Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - Manual (Page 185)

179 USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS4
Editing sequences and clips
Last updated 11/6/2011
Snap a clip to a clip edge, marker, or current-time indicator
1 Make sure that the Snap button is selected in a Timeline panel.
2 Drag the edge of a clip close to the edge of another clip or a marker or the current-time indicator. A vertical line
appears when alignment occurs.
You can toggle the snap feature using a keyboard shortcut (S) even during an editing operation, such as moving or
trimming a clip.
Aligning clips with the snap feature enabled
Rearranging clips in a sequence
Move clips
You can place clips in playback order to create a sequence in a Timeline panel. You can also change the order of clips
once they are there, replace them, remove them, or insert additional clips.
Move clips in a Timeline panel
You can drag a clip and place it in an empty spot or snap it to another clip. You can also insert and overlay clips that
you move. Watch the translucent rectangle that represents the clip’s duration as you drag it. To move multiple clips,
select a range of clips, or move a group of clips. A tool tip displays the amount of time moved as you drag. The window
displays a negative number if you drag the clip toward the beginning of the sequence, and a positive number if toward
the end.
Overlay is the default mode and is indicated by the Overlay icon when dragging clips. Pressing Ctrl (Windows) or
Command (Mac OS) as you drop a clip performs an insert edit. The Insert icon appears when you drag clips while
pressing Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS).
By default, you can change the track location of either portion of a clip, audio or video, by dragging that portion. The
other portion will remain in its original track. You can change this behavior, however, either by pressing Shift while
you drag, or by dragging vertically across the bar that separates the video tracks from the audio tracks. When you drag
a part of a clip vertically into a new track, it will snap to its original time location in the new track, if Snap is turned on.
❖ Do one of the following:
• To move the audio portion of a clip to a different track, drag the audio portion of the clip vertically to the
destination audio track.
• To move the video portion of a clip to a different track, drag the video portion of the clip vertically to the destination
video track.
• To move the video portion of a clip to Video 1 and move the audio portion to a different audio track, drag the video
portion downward past the bar separating video and audio tracks. The video portion will remain in Video 1 while
the audio portion will land in the audio track where you drop it.