USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO

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Editing sequences and clips

Making split edits

You can create a split edit by temporarily unlinking the video from the audio in adjoining clips, trimming their audio separately from their video, and placing them in a sequence so that the video of one overlaps the audio of the other.

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

More Help topics

“Create split edits” on page 230

Work in the Trim Monitor

The Trim Monitor displays clip In and Out points at a cut so that you can see precisely which frames you are cutting. The left monitor shows the clip to the left of the edit point, and the right monitor shows the clip to the right of it.

Here's a link to the section with the shortcuts for the Trim Monitor panel.

See Andrew Devis' tutorial “Learning the Tools 5: The Trim Monitor” on the Creative COW website.

See Andrew Devis' tutorial “Learning the Tools 1: Trim & Ripple Edit” on the Creative COW website.

Karl Soule shows how to use the Trim Monitor in Adobe Premiere Pro in this video tutorial.

Kevin Monahan explains trimming with keyboard commands in Adobe Premiere Pro in this blog post.

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

This video by Paul Joy shows some of the shortcuts for the Trim Monitor, as well as making it clear that it's what customers want to be taught about.

Open or close the Trim Monitor

•To open the Trim Monitor, select Window > Trim Monitor.

•To open the Trim Monitor, press the T key.

When you press the T key or invoke the menu command to open the Trim Monitor, the nearest edit will be selected and the panel opens at the same time.

•To open the Trim Monitor in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and later, select Sequence > Trim Edit.

•To close the Trim Monitor, click the close box of the Trim Monitor.

Display the edit point you want to trim

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

2In the Trim Monitor, click the Go To Previous Edit Point or Go To Next Edit Point button. Continue clicking until the Trim Monitor displays the frames on either side of the edit point you want to change.

Preview the edit in the Trim Monitor

•To preview the edit once, click the Play Edit button .

•To preview the edit repeatedly, click the Loop button .

Cancel an edit

Press Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Command+Z (Mac OS), or use the History palette.

Last updated 1/16/2012