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The Trim Window
Until now I’ve never really used the trim window in PPro. I knew about it, but it seemed a bit redundant. I’ve always just trimmed on the timeline and if I needed to do a small, precise trim on a clip, I simply zoomed in close. The only downside to this, though, is after the trim I had to zoom back out and find the scale I was at before. Doing this for multiple clips is a bit of a pain, since all that resizing gets repetitive.
After reading that thread about PPro being used in feature films, I became more curious about it, so on my latest project I decided to try it out. It was a bit confusing at first, because I thought highlighting a clip or clips would bring them up in Trim, and it actually has to do with where the playhead is at. Now that I’ve gotten used to it, though, I really like it. I think it will be a real timesaver that will keep the creative juices flowing, since I won’t have to stop to zoom in and out on the timeline so much.
The only drawback I see so far, is I wish I could use it to precisely do a slip edit…______________________________________________
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I miss 2 things in the trim window:
1) JKL trimming mode like FCP
2) when I play back in trim mode, I wish the time line cursor in the moved in sync with the playback.FYI another approach to doing a slip is to double click a clip in the sequence, thus loading it as an editable object into the source viewer.
then in the time ruler in the source viewer, if you grab the center handle (vert lines) between the in and the out, you can slip the clip and it will update on the the timeline.
Alex Udell
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That source window method for doing slip edits worked really well! I’ll have to remember that.
JKL in the trim window WOULD make things easier. Hopefully in CS6…
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
Here’s some basics about using the trim monitor: https://blogs.adobe.com/kevinmonahan/2011/07/01/keyboard-shortcuts-trimming-with-premiere-pro-cs4-cs5-cs5-5/
Feature requests: https://www.adobe.com/go/wish
Kevin Monahan
Sr. Content and Community Lead
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Systems, Inc.
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