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cutting video/audio and closing remaing gap
Hi,
Sorry if this is an easy question, but I can’t work it out 🙁
After transferring my video from my camera onto the pc I consecutively drag and drop all the video into adobe premiere cs5. From there, I work through it cutting out what I don’t want. This leaves a gap in the footage everywhere I cut which I then need to manually re-join.
My question is; is there a way to set premiere so it closes the gaps automatically after I cut a part out or do I have to continue to manually pull the remaining video back to close the gap (very tedious)?
Thanks,
Markus
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9 Replies
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Ever try right clicking the gap (command-click on Mac I believe) and selecting Ripple Delete?
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What you are referring to is called lift and extract. Basically you are lifting when you want to be extracting.
This is done by setting the in point at the start of what you want to cut out and set the out point at the end of the section you want to remove. Then hit the short cut for extract. “;” is the shortcut key. What this does is lift up the marked section and closed the gap created. Effectively lift just lifts out the marked section and leaves the gap. The shortcut for lift is “:”
This is how pro editors cut on the timeline. It’s way faster.
– JB
Jon Barrie
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Good recommendation JB… extract always slips my mind. I even avoid Ripple Delete, I have too much going on with my audio and foley tracks to rely on anything but manual shifting. Probably an error in thinking in my own workflow.
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Fantastic, I assumed there must have been a way 🙂
Thank you very much, you’ve saved me many hours.
Regards,
Markus
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you can always lock tracks and they aren’t affected, but this process is usually used at the 1st pass and 2nd pass stages before a mix is being put in place. Everyone works a bit differently 🙂
– JB
Jon Barrie
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If you hold the ctrl key while you trim an edit, no gap will be created in the first place.
don’t know how that will affect your foley trax.
sort of surprised you’ve already place foley elements in if you’ve not yet reached picture lock, but to each his own. 🙂
Alex
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Hi Markus,
Seems the cutting is resolved, but at the beginning you mentioned that you “consecutively” drag video clips to the timeline. Do you mean one at a time? Just wanted to make cure you are aware that you can multi-select a group of clips and move them all the timeline at once, or also use “automate to timeline”.
Jeff Pulera
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Alex, I just think my workflow is adulterated by the fact that a lot of my work is short-notice or have tight deadlines, and clients like to “see things along the way”. I’m sure you’re aware people get weird about seeing stuff in “draft” without at least some sound.
It is what it is, but I’ve been trying to streamline things.
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Superb. Works well.
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