Cutting Down To Size and Ripple Delete

Now I had the basis for my video, all video and images had been added to my timeline. However the video, as it stood was 1 minute 13 seconds and 2 frames long so I needed to cut it down to the desired minute mark.

I employed a couple of techniques to accomplish this. To start with I adjusted the scroll bar at the bottom of the timeline in order to expand the size of the clips. This magnified any gaps there were between the clips.

I was then able to right click in the gaps between clips and select ripple delete in order to close them.

I then resized some of the still images, I had used, so that they did not take up as much time on the timeline. I did this as opposed to editing the video footage as I was happy with the footage I had and did not want to change it. I then used ripple delete to close any gaps that this method created on the timeline.

This then gave me a nice round minute of footage.