Video Trim in AE?

[Paul Hennell]

You can press “Alt/Option + [” to trim the layer at the current marker (Left bracket “[” puts left edge to marker right bracket “]” puts right edge to marker).

You can also use Edit > split layer to create two layers split at the current time which is handy for ‘editing’.

If you want to do any real editing though its best to use Premiere and import – it’s much much easier.

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[Jameson Sheppard]

Thanks, that’s exactly what I needed.

I just have a couple of video files I need to grab like 5 seconds out of, so this works perfectly.

[Alexander Sheva]

There is a way to delete a part of the footage. You should press B at the beginning of the part you want to cut out and N at the end. Then go to Edit -> Extract Work Area. You will get ripple deletion.

[Caroline Sears]

For those of you just finding this thread – we’ve documented the different ways to trim a clip here!

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Hope it helps!

[Echo Chan]

You can check this article out: https://www.joyoshare.com/video-cutting/cut-video-in-after-effects.html

Sometimes I would also use Joyoshare VidiKit to cut videos losslessly. It supports entering start/end time of a video into the temporal interval with millisecond precision. It is much more easy-to-use I think.