Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - Manual (Page 171)

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Editing sequences and clips
Last updated 11/6/2011
2 Choose Marker > Set Sequence Marker > In And Out Around Selection. This sets sequence In and Out points that
match the selection’s In and Out points.
This command is particularly useful when replacing or removing clips in the sequence using three- and four-point
editing methods. (See “
Make three-point and four-point edits ” on page 161.)
Remove sequence In and Out points
1 Make sure that the sequence is open in the Program Monitor.
2 Choose Marker > Clear Sequence Marker, and then choose an option to clear the In point, the Out point, or both.
You can also clear an In or Out point by Alt-clicking (Windows) or Option-clicking (Mac OS) the Set In button or
the Set Out button .
Set sequence start time
By default, each sequence’s time ruler starts at zero and measures time according to the timecode format you specified
in the Display Format field of the New Sequence dialog box General tab. However, you can change the starting time
of the sequence’s time ruler. For example, you may want to set the start time to match a master tape, which typically
begins at 00;58;00;00, to accommodate a two-minute leader before the standard program start time of 01;00;00;00.
❖ In a Timeline panel menu, choose Sequence Zero Point, enter a starting timecode, and click OK. (The starting time
must be a positive number.)
Trimming clips
Working with In and Out points
Setting a clip’s In and Out points is a process called trimming. 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.
You can set In and Out points for a clip in the Source Monitor. After a clip is in a sequence, you can trim a clip’s In or
Out point by dragging its edge. Several specialized tools and techniques allow you to trim multiple edges at once,
reducing the number of steps involved and maintaining the integrity of the sequence.
You can perform trimming tasks to a range of selected clips or grouped clips just as you would a single clip. The range
or group acts as a single clip; you can trim its outer edges (the In point of the first clip and the Out point of the last
clip), but not the interior edges (the In and Out points of each clip in the selected range or group).
To fine-tune trim edits in a sequence, you can open 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.
Similarly, you can set sequence In and Out points in the Program Monitor for adding clips to a sequence. Though they
serve different purposes, controls for setting and cueing In and Out points work the same in both monitors. (See “
Set
or remove sequence In and Out points ” on page 164.)
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