I am evaluating Movie Edit Pro Premium and have been using it only for a few hours. I have a single movie with embedded audio (it’s a recording of a slide presentation). There are many areas with long “uhms” and dead silence that can be trimmed to shorten the video. I have gone over many video tutorials and postings that explain how to do this. The basics are to isolate the unwanted video segment then delete it. Fine. It seems that there is an alternative way of doing this and I am writing to ask whether my method will get me in trouble down the line. This is what I have been doing:

In the timeline mode I position the playback marker about where I want to split the video and then hit “T”. This creates two object whose extent I can set by dragging the handles. I stretch/shrink the extent of each object until I get the video I want in each object then abut the two sections. I don’t actually delete anything. This seems to work.

Is there a fundamental problem with this method?