Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 122)

117 USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Editing clips
Last updated 8/12/2010
The selected trim sections are highlighted. When you select a trimmable section, all trimmable sections turn into blue-
striped sections.
Note: If you have to choose selected trim sections of multiple clips, first select the clips, and select the trim sections.
7 Right-click a trimmable section (the blue-striped region). The following options are displayed:
Trim Enables you to trim the selected trimmable section.
Keep Enables you to retain the selected trimmable section.
Select All Selects all the trimmable sections in the current selection.
Smart Trim Options Displays the Smart Trim options.
8 Select Trim to trim the trimmable region, or select Keep for retaining the trimmable section. You can also trim clips
using the Delete key on the keyboard.
9 (Optional) To undo the previous trim action, right-click the clip, and select Undo Smart Trim.
To come out of the Smart Trim mode, select Timeline > Smart Trim Mode.
Automatic Smart Trim
1 To enable automatic Smart Trim, do one of the following:
• Select Timeline > Smart Trim Options. In the Smart Trim Options dialog, select Automatic.
• Click Smart Trim Options above the Monitor panel, select Automatic, and click Save.
Note: When you are in the automatic Smart Trim mode, you see the message, Smart Trim Automatic Mode: Clips Will
Be Trimmed When Added To Movie, above the Monitor panel. You also see the Smart Trim Options button.
2 Click at the top of the Timeline panel to enable Smart Trimming.
3 Click Organize, and drag- the required clips onto the Timeline.
Adobe Premiere Elements analyzes the clip and highlights the sections of the clip that need trimming. The Automatic
Smart Trim confirmation dialog is displayed.
Note: To manually analyze the clip before you drag them into the Timeline, right-click the clip, and select Run Auto-
Analyzer. For more information on the Auto-Analyzer feature, see “
Auto-Analyzer ” on page 77.
Note: If a clip is not selected, striped patterns are used to highlight the Smart Trim sections of the clip.
4 Click Yes to remove the highlighted trimmable sections from the clip.
Smart Trim options
Smart trimming uses quality factors such as brightness, blur, shaky, and contrast and interest factors such as face,
motion, and dialog as criteria to trim the clips. You can set the levels of quality and interest before trimming the clips.
Quality Level Enables you to specify the levels of quality factors that Adobe Premiere Elements uses to determine the
trimmable sections. The quality factors include blur, shaky, brightness, focus, and contrast. If you move the slider to
the extreme right, all sections that are not high quality are highlighted as trimmable sections. As you move the slider
toward the left, the trimmable sections reduce. If you move the slider to the extreme left, only low-quality sections are
highlighted for trimming.
Interest Level Enables you to specify the levels of interest that Adobe Premiere Elements uses to determine the
trimmable sections in a clip. The interest factors include faces, dialog, close up, camera moves like pan and zoom, a
large group of people, and a small group of people.