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USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Editing clips
Last updated 8/12/2010
About Smart trimming
You can create a refined good-quality video file by removing unwanted sections and low-quality sections.
Adobe®
Premiere®
Elements
8 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 Timeline view or Sceneline view. However, you can trim only one clip at a time from the Sceneline
view. Smart trimming is of two types, manual and automatic. Manual Smart trimming is the default mode. In this
mode, you can specify the options that determine the trimmable sections. In the automatic Smart trim mode,
Adobe Premiere Elements automatically determines the trimmable sections and you can choose to delete them or
retain them.
Smart Trim
Manual Smart Trim
Smart Trim has two modes, Manual and Automatic. The default mode is Manual mode in which you can trim or delete
the highlighted sections of a clip.
1 To enable Smart Trim, select Timeline > Smart Trim Options. By default, Manual Smart Trim Mode is enabled.
Note: When you are in the manual Smart Trim mode, you see the message, Smart Trim Mode: Trim or Delete The
Highlighted Sections, above the Monitor panel. You also see the Smart Trim Options button.
2 (Optional) In the Smart Trim Options dialog, use the slider to specify the Quality and Interest options. The values
set here determine the trimmable sections. If you do not set the options here, default settings are used. For more
information, see “
3 Click Smart Trim
at the top of the Timeline panel to enable smart trimming.
4 Click Organize and drag the required clips into the Timeline.
Adobe Premiere Elements analyzes the clip, and highlights the sections of the clip that need trimming. The highlighted
sections depend on the values set for the Quality Level and Interest Level options. Striped patterns are used to highlight
the trimmable sections.
Note: To manually analyze the clip before you drag them into the Timeline, right-click the clip, and select Run Auto-
Analyzer. For more information on the Auto-Analyzer feature, see “
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5 (Optional) View the bad-quality tags that Adobe®
Premiere®
Elements
8 applied on the trim sections by hovering
the mouse over the Smart Trim section of the clip.
6 To select trim sections in a clip, do one of the following:
•
Double-click the clip to select all the trimmable sections in a single clip.
•
To select all the trimmable sections in multiple clips, drag a marquee around the selected clips. Right-click the trim
sections, and choose Select All.
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To select all the trimmable sections in multiple clips in the Timeline, select Ctrl-A, and right-click a section > Select All.