USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO

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Editing sequences and clips

•Use any of the standard editing tools to make changes in a Timeline panel.

•Place the current-time indicator at the place in a Timeline where you want to replace a clip from one camera with a clip from another. In the Multi-Camera Monitor, select the replacing camera preview.

Insert or overwrite clips in a multi-camera sequence

You can make edits to a multi-camera sequence from the original four camera clips. For example, if one camera recorded a presenter and another recorded a screen of presentation slides, you can intersperse shots of the presentation slides. You can use this technique as an alternative to rerecording sections of the multi-camera sequence.

1Double-click the multi-camera target sequence in a Timeline panel to open it in the Source Monitor. Like the Multi-Camera Monitor, the Source Monitor displays footage previews of the original camera shots.

2Click the display for the footage you want to add to the sequence. The active display has a yellow border.

3Choose the clip source that you want to edit (video, audio, or both) and drag the clip to a Timeline panel, or use the Insert or Overwrite buttons in the Source Monitor.

Creating and playing clips

In Premiere Pro, you create clips by importing files, duplicating clips, or making subclips. You create a clip instance by using a clip in a sequence.

Source clips, clip instances, subclips, and duplicate clips

In Premiere Pro, a clip points to a source file. Trimming a clip, or editing it in any way, does not affect the source file. For example, if you import a 30-minute file into Premiere Pro, you create a 30-minute clip that points to that source file. If you trim the clip to a five-minute duration, the 30-minute source file remains on your hard disk, but the clip refers only to a five-minute section of it. Premiere Pro stores information about clips in clip metadata fields in project files, but stores information about source files in XMP metadata fields.

You can trim source clips, clip instances, subclips, or duplicate clips. You can trim all types of clips in sequences in much the same way. The clip types differ in the following ways:

Source (master) clip The clip originally imported into the Project panel. It is listed in the Project panel only once by default. If you delete a source clip from the Project panel, all of its instances are also deleted.

Clip instance A dependent reference to a source clip, used in a sequence. Each time you add a clip to a sequence, you create another instance of the clip. A clip instance uses the name and source file reference used by its source clip. While clip instances are not listed in the Project panel, they are differentiated in the Source Monitor menu if you open instances there. The Source Monitor menu lists instances by name, sequence name, and In point.

Subclip A section of a master clip that references the master clip’s media file. Use subclips to reference discreet sections of long master clips. (See “Creating subclips” on page 162.)

Duplicate clip An independent copy of a source clip, which you create manually using the Edit > Duplicate command. You can also create a duplicate clip by importing the same file more than once. Unlike a clip instance, a duplicate clip maintains its own reference to the original clip’s source file on disk and exists as an additional clip in the Project panel. Premiere Pro does not delete a duplicate clip when you delete its original from the Project panel. Master and duplicate clips can be renamed independently.

Franklin McMahon explains how to use subclips in this video from Layers Magazine.

Last updated 1/16/2012