• Adobe After Effects

  Using only part of a long clip

  Posted by Bill Nahlik on September 1, 2009 at 12:31 pm

  When I load a long clip into the viewer window and mark an in point, I would like to drop that clip into my timeline beginning at that in point.
  I know I can scrub through the clip in the comp window, but an 8 minute source clip takes a while to scrub in a 30 second comp!

  Bill Nahlik replied 17 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Todd Kopriva

  September 1, 2009 at 3:36 pm

  You can trim a footage item in the Footage panel to do what you describe.

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  Bill Nahlik

  September 1, 2009 at 3:52 pm

  Thanks, Todd. It’s the putting it in the comp first that is the step I was missing. Double-click on the layer in the comp window, then adjust it in the viewer window.

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