Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 126)

121 USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Editing clips
Last updated 8/12/2010
3 Drag the edge 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.
Note: You cannot drag the In point of a clip to the left past the edge of an adjacent clip.
Remove frames from the middle of a clip in the Timeline
You can retain content at the beginning and end of a clip for your movie and remove content from its middle. Split the
clip before the unwanted section begins, and then trim the unwanted material from the beginning of the second clip
resulting from the split.
1 In the Timeline, drag the current-time indicator to the frame where the unwanted section of a clip begins.
The frame appears in the Monitor panel.
2 In the Monitor panel, click the Split Clip button .
This splits the clip at the point selected.
3 Click the Selection tool .
4 Double-click the clip to the right of the split. This opens the clip in the Preview window.
Note: You can also open the clip to the left and make the following edits by setting a new Out point.
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 Timeline, leaving a gap between it and the clip before.
Clip is split (top), In point is set (middle), Resulting gap (bottom)