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Part I ✦ Getting Started with Premiere

7. Save your work by choosing File ➪ Save. Name your file Nite Out.

If you don’t see tracks Video 1A and Video 1B, your workspace is probably set to

Single Track Editing. To view the Video 1A and 1B tracks, choose Window ➪

Workspace ➪ A/B Editing.

Trimming clips in the Timeline window

You can edit a clip in several ways. We’ll start simply editing the first clip by click-

ing and dragging its out point in the Timeline. Before editing a clip, you may want to

view it.

To view a video clip, do one of the following:

✦ Double-click the video clip in the Project window. When the Clip window

appears, click the Play button to view the clip.

✦ Double-click the video clip in the Timeline window. In the Clip window, click

the Play button to view the clip.

The following steps explain how to add the first video clip to the Timeline window:

The first clip is the Walkers clip. If you haven’t viewed the clip, you can play a

thumbnail version of it in the project window. Click it in the Project window and

then click the left arrow button at the top of the Clip window. Also note that the clip

is 14 seconds long. We only need 4 seconds of it.

1. Drag the Walkers clip from the Project window into the Video 1A track.

Position the clip so that it starts about at the vertical line where the title fade-

in ends — about 1 second on the Timeline.

2. Change the zoom level to 2 seconds. When you place the clip, Premiere

sends you to its end point on the Timeline. Zooming to 2 seconds makes

editing a bit easier.

3. Position the mouse pointer at the end of the clip. The cursor changes to a

bracket.

4. Click and drag to the left to shorten the clip. Make the clip about 4 seconds

long so that it ends on the 9-second mark (00:00:09:00) on the Timeline.

Previewing in the Monitor window

To look at the video production so far, you can preview the program in the Monitor

window. Make sure that the Monitor window is open by choosing Window ➪ Show

Monitor (see Figure 1-9).

Click the Play In to Out button at the bottom of the Monitor window. As soon as you

click, the video clip rewinds and begins playing in the window. To stop the clip,

press the spacebar or click the Stop button.

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