Overlay a clip into a sequence, Make three-point and four-point edits, Make a three-point edit – Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 User Manual
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Editing sequences and clips
Last updated 11/6/2011
Overlay a clip into a sequence
1
Double-click a clip in a Project panel or sequence to open it in the Source Monitor.
2
Place the current-time indicator at the point in the sequence where you want to overlay the clip.
3
Click the headers of the tracks where you want to overlay the source clip components to target them.
4
Drag the source clip track indicators to the headers of the tracks where you want to overlay the source clip
components.
Note: During an overlay edit, if a targeted track has no source track indicator, then an empty track background will be
inserted on that track for the duration of the source clip, removing any previous contents at that location
5
In the Source Monitor, click the Overlay button
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The audio and video components of the clip will be overlaid onto the tracks selected at the current-time indicator.
Make three-point and four-point edits
The Source and Program Monitors provide controls to perform three-point and four-point edits—standard
techniques in traditional video editing.
In a three-point edit, you mark either two In points and one Out point, or two Out points and one In point. You don’t
have to actively set the fourth point; it’s inferred by the other three. For example, in a typical three-point edit you would
specify the starting and ending frames of the source clip (the source In and Out points), and when you want the clip
to begin in the sequence (the sequence In point). Where the clip ends in the sequence—the unspecified sequence Out
point—is automatically determined by the three points you defined. However, any combination of three points
accomplishes an edit. For example, sometimes the point where a clip ends in a sequence is more critical than where it
begins. In this case, the three points include source In and Out points, and a sequence Out point. On the other hand,
if you need the clip to begin and end at particular points in the sequence—say, perfectly over a line of voice-over
narration—you could set two points in the sequence, and only one point in the source.
In a four-point edit, you mark source In and Out points and sequence In and Out points. A four-point edit is useful
when the starting and ending frames in both the source clip and sequence are critical. If the marked source and
sequence durations are different, Premiere Pro alerts you to the discrepancy and provides alternatives to resolve it.
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Working with In and Out points
Make a three-point edit
1
In a Project panel, double-click a clip to open it in the Source Monitor.
2
Click the headers of the tracks in a Timeline panel into which you want to add the clip to target them.
3
In the Timeline, drag the source track indicators to the headers of the tracks into which you want the clip
components to fall.
4
In the Source and Program Monitors, mark any combination of three In and Out points.
5
In the Source Monitor, do one of the following:
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To perform an insert edit, click the Insert button
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To perform an overlay edit, click the Overlay button
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