Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 7 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK 105

6 Hover the pointer over the right edge of Elephant.avi in the Timeline.  e

pointer changes to a two-headed drag pointer (

). Drag the pointer to the left

until you reach the current-time indicator. Notice that your Monitor panel has

changed to a split screen.

7 Release the pointer when the drag pointer is aligned with the current-time

indicator at 00;00;07;19. Click the Elephant.avi clip again in the Timeline, and

then press the spacebar to play. Notice your new edit point at the end of the

fi rst clip, and that you’ve trimmed away the black frames.

Using the Split Clip tool

 e Split Clip tool allows you to cut single clips into multiple clips.  is can come

in handy when you want to split a long captured clip into separate clips, as you’ll do

in this exercise.

1 Press the Home key, then press the Page Dn key eight times, which should take

you to the start of LunchTime.avi, and then press the spacebar to play the clip.

 ere are some interesting sections in here, but it’s clearly too long to leave

as is.

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Note: This is an

Adobe Premiere

Elements behavior

worth understanding.

The left side of the

screen is showing the

last frame of the clip

you are shortening. It

will start out black and

then show the elephant

statue once you’re

reached the current-

time indicator. The right

side of the split screen

shows the fi rst frame of

the next clip. This frame

will not change because

you’re not trimming this

clip. Essentially, this split

screen is a preview of

what your

edit line will

look like after you’ve

trimmed the fi rst clip.

106 LESSON 5 Editing Video

2 Use the Zoom In button ( ) at the top of the Timeline to magnify your view,

and then click and drag the scroll bar at the bottom of the Timeline to roughly

center LunchTime.avi in the Timeline.

3 Drag the current-time indicator to the 00;00;59;59 mark, which marks the end

of the fi rst usable portion.

4 To split the clip at the position of the current-time indicator, click the Split Clip

button (

), located near the right end of the Monitor panel, just below the

mini-timeline. You might have to expand the Monitor panel to its full width in

order to see this icon. Or, choose Timeline > Split Clip.

5 Next, drag the current-time indicator to the following points and and split the

clip at each point as you reach it in turn:

• 00;01;23;00 (close-up of burger)

• 00;01;25;15 (end burger close-up)

• 00;01;37;00 (about to put top on burger bun)

6 You’ve now divided LunchTime.avi into fi ve clips. Let’s delete the second and

fourth clips.