Operation Manual

Adobe Premiere Elements 9 guide

About splitting clips

At times you may want to apply different effects to different parts of a clip. For example, you may want to speed up

the first part of it while leaving the second part at normal speed. To do this, you cut a clip into separate pieces and

then apply effects and transitions to those pieces. You can split a clip in a movie by using the Split Clip tool to cut

one or more selected clips at the current-time indicator.

Splitting a clip creates a new and separate instance of the original clip and, if linked to another clip, a new instance

of the linked clip as well. The resulting clips are full versions of the original clip but with the In or Out point

changed to match the location marked by the tool (Figure 21). You can select and delete these clips.

Note: If you want to change effect settings over time, you don’t have to split the clip. You can apply keyframes to a

single clip instead.

Figure 21 Timeline view showing split Clip tool before (left) and after (right)

cuts selected clips at the current-time indicator

Splitting a clip

You can split a clip at any frame, creating one clip that ends and another that begins at that frame. You can edit the

two resulting clips as you would any other clips.

To split a clip:

1. In the My Project panel, click either Sceneline or

Timeline and select a clip in the Sceneline or the

Timeline.

The clip selected appears in the Monitor panel.

2. Do one of the following:

 If you chose Sceneline, drag the current-time

indicator in the Monitor to the frame where you

want to create the split (Figure 22).

 If you chose Timeline, drag the current-time

indicator in the Timeline to the frame where you

want to create the split.

3. In the Monitor, click the Split Clip tool.

Two new clips take the place of the original clip in the

My Project panel, one ending and one beginning at the

location of the current-time indicator.

Figure 22 In the Sceneline view, drag the current-

time indicator in the Monitor

Split Clip tool