Working with audio clips in the source monitor – Adobe Premiere Pro CC v.7.xx User Manual

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allow you to trim an edit point. These tools and techniques allow you to trim more easily and accurately, reducing the number of steps involved and
maintaining the integrity of the sequence.

You can perform trimming tasks to selected edit points of a clip, or selected edit points from multiple clips. There are new icons for the tools, and
when selecting edits with trim tools, the edit point is highlighted with a color related to the trim you perform.

You can use keyboard shortcuts on selected edit points to trim clips in the timeline. Trimming in Premiere Pro has a keyboard driven workflow, as
there are keyboard shortcuts for every trimming task. See

Timeline trimming

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You can use Trim Mode to help you dynamically trim edit points using buttons, or keyboard shortcuts. You can use the J-K-L keys to dynamically
trim clips. See

Work in Trim Mode

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You can trim clips in the Speech Analysis pane of the Metadata panel, setting In points and Out points on selected spoken words.

There are many keyboard shortcuts available for the job of trimming, however, a number of them aren't set by default. Go to Edit > Keyboard
Shortcuts (Windows) or Premiere Pro > Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac OS) to set trimming shortcuts.

Working with audio clips in the Source Monitor

You can work with audio clips, and audio from audio and video clips in the Source Monitor. You can view audio waveforms, scrub audio
waveforms, and zoom in and out on audio waveforms.

View audio waveforms

When opening an audio clip in the Source Monitor, audio waveforms appear automatically. When opening an audio and video clip in the Source
Monitor, you can also view audio waveforms.

To view audio waveforms in an audio and video clip, choose Audio Waveforms from the monitor's panel menu.

You can view the audio waveforms for clips containing multiple audio channels when opening them in the Source Monitor.

Scrub the audio waveform in the Source Monitor

In the Source Monitor, drag to the left or right anywhere on the waveform.

The playhead appears where you click and the audio clip is played, forward or backward, at the speed at which you drag across, or scrub,
the clip.

Zoom in or out on an audio waveform in the Source Monitor

You can zoom into an audio waveform in the Source Monitor to better identify locations for markers, In points, or Out points.

1. Double-click an audio clip in the Project panel to open it in the Source Monitor.

2. To zoom in horizontally, drag either end of the zoom scrolling bar that runs below the time bar in the Source Monitor.

The waveform of all channels, and the time bar, will expand or contract horizontally.

3. To zoom in vertically, do one of the following:

To zoom in on a single channel, drag either end of the vertical zoom bar that runs next to the decibel ruler on the right side of the
Source Monitor.

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