you know it's okay to move over here and just manually click on you

know things on your tool box here and click on the razor tool and you know and use that and click on

the selection tool and use that.

But over time you'll actually know you know there's this and you know B is that and you know P is the

pen tool and T is the tax tool like T for text P for Pen.

There's two for you.

The V is the selection tool you know B is you know and it goes on from there.

The ripple edit tool so we'll go back to the selection tool.

Now the selection tool is the default tool that you'll use as your default that you'll usually go back

to and that just allows you to navigate through your timeline just like this you can drag things around.

You'll note the cursor on your screen there is just a typical windows cursor.

It just allows you to click on clips and drag them around like this right.

It's like just think of like basic navigation right.

Just moving around through your time line just basic navigation through your timeline if you want to

start getting into the editing side of your videos then you'll start using the other aspects of your

tool box.

So if you go back to our sequence if I zoom in here and zoom into my sequence if I select the razor

tool that's when I can start chopping away or you know see on the keyboard for cut.

Right.

That's our razor tool.

Now all of a sudden.

Right.

I've got my icon that's changed now into a razor and this is where I can start cutting away.

I don't have you know I'm not navigating through my time I now that I'm actually going in there with

a knife and I want to start removing stuff and chopping stuff away.

So then all I do is I click anywhere I want and I can just start putting cuts through any part of my

clip that I don't want and then I can see like a V right on my select tool click on that piece and then

hit delete.

Now this is probably the more inefficient way of doing it.

This is how I used to edit.

I used to you know take my razor tool click on it and then take the piece moved my play had like this

to the part of my clip that I don't want I then click on it to put a cut through it.

I then go V on the keyboard to hit my select tool.

I then click on it and then go delete right.

I'm showing it this way because it's an option to you of how to use the razor tool.

Alternatively and I show this in another video if I don't want this piece of my clip that I'm moving

my play head over I can actually hit another shortcut on my keyboard W and that.

What that does if I undo that what W does is it will remove any of the clip from where the play head

is right to the end point of my clip.

So again W look at that I automatically apply a razor affect or not affect but the razor tool but also

it moves the rest of my timeline down as you saw that this clip moved down as well.

Right.

Watch this.

If I hit w again and then w again I then automatically just not only have I chopped off this part of

my clip but I've also gotten rid of this space as well and I've managed to marry up this clip here to

my play head.

Again this is something that you know when you play with the software for hundreds and hundreds and

hundreds of hours of editing you come up with the you're you eventually start to incorporate these little

cool little tricks with the software.

Okay.

But just to think just to keep it simple in this video we get our selection tool which will always go

back to you know we can navigate our timeline and we've got our razor tool right here.

Now let me show you something else.

I'm going to find a sequence and I'm going to show you a sequence where the razor tool becomes really

effective.

Now as you can see this is one of my blocks that I did.

And as you can see I'm using like eight video tracks I think yeah I'm using eight.

So go V1 V2 all the way to V8.

So as you can see I've got eight video tracks in action right here.

Now if I want to put a raise if I want to cut all of this simultaneously if I just hit the C I can.

Again I can click on it over here or I can press C on the keyboard.

Now if I want to put a cut all the way down through my work right where my play head is if I hold down

the shift key.

Watch this.

As you can see that cut has been applied all the way through.

If I move my play head away you'll see what I mean.

If I undo that.

See that.

So just by simply holding down the shift key.

Now I've done when I was working on this project I was like well actually it's not practical for me

to just do this if I just want to cut you know like that.

I mean that's just not practical if I just want to manually cut each each thing on my on my timeline.

I just want to cut everything simultaneously but I don't want to cut through my adjustment layer.

So again I locked down my adjustment layer and I don't want to cut through my decide I want to cut through

this track I'd lock down this track as well and I'll lock down the audio one as well and I'm only going

to cut.

Watch this if I hold the shift key down.

See that line there's a line that now drops if I am just toggling the shift key on and off watch this.

Bang.

So that cut has only applied through V2 to these seven.

All right the two three four five six seven has been chopped and were locked down the adjustment layer

by using my padlock here and we're all locked down V1 use my padlock layer on my padlock rather that

has not been affected by my cut on my RES it all right if I undo that undo undo undo undo take it back

to where it was and that's all you need to do so that's a really cool trick when you start working with

multiple layers and you want to cut right through everything simultaneously otherwise if you're just

starting a journey you're probably not going to use any more than two video layers and two audio layers

and you know you'll just be chopping like this and then deleting what you don't want and then going

back to your selection to selecting what you don't want and hitting delete.

And by the way that's okay if you're just starting a journey just keep it that simple but over time

you'll get more efficient with using more effective shortcuts using your keyboard Anyway I hope this

was helpful.

This is just a basic introduction to those two tools if you have any questions let me know and I'll

see you in the next video.