Trimming clips – Adobe Premiere Elements 12 User Manual
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Trimming clips
About trimming and retrieving clips
About Smart trimming
Trim a clip from the Quick view timeline
Trim in the Expert view timeline
Trim in the Preview window
About trimming and retrieving clips
When you build a movie, you rarely use an entire clip. To define the frames you want to use, set In and Out points. The In point is the first frame
of the clip you want to use. The Out point is the last frame of the clip you want to use.
Setting In and Out points does not delete frames from the hard drive. Instead, it isolates the portion you want included in the movie. In and Out
points act like a window over the clip, showing only the frames from the In point to the Out point. You can move In and Out points as needed to
regain any frames you might have trimmed.
In and Out points serve as a window over a clip
A. In point B. Trimmed frames C. Out point
You can trim frames from either end of a clip. To trim frames from the middle of a clip, first split the clip (which creates two parts of the original
clip). Then, trim the unwanted frames from the end of the first new clip or the beginning of the second.
You can trim a clip in the Preview window, the Monitor panel, the Quick view timeline, or the Expert view timeline. You can retrieve frames from
source clips (clips not yet placed in the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline) using the Preview window. You can retrieve frames from
clips in the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline.
About Smart trimming
You can create a refined good-quality video file by removing unwanted sections. Adobe Premiere Elements 11 enables you to efficiently handle
blurred, shaky, and unwanted low-quality and low- interest sections of your video file. You can easily and quickly edit and fine-tune the video files.
Smart trimming enables you to trim the low-quality sections of a video file. Smart trim can be done manually and automatically. You can trim clips
from the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline.
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