Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 129)

124 USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Editing clips
Last updated 8/12/2010
Trim a clip in the Preview window
You can trim a clip in the Preview window before placing it in the Timeline or Sceneline. Trimming in the Preview
window does not affect instances of the clip that are already in the Timeline or Sceneline. Once a clip is in a movie, you
can reopen it in the Preview window to change its In and Out points for subsequent instances, either regaining frames
previously trimmed or trimming additional frames.
1 In the Tasks panel, click Organize, and then click Project to open Project view.
2 Double-click a clip in Project view.
3 To trim the clip, do any of the following in the Preview window:
• To set a new In point, either drag the In point handle or drag the current-time indicator to the desired location,
and click the Set In button .
• To set a new Out point, either drag the Out point handle or drag the current-time indicator to the desired
location, and click the Set Out button .
4 Click the Close button in the Preview window.
Subsequent instances of the clip dragged from Project view to the Timeline or Sceneline will assume the In and Out
points of the trimmed clip.
Retrieve frames in the Preview window
1 In the Tasks panel, click Organize, and then click Project to open Project view.
2 Double-click the video clip in Project view.
3 In the Preview window, do one of the following:
• Move the current-time indicator to the frame you want as the first frame of the clip, even if it’s to the left of the
current In point. Click the Set In Point button .
• Move the current-time indicator to the frame you want as the last frame of the clip, even if it’s to the right of the
current Out point. Click the Set Out Point button .
• Drag the In point or Out point handle to the frame you want.
Zoom in and out in the Preview window
When previewing a clip in the Preview window, you can zoom in or out of its mini-timeline to expand or contract its
increments. Zooming in on the mini-timeline helps you see changes happening over small spans of time, even over the
duration of a single frame. Zooming out helps you see changes happening over longer spans.
• To zoom in, drag the claw at either end of the zoom control toward the center.
• To zoom out, drag the claw at either end of the zoom control out toward the edge of the mini-timeline.
To view a different area of the mini-timeline, drag the middle of the zoom control to scroll the mini-timeline right or
left. When zoomed in, you may not see the slider shift position, but you will see the mini-timeline scroll as you drag
right or left.
Split clips
You might want to apply different effects to different parts of a clip; for example, to speed up the first part but leave
the second part at normal speed. To do this, you cut a clip into separate pieces, and then apply effects and transitions
to those pieces. You can split a clip in a movie by using the Split Clip tool
in the Monitor panel. It cuts one or more
selected clips at the current-time indicator.