To Move A Trimmed Layer In Time; To Remove A Section Of A Layer - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

Do one of the following:
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Drag either end of the layer duration bar in the Timeline panel.
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Move the current-time indicator in the Layer panel to the time at which you want the footage to begin or end, and
then click the In or Out
Dragging the Out point of a layer duration bar.
A pale rectangle behind the layer duration bar represents the footage you trimmed.
Move the current-time indicator precisely in either the Layer or Timeline panel by choosing View > Go To Time.
See also
"About the Timeline panel" on page 118

To move a trimmed layer in time

After you trim a layer by setting In and Out points, you can adjust the duration position in two ways that have
different results.
Do one of the following:
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Drag the duration bar. If you drag the colored area of the duration bar, the trimmed footage starts and finishes
playing at a different point in time. The length of the play time and the frames that appear remain unchanged.
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Drag the dimmed outline. If you drag the pale rectangle behind the duration bar, the footage starts and ends at the
same point in time as the original position, but different frames appear. For example, if you drag the pale rectangle
to the left, then the In and Out points shift to later frames in the footage. (This is similar to a slip edit in common
editing applications.)

To remove a section of a layer

1 In the Timeline panel, adjust the work area to include only the portion of the layer or layers that you want to
remove:
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Move the current-time indicator to the time at which you want the work area to begin and press B on your
keyboard.
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Move the current-time indicator to the point where you want the work area to end, and press N.
Select the layers you want to remove a section from or turn on the Lock switch
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affected by the extraction.
3 Do one of the following:
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To remove the section from all unlocked layers and leave a gap of the same duration as the removed section,
choose Edit > Lift Work Area.
button to set the In or Out point.
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