There are multiple ways that you can trim and cut your clips inside of premiere pro.
Not one way is better than the other all that matters is which method works best for you
so let's go ahead and see how they work in this tutorial
Hey everyone! Kelsey here and welcome back to Gal. Today i'm showing you six different ways
that you can trim and cut your clips inside of premiere pro I'm going to be starting by showing
you how to use the basic razor cut tool to make a simple cut then i'll move on to the selection tool
showing you how to trim in and trim out with your mouse as well as how to use the ripple edit tool
and then a really cool rolling edit tool to move your edit points and then some more advanced
techniques such as slip and slide edits as well as top tail editing so you're gonna walk away
with a bunch of different techniques that you can start applying to your next video edit also a huge
thanks to Oslo for sponsoring today's video Oslo is a fantastic video review and collaboration tool
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for sponsoring and now let's go ahead and jump into method number one. So up first is the razor
cut tool to make a basic cut press c on your keyboard to activate the razor tool you can move
your playhead to the exact location you want to cut and then you can just click on this line here
and it will create a cut which will splice the clip into two you can then press v to go back to
the selection tool and then you can select the excess clip that you don't want and delete it
you'll see here that there's now a gap that you can select and you need to delete that gap
but to save time you don't have to do this extra delete of the gap you can actually press the alt
key on a pc or the option key on a mac and then press delete and this will ripple delete the gap
for you if you have multiple clips that are stacked on top of each other and you want
to cut all of them at the same time at the same location what you can do is hold the shift key and
then click and it will cut all of them at the same time and then you can just hit the alt key on a pc
or the option key on a mac and press delete and delete all the excess clips and you're good to
go so now let's move on to the selection tool for doing trim ends and trim outs the selection tool
is the default tool that premiere pro will default to when you're working in the timeline if you're
on another tool you can just press the v key on your keyboard to go back to the selection tool
with the selection tool selected you can simply click on edit point and you will see that this
icon will be red and this is the trim icon from here you can drag it to the left to trim it in or
you can drag it to the right to trim it out it's important to note that in order to pull a clip out
to extend the edit there needs to be more footage there if you pull it out and it stops that means
it's the end of the clip it's completely maxed out if you want the trim to hit an exact location
this is where you can make sure that the snapping is turned on just by clicking on the little
magnetic icon if it's blue that means that it's on then you can move the playhead to wherever you
want the trim to be and then you can drag that trim out to meet the playhead and it will snap
to the playhead so the selection tool is really easy to do simple trim ends and trim out but if
you're working with lots of different clips in your timeline it will leave a gap so in order to
get rid of those gaps this is where you can use the ripple edit tool which is the next method
to use the ripple edit tool press b on your keyboard and then when you hover on the end
of the clip instead of it being red like with the selection tool it's going to be yellow this time
in here you can ripple in by clicking and dragging the end of the clip to the left
to ripple out you can click and drag the end of the clip to the right you'll see that the other
clips in the timeline move with the edits so that way you don't have to worry about the gaps
you see as I did this that the clips seamlessly move together closing the gaps ripple
editing in so you don't have to worry about creating gaps when you're trimming your clips
the rolling edit is one of my favorite tools because it allows me to change the edit point
between two clips and move it to any location without changing the duration of those clips
so let me show you how it works press n on your keyboard to activate the rolling edit tool then
you can click on the edit point and move it either to the left or to the right to change the location
of the in and out points of the source video and this does not affect the duration of the clips
in the timeline so it's a really cool tool to use if you just need to move this edit point over
to reveal a little bit more of that clip to the right it's just a quick way of making an edit and
not having to go through and move and change and change the duration of your video at all it stays
the same so before we go into the slip and slide edits here's a little bit about today's sponsor
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think and thank you oslo for sponsoring and now let's get into the slip in slide editing tools
so you might be wondering what's the difference between the ripple and the slip and slide so the
ripple edit tool is great for changing one edit point between two clips the slip and slide tools
are great for changing two cuts in a sequence of three different clips so let me show you how
it works so here i have three clips if i want to adjust the in and out points of the center clip
i can press y on my keyboard to bring up the slip tool now when i click and hold on the center clip
and drag to move to the left you can see from the program monitor that it adjusts the clip's
source in and out points later in time so the cool part here is that while you're moving the
source in and out points of the center clip the adjacent clips are not affected at all and also
to note the actual duration of the full video is not affected while you're changing the center in
and out points you're not changing the duration of all of these three clips in the timeline itself it
remains the same so the slide edit however is the exact opposite of the slip tool the slide
edit will actually change the in and out points of the adjacent clips not the center but you're still
clicking and adjusting the center to use it so let me show you how it works so you're going to press
the u key to activate the slide tool and then when you click on the center clip and drag to the left
it'll move the edit of the left clip to an earlier time and the same to the adjacent right clip so
if you go and look in the program monitor as you move to the left you can see that the in and out
time codes of both adjacent clips are moving to an earlier time code now if you drag to the right
you will see that the source time codes are actually moving to a later time and just like
before after we finish you'll see that the final video still has the same duration all we did
was adjust the starting and end points of the two adjacent clips so when might you use the slip and
slide tool so the slip n slide tool isn't really designed to help you edit a rough cut quickly it's
really designed to be used when you're nearly done with your edit and you just need to make
a few refinements to a sequence just by moving one of the in and out points of one of these
clips whether it's the center clip or the two adjacent clips so you know you can try it out to
see if it's useful it's not necessary to do it but it does save you the extra clips of having
to move clips over shift a bunch of clips over and have to realign them it's just a quick way to
leave everything as is and just quickly move those in and out points so now how about editing without
a mouse top tail editing is a technique where you can edit without using your mouse you just use
keyboard shortcuts on your keyboard so how does it work to start you need to be able to move in your
timeline right so this is where you use the jkl keys you press l to move forward in your timeline
you press k to pause to stop and you can press j to rewind so now that you know how to move in the
timeline now you need to know how to make those cuts and this is used with the q and w keys the
cue is trimming off the top end of a clip and the w by pressing it will trim off the tail end of
the clip so if you press l on your keyboard it'll move forward and then you can press w to trim off
the tail end of the clip that you're on as you're moving through the timeline
and let's say you want to rewind then you can press q to trim off the top end of the clip
so you just repeat those motions and quickly go through your edit to refine it so if you want to
master this top tail editing method i made a full in-depth look at how it works you can watch that
tutorial it's up here in a card you can click on it and try it out so all of these methods you can
use some of them you may use more than others but the key is that in some cases it's better to use a
certain technique for example if you have multiple clips in your timeline instead of using the
selection tool which creates gaps when you trim you can use the ripple edit tool instead if you're
looking for more inspiration like how to do more creative cuts like is done in Hollywood films and
in commercials i did make a full video analyzing seven different creative editing techniques that
you can use such as the smash cut which is super cool so if this video helped you out be sure to
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