Adobe Premiere Elements 12 - Manual (Page 100)

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Access Smart Trim options
To access the Smart Trim options, enable Smart Trim and do one of the following:
Click the Smart Trim Options button on the top of the Monitor panel.
Right-click/ctrl-click a trimmable selection, and select Smart Trim Options.
Trim a clip from the Quick view timeline
You can directly trim clips in the Quick view timeline.
1. Select the clip in the Quick view timeline.
2. Position the pointer over the edge of the clip you want to trim until the correct icon appears:
Trim-In icon to trim the beginning of a clip.
Trim-Out icon to trim the end of a clip.
3. Drag the trim handles to the desired frame. The Monitor panel displays the frames as you drag, also showing the frame from the adjacent
clip (if any). Subsequent clips in the track shift in time to compensate for the edit, but their durations remain unchanged
Remove frames from the middle of a clip
You can retain material at the beginning and end of a clip for your movie, but remove material from its middle. Split the clip right before the
unwanted section begins, to create two clips. Then, trim the unwanted material from the beginning of the second clip.
1. In the Quick view timeline, select the clip containing unwanted material. The clip appears in the Monitor panel.
2. Drag the current-time indicator on the Quick view timeline to the frame where the unwanted material begins.
3. Click the Scissor button on the current-time indicator.
The original clip is split into two clips in the Quick view timeline.
4. Double-click the clip to the right of the split. This opens the clip in the Preview window.
5. In the Preview window, drag the current-time indicator to the frame just after the last frame of unwanted material,
6. Click the Set In Point button. This trims the unwanted material from the beginning of the second clip and shortens the clip in the Quick view
timeline, leaving a gap between it and the clip before.
The unwanted material is removed from the beginning of the second clip (or end of the first clip, if you chose to edit that clip). The gap
created between the first and second clips is automatically closed.
7. Right-click/ctrl-click in the gap in the Quick view timeline, and then click Delete And Close Gap.
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