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Chapter 1 ✦ Premiere Quickstart
then appears in the Timeline as an icon. The duration of the clip or graphic is repre-
sented by the length of the clip in the Timeline.
Arranging clips in the Timeline
You’ll spend a great deal of time positioning clips in the Timeline while editing your
production. Premiere’s Selection and Range Select tools help you assemble your
program’s clips in the order you want.
Here’s how to work select and move clips:
✦ Single clip. Click the Selection tool (the arrow icon in the upper-left corner of
the Timeline). Next, click in the middle of the clip in the Timeline. To quickly
activate the Selection tool, press V on your keyboard. With the clip selected,
click and drag it to the desired location.
✦ Multiple clips. Click the Range Select tool (the empty dotted-line square icon
in the toolbox location to the right of the Selection tool in the toolbox). Next,
click and drag over the clips that you want to select. Press M to cycle through
the Selection tools to select the Range Select tool using your keyboard.
Figure 1-6 displays the Timeline window for the Nite Out project. The Title appears in
the Video 2 track. We put it here because it enables us to create a transparency effect
in which we fade in the title text over background video. The Walkers video clip
appears in track Video 1A. Notice that the next clip (the Diners clip) appears in the
Video 1B track. These two tracks are used to help show transitions that include ele-
ments from tracks Video 1A and Video 1B. Between the two tracks is a transition track
to which transitions are dragged from the Transitions palette. The project also ends
with a transition to a scene of chefs working in a kitchen, before the final title appears.
Figure 1-6: The Timeline window with the items for the Nite Out
video clip
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