Editing sequences and clips

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

Working with In and Out points

Setting a clip’s In and Out points is a process called trimming. You define the first frame you want to include in a sequence by marking that frame as the clip’s In point. Then you define the last frame you want to include by marking it as the Out point.

You can set In and Out points for a clip in the Source Monitor. After a clip is in a sequence, you can trim a clip’s In or Out point by dragging its edge. Several specialized tools and techniques allow you to trim multiple edges at once, reducing the number of steps involved and maintaining the integrity of the sequence.

You can perform trimming tasks to a range of selected clips or grouped clips just as you would a single clip. The range or group acts as a single clip; you can trim its outer edges (the In point of the first clip and the Out point of the last clip), but not the interior edges (the In and Out points of each clip in the selected range or group).

To fine-tune trim edits in a sequence, you can open the Trim Monitor. The Trim Monitor’s layout is similar to the Source and Program Monitors, but the Trim Monitor controls are optimized for precisely adjusting a cut point between clips in a sequence.

You can trim clips in the Speech Analysis pane of the Metadata panel, setting In points and Out points on selected spoken words.

Similarly, you can set sequence In and Out points in the Program Monitor for adding clips to a sequence. Though they serve different purposes, controls for setting and cueing In and Out points work the same in both monitors. (See Set or remove sequence In and Out points.)

Scrub the waveform in the Source Monitor

In the Source Monitor, drag to the left or right anywhere on the waveform.

The current-time indicator appears where you click and the audio clip is played, forward or backward, at the speed at which you drag across, or scrub, the clip.

Zoom in or out on a waveform in the Source Monitor

You can zoom into an audio waveform in the Source Monitor to better identify locations for markers, In points, or Out points.

1Double-click an audio clip in the Project panel to open it in the Source Monitor.

2To zoom in horizontally, drag either end of the horizontal zoom bar that runs above the time bar in the Source Monitor.

The waveform of all channels, and the time bar, will expand or contract horizontally.

3 To zoom in vertically, do one of the following:

•To zoom in on a single channel, drag either end of the vertical zoom bar that runs next to the decibel ruler on the right side of the Source Monitor.

•To zoom in on all channels simultaneously, Shift-drag either end of the vertical zoom bar that runs next to the decibel ruler on the right side of the Source Monitor.

The waveform of one or all channels, and the decibel ruler, will expand or contract vertically.

Last updated 1/16/2012