Intermediate

40 mins

Teacher/Student led

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Pupils work on their own device

What you need:
Chromebook/Laptop/PC

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 the same three clips in two different orders. Watch both and decide what story each version tells.

Version 1

Version 2

Nothing was added, and only the order changed.

Today's clips

Download all three before you start. Each one opens in a new tab, where you can save it with the download button or the three dots (⋮) in the player.

👇 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 clips on a timeline, which is a strip running from left to right. The left is the start of your video and the 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 use tracks

Pictures and sound go on separate rows, so you can change one without changing the other.

👇 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 web browser at snipsound.com/video-editor. You do not need to make an account or install anything, and your clips stay on your own computer.

Add the globe first, on its own, and then add the fire and the music.

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

Now trim each clip, which means cutting it to the length it needs. Drag the edge of a clip inwards 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 now have a sequence. Your two video clips are in order on one row, with the music underneath, and each one is cut to a set length.

Key point

Nothing new was added. You only chose what to keep, for how long, and what comes first, and that is editing.

What would change if the globe played for all ten seconds instead of four?

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