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Trim with the current-time indicator – Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 User Manual

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Trimming a clip

Trimming in this way affects only a single clip edge and doesn’t affect adjacent clips. To trim multiple edges at once
or to shift adjacent clips, see

Perform rolling and ripple edits

” on page 111 and

Perform slip and slide edits

” on

page 113.

Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) as you drag using the Selection tool to switch to the Ripple Edit tool.

Trim with the current-time indicator

You can set the In Point or Out Point of a clip in a sequence to the location of the current-time indicator, sometimes
called an extend edit, if you first map two keyboard commands.

Set keyboard commands to trim with the current-time indicator

1

Select Edit >

Keyboard

Customization.

2

Select [Custom] from the Set drop-down menu.

3

Select Application from the drop-down menu of keyboard command types.

4

Scroll down to Trim In Point To CTI and select it.

5

Click the Shortcut area to the right of the name of the command, and type a keyboard shortcut in the white space

that appears.

6

Scroll down to Trim Out Point To CTI and select it.

7

Click the Shortcut area to the right of the name of the command, and type a keyboard shortcut in the white space

that appears.

8

Click OK.

Set In and Out Points with the current-time indicator

1

Click the track head, in the area near the track title, of the track containing the clip you want to trim.

2

Select the clip you want to trim.

3

Drag the current-time indicator to the place where you want to set the In Point or Out Point of the clip.

4

Press the keyboard command you assigned to Trim In Point To CTI or Trim Out Point To CTI.

April 1, 2008