Work in the trim monitor, Open or close the trim monitor, Display the edit point you want to trim – Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 User Manual
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Editing sequences and clips
Last updated 11/6/2011
Work in the Trim Monitor
The Trim Monitor displays clip In and Out points at a cut so that you can see precisely which frames you are cutting.
The left monitor shows the clip to the left of the edit point, and the right monitor shows the clip to the right of it.
Open or close the Trim Monitor
•
To open the Trim Monitor, click the Trim button
at the bottom of Program Monitor, or select Window > Trim
Monitor.
•
To close the Trim Monitor, click the close box
of the Trim Monitor.
Display the edit point you want to trim
1
In the Trim Monitor, click the Select Video Or Audio Track button and select the track you want to edit.
2
In the Trim Monitor, click the Go To Previous Edit Point
or Go To Next Edit Point
button until the Trim
Monitor displays the frames on either side of the edit point you want to change.
Preview the edit in the Trim Monitor
•
To preview the edit once, click the Play Edit button
.
•
To preview the edit repeatedly, click the Loop button
.
Cancel an edit
❖
Press Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Command+Z (Mac OS), or use the History palette.
Set trim preferences
You can set the number of frames that will be trimmed when you use the Multiple-Frame Trim-in button
or the
Multiple-Frame Trim-out button
.
❖
Choose Edit > Preferences
> Trim (Windows) or Premiere Pro
> Preferences
> Trim (Mac OS).
View source timecode in the Program Monitor
You can display the source timecode in the Program Monitor preview for clips in a sequence as you edit:
•
If you trim a clip, the clip’s source timecode is displayed.
•
If you perform a slide edit, the new source media In and Out points for the adjacent clips are displayed.
•
If you perform a slip edit, the clip’s new source media In and Out points are displayed.
❖
Choose Timecode Overlay During Edit from the Program Monitor panel menu. A check mark indicates that the
command is selected.
Working with clips in a sequence
Find a clip in any sequence with Clip Usage
Note: You can also see the number of times a clip has been used by making the Video Usage column visible in the Project
panel. For more information, see “