Trimming clips (cs5 and cs5.5) – Adobe Premiere Pro CC v.7.xx User Manual

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Trimming clips (CS5 and CS5.5)

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Working with In and Out points
Working with audio clips in the Source Monitor
Working with clips in the Source Monitor
Timeline Trimming (CS5.5, and earlier)
Making ripple and rolling edits
Make slip and slide edits
Making split edits
Work in the Trim Monitor
Trim with Speech Analysis

Working with In and Out points

Setting a clip’s In and Out points is a process called marking. You define the first frame you want to include in a sequence by marking that frame
as the clip’s In point. Then you define the last frame you want to include by marking it as the Out point. In a typical workflow, you mark In and Out
points for a clip in the Source Monitor.

Adjusting a clip's In and Out points after it is already edited into a sequence is called trimming. Typically, you trim clips to adjust how they play
back in a sequence. For example, as you view the edit, you decide that you want to cut to the incoming clip a little sooner than you originally
planned while marking clips. To fix that problem, trim the clip using trimming tools in Premiere Pro.

You can trim clips by dragging the edge of a clip. A clip's "edge" is a clip’s In or Out point, or edit point. Several specialized tools and techniques
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 fine-tune trim edits in a sequence in the Trim Monitor. The Trim Monitor’s layout is similar to the Source and Program Monitors, but the
Trim Monitor controls are optimized for precisely adjusting a cut point between clips in a sequence.

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.

Online resources for basic trimming in Premiere Pro

Franklin McMahon shows Ripple Edit, Rolling Edit, Slip, and Slide tools

in this video

from the Layers Magazine website.

This excerpt

from the “Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Classroom in a Book” introduces the more advanced editing tools, including tools for rolling,

ripple, slip, slide, lift, and extract edits.

For more information about trimming clips,

see this excerpt

from An Editor's Guide to Premiere Pro by Richard Harrington, Robbie Carman,

and Jeff Greenberg.

Working with audio clips 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.

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