How do you load a clip into the trimmer, wherever that is?

Click Options Menu. Hold down Shift and click Preferences. That gives you a tab called Internal.
Scroll completely down. About 8 up from the bottom, it reads Show Trimmer, type TRUE as value. Restart Screenblast.
In the Media Pool Window, you have now a new Tab called Trimmer.
In Media Pool, load a piece of video you want to edit. Right click on the image of it in Media Pool and choose "Open in Trimmer"
In the Trimmer, click the begin point of the clip you want and drag to the end point (you can follow in the Preview Window). Right click and say Copy. Click the video track and say Paste, or you can right click and say Add Media From Cursor (make sure your cursor in the Video track is at the right insertion place.
Hope this helps

The trimmer is a great tool in most cases because it allows you to select only the portions of your video clip you actually want to use.

But yours may be one of the few cases where you may just want to lay the whole clip on the timeline and throw away the boring parts. (Did you actually just let your tape run continuously through a whole baseball game?)

Once you've placed your clip on the timeline, simply set your timeline cursor at the beginning of a segment you want to cut and click the razor blade icon to make a cut -- then move the cursor to where you want the next segment to begin and cut again. Now (with "ripple edits" enabled) simply double click on the segment to be deleted (It will highlight) and press your Delete key. Your "boring" footage will disappear and all the footage to the right of it will jump right up flush against the spot you began your cut.

grisetti,
I didn't let the camera run for an entire baseball game( can you imagine) but
even weeding through the clips is a long project. I think I haven't had the ripple
edits on because I was always moving the clips forward to split them. Thanks for you replies...Be right back.....
Awesome ! That was it! Much easier, now that makes sense.
Thanks

The Trimmer is neat (so why do they hide it under internal, and where to I get "The Missing Manual" for MS3?), but every time I paste into the timeline from the trimmer I get a message that says "An error occurred during an edit operation. The reason for the error could not be determined." Yet the action appears to work, but the message is annoying, none the less.

I got the "hidden" trimmer set up and it works for trimming, but when I go to paste the section of interest, using the paste button on the trimmer, it appears at some random point on the timeline. How do I control where it goes? I set the time indicator where I want it, but it pays no attention to that and pops in overlapping some earlier footage on the time line.

In the Menu Options, I have the top 7 items "on".
I choose the part I want from the Trimmer by holding the left mouse button down till the end of the part I want.
Then I go to the Timeline and place the cursor (long vertical line) where I want it to be inserted (make sure the Video channel is selected - blue).
Then I go back to the trimmer, click the right mouse button while being over my selection and choose "Add media from cursor"

Can't say the clip goes random in the timeline, it goes exactly where I wanted it.

As for the previous poster, I don't get an error message, I don't know why you do....