Out point
Also known as: out, end point
The frame a clip ends on, the second half of every trim and the decision that sets how long a given moment stays on screen.
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What it means
An out point ends a shot. Where it lands decides whether the moment felt complete or truncated, and whether the next clip arrives on time. Both at once, which is why it is hard.
It pairs with the In point and behaves differently. An in point commits to a start; an out point is the one that keeps getting adjusted while a sequence is tuned.
Most out points should be earlier than feels right. A shot held until the action is fully over includes the part a viewer has stopped watching. Leaving early keeps the momentum.
How it works in practice
Cutting on movement works at both ends. Cutting on action gives the out point somewhere specific to land, so the join reads as continuous rather than as an ending. Nothing stops; it continues elsewhere.
Music fixes the rest. A cut landing on the Beat grid feels intentional even when the action would have supported a slightly different frame. The ear overrules the eye here.
Trimming out points is how Pacing gets tightened. Removing a few frames from every shot in a section changes the feel noticeably without changing a single clip choice.
What to watch out for
Late out points are the main reason edits drag. Half a second of nothing at the end of each clip adds up to a slow sequence and a longer Edit length.
Cutting too early loses the result. A trick without a landing is unresolved, and a viewer waits for the completion instead of moving on with the edit, which is the opposite of what the cut was for.
Stabilisation and encoding both need tail frames. Video stabilization uses the end of a clip for analysis, so trimming to the exact last usable frame can leave nothing to work with.
How RawClip handles it
Out points are chosen from the action rather than from where recording stopped, so shots end close to the moment resolving rather than when the camera did. That trimming is most of why a finished sequence is far shorter than the footage it was built from.