Premiere - Trimming And Adding Clips To My Timeline

With my sequence and bins all in place I was now able to start trimming and adding some of my clips to the timeline. I began by adding 'The Other Woman' Trailer to the source panel. This can be seen below. To add this I simply dragged the clip from the Project panel over.

From this screen above I was able to trim the full clip into as many smaller clips as I liked. The first seven buttons along the bottom of this screen and the ones which I have used most and all aid the trimming of clips. The first icon is the Mark In button. This allows you to add the marker where you want your trim to start. This point will basically be the start of your sub clip. This button can be seen below. The button next to this is the Mark Out button. This will add a marker to the end of my sub clip. This will be the point where my new clip will end. Again this can be seen below.

So how does this work in practise? Well with the clip running you simply find the point you want your sub clip to start and mark in, then let the clip play until you reach the end of the aspect you are interested in and then mark out. You can make this aspect really accurate however you can adjust it further once it is added on your timeline if it is slightly out. Once you have marked an in and an out point from your source clip the sub clip is then marked as shown below.

 

Once I was happy with my sub clip I was then able to add this to my clips bin which I created earlier. To do this I simply dragged the footage from the Source Panel over into my Clips Bin. From this Bin I was then able to drag the icon over to the timeline and add it to one of the various video layers. This was the process which I followed to create sub clips from all of my source clips. All of these sub clips can be seen in the below screenshot.

From this I was then able to add these clips to my timeline and arrange them in an order which made sense to me. This can be seen below.

The next issue I had was with the audio which accompanies this. Some of the clips I didn't want the audio as it had nothing to do with my trailer. This was mainly in the case of the New York and Paris clips as these had voice overs. To delete the audio but keep the video from a clip I simply clicked on the clip which was concerned and then right clicked and selected the Unlink button. This can be seen below.

This takes one clip and splits it into an audio and a separate video clip so if you really want too you could place the audio with a different video clip although all I wanted to do was to delete the audio. I played through all of my clips and used this technique to remove any unwanted audio.

This leads me on nicely to my next blog post. I will look at how I trimmed and added audio other than that which accompanies a video clip.