Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - Manual (Page 186)

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Editing sequences and clips
Last updated 11/6/2011
• To move the audio portion of a clip to Audio 1 and move the video portion to a different video track, drag the audio
portion upward past the bar separating video and audio tracks. The audio portion will remain in Audio 1 while the
video portion will land in the video track where you drop it.
• To place the video and audio portions of a clip into tracks you specify, drag the video portion to the destination
video track. Press and hold Shift. This will pin the video portion to the specified video track. Continue holding Shift
and drag downward past the bar separating video and audio tracks. Release the mouse and release Shift when the
audio portion of the clip lies over the destination audio track.
• To overlay other clips, drag one or more clips and drop them on the track where the other clips are located.
• To move only one track of a linked clip, press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and drag the part of the clip,
audio or video, you want to move. You do not need to hold the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key after you
initiate the edit. The video and audio will lose sync.
• To insert, drag one or more clips, and press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) as you release the mouse
button and drop the clip or clips into a new location. Clips in all tracks to the right of the drop point shift to the
right of the inserted clips. A gap remains in the track from which you move the inserted clips.
Move clips using the keypad
You can change the position of a clip in a sequence by typing the number of frames that you want to move.
1 Select the clip in the sequence.
2 Using your numeric keypad with Num Lock on, type + (plus) and the number of frames that you want to move the
clip to the right, or type - (minus) and the number of frames you want to move the clip to the left. Then, press Enter
(Windows) or Return (Mac OS).
If any gaps exist between clips, those gaps are filled first. Then, the selected clip overlays adjacent clips by the remaining
number of frames.
Move clips to a different track
❖ Drag the audio portion or video portion of a clip up or down into the track you want. Only the portion of the clip
you drag will move into a new track.
Note: When dragging audio, you can drop it into the next compatible track, or if one doesn’t exist (for example, if you are
dragging stereo audio and only a mono track exists), a new one is created.
Rearrange clips in a Timeline panel
A useful variation of insert and overlay edits in a Timeline panel is known as the rearrange edit. A rearrange edit
extracts a clip and inserts it into its new location. However, only clips in the destination track are shifted; clips in other
tracks are not affected. This technique lets you quickly change the order of clips in a sequence, a task that would
otherwise require additional steps. When you perform a rearrange edit, the Rearrange icon
appears.
❖ Click and drag a clip; then press Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or Command+Option (Mac OS) as you drop it to a new
location.
As you press Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or Command+Option (Mac OS), the Rearrange icon appears. Releasing the clip
performs an insert edit that shifts clips in the destination tracks only.