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Trimming an “L” edit in Premiere Pro
We have begun to use PP CS5 in our workflow, along side our Avid and FCP workstations, and have already in a very short time seen an increase in our workflow speed, efficiency, and productivity. There are still however a few little things that I am so used to being able to do easily on an Avid that have me fumbling a bit in PPro. For example, a lot of my edits involve “L” edits, where there may be 3, 4 or even more video clips running on top of the “L”. In other words, the audio below is extended forward under several video clips above. Now, let’s say I need to shorted first of those clips, and still keep everything forward, including the audio, in sync. On my Avid, I would simply enter trim, set one roller at the end of the video clip, and one roller ahead in the timeline at the end of the audio clip (the tale of the ‘L”). Then, I would just ripple trim back (using j-k-l), and both video and audio would ripple delete exactly the same and hold sync.
Now, in PPro, I find I need to first do a trim back of the video leaving a gap, then go to the end of the audio and trim back the exact # of frames and leave a gap, and then right click on the video gap and select close the gap – which will also close the audio gap. Obviously a lot more steps and more tedious than simply doing it in a single trim operation.
Is there a better/more efficient way to trim clips clips in PPro where the video and audio cuts points are offset on the timeline? Maybe a better way using a tool or technique that I am overlooking?
Regards,
Michael
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3 Replies
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Hold the ALT (which will select only the video or the audio portion of the clip )and use the Rolling Edit Tool (N), see if that helps.
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Yup, that’s exactly what I do when I need to perform a roll trim, but in my example I was looking for a way to ripple the video clip to a shorter duration, without moving the in-point back of the following shot as in a roll trim.
Thanks for the suggestion!
-mw
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There are several ways to work with your scenario.
Marquee select across all clips that require the trim and then hold the ctl (PC) or cmd (mac) to make the selection arrow become the ripple tool. Position the playhead at Tue point you want to trim to. Use the ripple tool to pull one of the selected clips to snap at the playhead. The entire selection will ripple.
Another way would be to select everything after the position. Then use the shift selection shortcut to move the selection along and see the edit point ripple in or our depending on the way you move the selection.
A key for track select tool. Hold shift. It becomes two arrows. Left mouse click to select clips in all tracks from arrow head on. Use combo of alt and left or right arrow key to move the selection. 1 frame at a time. If you hold shift too it will move in 5 frame increments.
Hope it makes sense. I might make a tutorial on it. 🙂
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