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Work in the trim monitor – Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 User Manual

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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
outgoing clip to the left of the edit point, and the right monitor shows the incoming clip to the right of it.

Open or close the Trim Monitor

To open the Trim Monitor, select Window > Trim Monitor.

To open the Trim Monitor, press the T key.

When you press the T key or use the menu command to open the Trim Monitor, the nearest edit is selected and the panel opens at the
same time.

To close the Trim Monitor, click the close box

of the Trim Monitor.

The keyboard shortcut "T" in Premiere Pro CS6 launches trim mode instead 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 Select Video Or Audio Track button and select the track you want to edit.

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 are 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).

Make a rolling edit using the Trim Monitor

1. In the Trim Monitor, click the Select Video Or Audio Track button and select the track you want to edit.

2. Click in the Sync Lock box in the header of any track you want to shift when the rolling edit is made.

3. In a Timeline, place the playhead at the edit point. This will display the edit point in the Trim Monitor.

4. Do any of the following:

Position the pointer between the video images so that it changes into the Rolling Edit tool

; then drag left or right.

Drag the center timecode display left or right.

Drag the center jog disk left or right.

Click the timecode display between the views, type a valid timecode number to trim the edges of both clips to that frame, and press
Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS).

Select the boxed number above the center jog disk, type a negative number to trim both clips left or type a positive number to trim both
clips right, and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS).

Click the button that corresponds with the number of frames you want to edit. The –1 and –5 buttons trim both clips left; +1 and +5 trim
both clips right.

The large trim offset number is 5 frames by default, but you can set it to any number by specifying a number in the trim preferences.

Choose Edit > Preferences > Trim (Windows) or Premiere Pro > Preferences > Trim (Mac OS).

Make a ripple edit using the Trim Monitor

1. In the Trim Monitor, click the Select Video Or Audio Track button and select the track you want to edit.

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