Trimming clips (cs6) – Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 User Manual
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Trimming clips (CS6)
Working with In and Out points
Working with audio clips in the Source Monitor
Working with clips in the Source Monitor
Timeline trimming (CS6)
Making ripple and rolling edits in the Timeline
Make slip and slide edits
Work in trim mode (CS6)
Work in the Trim Monitor
Trim with Speech Analysis
Working with In and Out points
Setting a clip’s In and Out points is a process called marking. 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. In a typical workflow, you mark In and Out
points for a clip in the Source Monitor.
Adjusting a clip's In and Out points after it is already edited into a sequence is called trimming. Typically, you trim clips to adjust how they play
back in a sequence. For example, as you view the edit, you want to cut to the incoming clip a little sooner than you originally planned while
marking clips. To fix that problem, trim the clip using trimming tools in Premiere Pro.
You can trim clips by dragging the edge of a clip. A clip's "edge" is a clip’s In or Out point, or edit point. Several specialized tools and techniques
allow you to trim an edit point. These tools and techniques allow you to trim more easily and accurately, reducing the number of steps involved and
maintaining the integrity of the sequence.
In Premiere Pro CS6, you can perform trimming tasks to selected edit points of a clip, or selected edit points from multiple clips. There are new
icons for the tools, and when selecting edits with trim tools, the edit point is highlighted with a color related to the trim you perform.
You can use keyboard shortcuts on selected edit points to trim clips in the timeline. Trimming in Premiere Pro CS6 has a keyboard driven
workflow, as there are keyboard shortcuts for every trimming task. See
In Premiere Pro CS6, you can use Trim Mode to help you dynamically trim edit points using buttons, or keyboard shortcuts. You can use the J-K-L
keys to dynamically trim clips. See
. In previous versions of Premiere Pro, most of this work was done in the Trim
Monitor. Although it is still available in Premiere Pro CS6, use trim mode instead.
You can trim clips in the Speech Analysis pane of the Metadata panel, setting In points and Out points on selected spoken words.
There are many keyboard shortcuts available for the job of trimming, however, a number of them aren't set by default. Go to Edit > Keyboard
Shortcuts (Windows) or Premiere Pro > Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac OS) to set trimming shortcuts.
Working with audio clips in the Source Monitor
You can work with audio clips, and audio from audio and video clips in the Source Monitor. You can view audio waveforms, scrub audio
waveforms, and zoom in and out on audio waveforms.
View audio waveforms
When opening an audio clip in the Source Monitor, audio waveforms appear automatically. When opening an audio and video clip in the Source
Monitor, you can also view audio waveforms.
To view audio waveforms in an audio and video clip, choose Audio Waveforms from the monitor's panel menu.
In Premiere Pro CS6, you can view the audio waveforms for clips containing multiple audio channels when opening them in the Source Monitor.
Scrub the audio waveform in the Source Monitor
In the Source Monitor, drag to the left or right anywhere on the waveform.
The playhead appears where you click and the audio clip is played, forward or backward, at the speed at which you drag across, or scrub,
the clip.
Zoom in or out on an audio waveform in the Source Monitor
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