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Slice When the play-head (i.e. red playback line) is overlapping a clip, right click on the clip, and choose Slice
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Slice All When the play-head is overlapping many clips, right click on the play-head, and choose Slice All (it will cut all intersecting clips)
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Resizing Edge Mouse over the edge of a clip, and resize the edge
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Split Dialog Right click on a file, and choose **Split Clip**. A dialog will appear which allows for creating lots of small cuts in a single video file.
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Razor Tool The razor tool cuts a clip wherever you click, so be careful. Easy and dangerous.
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**Slice** When the play-head (i.e. vertical red playback line) is overlapping a clip, right click on the clip,
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and choose :guilabel:`Slice`.
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**Slice All** When the play-head is overlapping many clips, right click on the play-head, and choose
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:guilabel:`Slice All` (it will cut all intersecting clips on all tracks).
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**Resizing Edge** Mouse over the edge of a clip, and resize the edge.
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**Split Dialog** Right click on a file, and choose :guilabel:`Split Clip`. A dialog will appear which allows
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for creating lots of small cuts in a single video file.
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**Razor Tool** The razor tool |razortool_icon| from the **Edit Toolbar** cuts a clip wherever you click on it.
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So be careful, it is easy and dangerous!
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Keep in mind that the above cutting methods also have :ref:`keyboard_shortcut_ref`, to save even more time.
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Files
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Before we can begin making a video, we need to import files into OpenShot. Most media file types are
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recognized, such as videos, images, and audio files. Files can be viewed and managed in the **Project Files** panel.
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To create a video, we need to make media files available to our project by importing files
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into OpenShot. Most media file types are recognized, such as videos, images, and audio files.
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Files can be viewed and managed in the **Project Files** panel.
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Note that imported files are not copied anywhere, they remain in the physical location they
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were before and are simply being made available to your video project. So, they must not be
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deleted or moved after adding them to your project. The "Show All", "Video", "Audio",
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"Image" filters above the files allows you to only see the file types you are interested in. You can also toggle the view between details and thumbnails view of your files.
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Import Files
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There are many ways to import media files into OpenShot.
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These are all possible methods to import media files into OpenShot:
Drag and Drop Drag and drop the files from your file manager (file explorer, finder, etc...)
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Drag and Drop Drag and drop the files from your file manager (file explorer, finder, etc...).
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Context menu (`File Menu`_) Right click anywhere in the **Project Files** panel and choose :guilabel:`Import Files`.
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Main Menu In the main menu choose: :guilabel:`File\→Import Files`.
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Toolbar button Click the |importfiles_icon| toolbar button in the main toolbar.
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Keyboard shortcut Press :kbd:`Ctrl-F` (:kbd:`Cmd-F` on Mac).
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.. image:: images/quick-start-drop-files.jpg
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To view the file menu, right click on a file (in the **Project Files** panel). Here are the actions you can use from the
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Please refer to the section :ref:`clips_cutting_slicing_ref` for more ways to cut and slice clips directly in the timeline.
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This will remove a file from the project. It will not delete the underlying physical file though, so removing a file from the project merely makes it unavailable for this video project.
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