Operation Manual

Adobe Premiere Elements 9 guide

Editing clips on the Timeline

You can remove or regain trimmed frames from either end of a clip by dragging the clip’s edge in the Timeline. To

help you locate the precise frame you want, the Monitor panel displays the frame at the changing In or Out point of

the clip as you drag. If a clip has another clip immediately adjacent to the edge you’re trimming, the Monitor panel

displays the frames of both clips side-by-side. The frame on the left (the Out point) is earlier in time, and the frame

on the right (the In point) is later in time. Subsequent clips in the Timeline shift as you drag the clip’s edge. When

you are trimming frames, empty space adjacent to the trimmed edge shifts in time just as a clip would.

A pop-up window displays the amount of time you are trimming as you trim them (Figure 15). This window

displays a negative value if you drag the edge toward the beginning of the movie and a positive number if you drag

toward the end of the movie.

Figure 15 Timeline during trimming

For linked clips (video that includes a soundtrack), dragging the edge of one clip changes the In or Out points of

both clips. Sometimes you want to trim linked clips independently to create split edits (also known as L-cuts and

J-cuts). Pressing Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) when you trim allows you to set the In and Out points of the

video and audio separately.

To trim clips in the Timeline:

1. In the My Project panel, click Timeline.

2. Click the Selection tool.

Note: To trim only one clip of a linked pair, Alt-select

the clip to temporarily unlink them. Select them again to

move them as a unit.

3. Position the pointer over the edge of the clip you want to

trim until the correct icon appears:

 Trim-In icon to trim the beginning of a clip

(Figure 16)

 Trim-Out icon to trim the end of a clip

4. Drag the edge to the desired frame.

Notice that the Monitor panel displays the frames as you

drag, also showing the frame from the adjacent clip

(Figure 17). Subsequent clips in the track shift in time

to compensate for the edit, but their durations remain

unchanged.

Note: You cannot drag the In point of a clip to the left

past the edge of an adjacent clip.

Figure 16 Trim-In icon indicates trimming from

the beginning of a clip

Figure 17 Adjacent frame and trimmed frames are

both visible in Monitor to help with trimming