Adobe Premiere Elements 12 - Manual (Page 84)

Grouping, linking, and disablingclips
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Group and ungroup clips
Link video and audio clips
Synchronize linked clips
Enable and disable clips
Group and ungroup clips
In the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline, you can group clips so that you can move, disable, copy, or delete them together. When
you group a linked clip with other clips, both the audio and video portions of the linked clip are included in the group.
To group clips, select multiple clips, and choose Clip > Group.
To ungroup clips, click any clip in the group to select the group, and choose Clip > Ungroup.
To select one or more clips in a group of clips, Alt-click a single clip in a group. Shift+Alt-click to select additional clips in a group.
Link video and audio clips
Most video includes a soundtrack. In the Project Assets panel, clips that contain both video and audio appear as a single item. When you add the
clip to a movie in the Expert view timeline, the video and audio appear on separate tracks with the video directly above the audio.
The video and audio remain linked. When you drag the video portion in the Expert view timeline, the linked audio moves with it, and vice versa.
For this reason, audio/video pairs are called linked clips. In the Expert view timeline, the names of linked clips are underlined and identified with a
[V] for video or [A] for audio.
Linked clips share same name with either [V] or [A] appended and are underlined.
All editing tasks (such as moving, trimming, or changing the clip speed) act on both parts of a linked clip. You can temporarily override the link by
pressing the Alt key when you initiate editing tasks. You can also place the video or audio portion separately.
Link and unlink video and audio clips
You can link a video clip and an audio clip so that they act as a unit. When you select, trim, split, delete, move, or change the speed of one, you
affect the other clip as well. You can temporarily override the link as needed. In the Expert view timeline, the names of linked clips are underlined
and identified with a [V] for video or [A] for audio.
To link video and audio clips, Shift-click a video and audio clip to select them both, and then choose Clip > Link Audio And Video.
To unlink video and audio clips, select a linked clip and choose Clip > Unlink Audio And Video. (Though the audio and video are unlinked,
they are both still selected. Reselect either clip to use it separately.)
To select linked clips individually, Alt-click the desired clip. After selecting it, you can move or trim the clip independently of its linked clip.
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