Finding, splitting, and trimming
This is the part that perhaps requires most of your time in these kinds of projects. After we add our video clip (which is now in the Media library) to the timeline, we now must watch our recording and find the good parts of our gameplay. These could be anything from really cool moments to really funny ones as the main point of this task is to find out which parts will be most enjoyed by the people viewing your video.
So, add your video to your timeline and find those parts. When you find a good clip from the recording, make sure to snip it on both ends and color code it, so you don’t accidentally delete it.
To color code a clip, all you need to do is right-click on the clip you want to color code and at the bottom of the context menu, you can select a color, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 10.2: Video clip context menu
As you can see next, I color-coded my video clip as green: