Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

102 LESSON 5 Editing Video

1 By default, Adobe Premiere Elements displays all the frames in a video clip.

However, at times you may fi nd you would like to work with fewer visual

distractions in your clip. Click the Set Display Style button (

) to the left of

the Video 1 track to set the display style to Show Head and Tail.  is will show

you the fi rst frame and last frame of all the clips in Video 1.

2 Click the Display Style button again to view the Head Only of the clip.

3 Click the Display Style button again to view the clip by its name only. No

thumbnails will be displayed on the clip.

4 Click the Display Style button one more time to view the default style all of the

frames.

Editing in the Timeline

Editing in the Timeline is very similar to editing in the Sceneline, although sev-

eral controls are in diff erent places. Most notably, the mini-timeline beneath the

Monitor panel moves to the Timeline itself, as does the current-time indicator.

Other than that, all playback controls are identical.

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Beyond the interface issues, most of the basic clip-related operations are also

identical. For example, you add clips to the Timeline the same way you add them

to the Sceneline. You move clips around the same way, and you delete clips the

same way. If you repeat the exercises you’ve already completed in this chapter

using the Timeline rather than Sceneline, you’ll quickly become adept at all of these

operations.

Trimming and splitting clips is also very similar, but because these operations are

so critical to everyday editing, let’s run through them again in the Timeline.

A. Docking header.

B. Preview area.

C. Panel menu.

D. Current Time.

E. Time ruler.

F. Playback controls.

G. Current-Time

Indicator.

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Trimming clips in the Timeline

Every clip has a beginning and an end. In editing terminology these are referred to

as the In points and Out points, as described earlier in this lesson. Setting In and

Out points does not actually delete frames from the hard disk, but instead isolates a

portion of the clip for use in your movie. When you trim a clip in Adobe Premiere

Elements you are simply changing the In and Out points.

1 Press the Home key to move the current-time indicator to the fi rst frame of the

project.

2 Press the Page Dn key to move to the start of Elephant.avi, the second clip in

the Timeline, and then press the spacebar to play the clip. As you’ll see, about

halfway through the clip, the video goes black.  ese are the frames you’ll trim

away.

3 Click the Zoom In button (

) at the top of the Timeline to magnify your view.

Trimming in the Timeline is easier when you’re zoomed into the clip. Zooming

in and out to make these adjustments will feel awkward at fi rst, but will quickly

become second nature.

4 Click and drag the scroll bar at the bottom of the Timeline to move the

elephant.avi clip beneath the Monitor panel.

5 Watching the current timecode in the bottom left of the Monitor panel, drag

the current-time indicator to the 00;00;07;19 mark.