Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 125)

120 USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Editing clips
Last updated 8/12/2010
To view a different area of the mini-timeline, drag the middle of the zoom control to scroll the mini-timeline right or
left. When zoomed in, you may not see the slider shift position, but you will see the mini-timeline scroll as you drag
right or left.
Trim in the Timeline
You can remove or regain trimmed frames from either end of a clip by dragging the clip’s edge in the Timeline. To
help you locate the precise frame you want, the Monitor panel displays the frame at the changing In or Out point of
the clip as you drag. If another clip is adjacent to the edge you’re trimming, the Monitor panel displays the frames of
both clips side by side. The frame on the left (the Out point) is earlier in time, and the frame on the right (the In point)
is later in time. Subsequent clips, as well as blocks of empty space, in the Timeline shift as you drag the clip’s edge.
A tool tip displays the number of frames you are trimming as you trim them. This window displays a negative value if
you drag the clip’s edge toward the beginning of the movie, and a positive number if you drag toward the end of the
movie. You can tell whether you have trimmed a clip by looking for a small gray triangle in the top corner at either end
of the clip in the Timeline. The triangle indicates you have not trimmed that edge.
The Timeline during (above) and after (below) trimming. The gray triangle in the corner of the clip disappears when you trim.
For linked clips (video that includes a soundtrack), dragging the edge of one clip changes the In or Out points of both
clips. Sometimes you want to trim linked clips independently to create split edits (also known as L-cuts and J-cuts).
Pressing Alt when you trim allows you to set the In and Out points of the video and audio separately.
More Help topics
“ Timeline overview ” on page 90
Trim clips in the Timeline
1 In the Timeline, click the Selection tool .
To trim only one clip of a linked pair, Alt-select the combined clip to temporarily unlink them. Select them again to
move them as a unit.
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.