Editing sequences and clips

Make a ripple edit using the Trim Monitor

1In the Trim Monitor, click the Select Video Or Audio Track button and select the track you want to edit.

2Click in the Sync Lock box in the header of any track you want to shift when the ripple edit is made.

3In a Timeline, place the current-time indicator at the edit point. This will display the edit point in the Trim Monitor.

4Do any of the following:

•Position the pointer in the left or right image so that it becomes the Trim-out icon or Trim-in icon respectively, and drag left or right to ripple-edit the corresponding clip.

•Drag the timecode display under the left or right image to trim the corresponding clip.

•Drag the left or right jog disk to trim the corresponding clip.

•Drag the Outgoing Out Point icon in the left view’s time ruler, or drag the Incoming In Point icon in the right view’s time ruler.

•Drag the Out Shift or In Shift timecode number left or right to ripple-edit the corresponding clip.

•Click the left clip’s timecode display (for the left clip’s Out point) or the right clip’s timecode display (for the right clip’s In point), type a valid timecode number to trim the corresponding clip to that frame, and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS).

•Click the Out Shift display (for the left clip’s Out point) or the In Shift display (for the right clip’s In point), type a negative number (to trim left) or a positive number (to trim right), and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS).

Franklin McMahon shows Ripple Edit, Rolling Edit, Slip, and Slide tools in this video on the Layers Magazine website.

Make slip and slide edits

Just as ripple and rolling edits allow you to adjust a cut between two clips, slip and slide edits are useful when you want to adjust two cuts in a sequence of three clips. When you use the Slip or Slide tool, the Program Monitor displays the four frames involved in the edit side by side, except when editing audio only.

Program Monitor and Timeline during a slide edit

Though Slip and Slide tools are typically employed on the center of three adjacent clips, each tool functions normally even if the clip is adjacent to a clip on one side and blank space on the other.

Last updated 1/16/2012

Editing sequences and clips

Make a slip edit

A slip edit shifts a clip’s In and Out points forward or backward by the same number of frames in a single action. By dragging with the Slip tool, you can change a clip’s starting and ending frames without changing its duration or affecting adjacent clips.

Franklin McMahon shows Ripple Edit, Rolling Edit, Slip, and Slide tools in this video on the Layers Magazine website.

Andrew Devis demonstrates the slip and slide tools and gives a simple way to remember which is which in this video on the Creative COW website.

For more information about slipping and sliding clips, see this excerpt from An Editor's Guide to Premiere Pro by Richard Harrington, Robbie Carman and Jeff Greenberg.

In this slip edit, a clip is dragged left, moving its source In and Out points later in time.

1Select the Slip tool .

2Position the pointer on the clip you want to adjust, and drag left to move the In and Out points later in the clip, or drag right to move the In and Out points earlier in the clip.

Premiere Pro updates the source In and Out points for the clip, displaying the result in the Program Monitor and maintaining the clip and sequence duration.

Make a slide edit

A slide edit shifts a clip in time while trimming adjacent clips to compensate for the move. As you drag a clip left or right with the Slide tool, the Out point of the preceding clip and the In point of the following clip are trimmed by the number of frames you move the clip. The clip’s In and Out points (and hence, its duration) remain unchanged.

In this slide edit, a clip is dragged left so that it starts earlier in the sequence, shortening the preceding clip and lengthening the following clip.

1Select the Slide tool .

2Position the pointer on the clip you want to adjust, and drag left to move the Out point of the preceding clip and the In point of the following clip earlier in time, or drag right to move the Out point of the preceding clip and the In point of the following clip later in time.

When you release the mouse button, Premiere Pro updates the In and Out points for the adjacent clips, displaying the result in the Program Monitor and maintaining the clip and sequence duration. The only change to the clip you moved is its position in the sequence.

Last updated 1/16/2012