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Editing movies, Trimming movies – Nikon D3100 User Manual

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Editing Movies

Trim footage to create edited copies of movies or save selected frames as JPEG stills.

Trimming Movies

To create trimmed copies of movies:

1

Display a movie full frame.

Press the

K button to display pictures full

frame in the monitor and press

4 and 2 to

scroll through pictures until the movie you
wish to edit is displayed.

2

Choose a starting or end point.

Play the movie back as described on page
49, pressing

J to start and resume playback

and

3 to pause. If you intend to trim the

opening footage from the copy, pause on
the first frame you wish to keep; if you will be
trimming the ending footage from the copy, pause on the last frame you wish
to keep.

3

Display the retouch menu.

Press the AE-L/AF-L button to display the
retouch menu.

Option

Description

Choose start point Create a copy from which the opening footage has been removed.

Choose end point

Create a copy from which the ending footage has been removed.

Save selected frame Save a selected frame as a JPEG still.

A

Starting and Ending Frames

The starting frame is shown by a

d icon, the final

frame by a

e icon.

K button

AE-L/AF-L

button