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The 2nd part of the video I learned a lot of intresting short cut so far. The biggest I learned is that I can go to the beginning or end of a clip and hit [ or ] to lenghten the end of the clip up to 1 second but the only draw back of this is that it pulls the 1 second from the original clip. Meaning if I cut a section out that section will come back when I lenghten it. The Search in music and sound effects is a great way to find that specific music you are looking for when you have a large library like I do.  I always thought that you had to add music just to the clip you wanted. I didn’t know you could add it to the whole background to play throughout the whole thing. I never heard of pinning background music to a specfic video frame. Another great feature is pinning to a scene. I always thought that If I moved the track before that the music would stay and I would have to readjust everything.  Also I always saw Edit Arrange Music Tracks but did not know that I could go in there and adjust the music tracks play order without having to go to the project window and move the tracks individually. Also pin tracks are purple where as regular music tracks are green. Another great feature to do is set up ducking on scenese when the music is covering speech.  Also you can add sound effects even when there is music playing.  If you hold down Cmd + Shift on a scene with sound in the bottom it will take the sound from what you have seleted and allow you to move it to where you wanted. Another great hint I received is that you should wear headphones when you are doing voicovers because if you don’t your scene volume would be recorded also.  Also you can add video effects to a picture which is a great feature. Cause it allows you to not have to do it in Photoshop or Iphoto and save the picture first but you can do it directly in the movie without damaging the original. Anothe great feature I fell in love with quickly was the precision editor. It would allow me to make highlight tapes and other features quicker.  It allows you to not have to delete the video but adjust it by just dragging a blue dot or clicking where you want the clip to adjust your cut too.