User Guide

1 Select the clip.
2 Press the Play button on the thumbnail viewer. The Play button becomes a Stop
button. Press Stop to stop playback. (Playing the clip in the thumbnail viewer does not
affect Monitor window views.)
To designate a clip frame as a poster frame:
1 Select the clip in a Project window.
2 Press the Play button or drag the play slider on the thumbnail viewer in the upper left
corner of the Project window until the frame you want is displayed.
3 Click the Set Poster Frame button
You can also set the poster frame by right-clicking the thumbnail viewer and choosing
Set Poster Frame from the context menu.
Naming, finding, and deleting Project window items
Use the Project window tools to rename, find, and delete items. All media in your project
exist on your hard disk as files stored separately from the project—only a reference to
each file is added to the Project window in Adobe Premiere Pro. Whenever you rename,
edit, or delete a clip in Adobe Premiere Pro, the original file and filename remain
untouched on your hard disk.
Note: When you use the Project > Unlink Media command, you have the option of deleting
the actual source file along with its reference in the project. See “Using offline files” on
page 87.
To rename a clip:
1 Select the clip, and choose Clip > Rename.
2 Type the new name, and press Enter.
You can also rename a selected clip by clicking its name once to select the text, typing
the new name, and pressing Enter. In addition, the Rename command is also available
when you right-click a clip.
To manage project items:
Do any of the following:
• To rename an original source file on disk, exit Adobe Premiere Pro and rename the file
on the Windows desktop. The next time you open the project, Adobe Premiere Pro asks
you to locate the file (see “Opening a project” on page 41).
• To delete an item from the Project window, select the item and press the Delete key.
• To delete all project items that aren’t used in sequences, sort the Project window list
view by the Video Usage or Audio Usage columns to identify unused clips; then select
and delete them.
Note: Because Adobe Premiere Pro doesn’t store actual media files in the project, deleting
a clip from a project removes all of its instances from sequence but does not delete the
clip’s original media file from your hard disk.
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• To find any item in a project or folder, based on the contents of any column in List view,
choose Edit > Find or click the Find button , specify options, and click Find.
Using source clips, clip instances, and duplicate clips
Clips can be used as source clips, clip instances, or duplicate clips. All types of clips can
be
edited in sequences in the same way. The differences between clip types are as follows:
Source clip The clip originally imported into the Project window. It is listed in the Project
window only once by default. If you delete a source clip from the Project window, all of its
instances are also deleted.