Trimming Looped Clips

You can trim looped clips in two ways:

Loop Trim a looped clip to change how long the clip is looped. For example, Loop Trim a looped clip from 2 bars to four bars. With a 1 bar clip, the number of loops changes from 2 to 4. Each loop iteration remains the same length, but the length of the entire looped clip changes.

Trim the source clip (loop iteration) while keeping the overall loop length unchanged. The number of loop iterations within the looped clip changes accordingly. For example, trim a 2 bar loop iteration of a 4 bar looped clip to 1 bar. The 4 bar looped clip remains constant, but the number of loop iterations changes from 2 to 4. Each loop iteration’s length changes, but how long the clip is looped does not.

To Loop Trim a looped clip:

1 Select the Loop Trim tool.

2 Move the cursor over the top half of the looped clip (not over a Loop icon). The cursor indicates the Loop Trim tool.

 

Loop Trim tool

3 Trim the looped clip.

 

Loop trimming a looped clip

The number of loops increases or decreases to fill the new length of the entire looped clip.

Hold the Start key (Windows), or the Control key (Mac) while trimming to trim in loop iteration increments.

Trimming a looped clip does not trim any underlying Fades.

To trim the source clip (loop iteration) of a looped clip:

1 Select the Loop Trim tool.

2 Move the cursor over a Loop icon in the looped clip, or anywhere along the bottom of the clip. The cursor indicates the Trim tool icon.

 

Loop Trim tool

3 Trim the start or end of the loop iteration.

 

Trimming a looped clip

The number of trimmed loop iterations increases or decreases to fill the original length of the entire looped clip.

 

Trimmed looped clip