Trimming Clips In The Monitor Window - Adobe PREMIERE 5 User Manual

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The rough cut of your video program plays until the end.
Note that the edit line in the Timeline moves in tandem with the preview. This edit line
indicates the active frame—the frame being edited or previewed.
To replay it, click the Play button again, or click the Loop button ( )to play the video
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program in a continuous loop. To stop the action, click the Stop button (
spacebar.
Now that you've got a general idea of the video program, you'll trim the video clips and add
audio, transitions, special effects, and superimposing to create the finished version.

Trimming clips in the Monitor window

When you shoot footage with your camera, you almost always produce much more material
than you'll actually use in your video program. To create scenes, cuts, and transitions, you'll
need to trim your clips, removing the parts that you don't need. Trimming clips is an essential
part of creating a video program, something you'll do many times. Premiere provides a number
of different ways to trim clips, including quick rough-cut tools and more precise frame-by-
frame views.
You'll start editing the bicycle video by trimming the Boys.mov clip, the first clip in the
video program.
Make sure that both the Timeline window and the Monitor window are visible and that
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they don't overlap one another. Then click the Timeline window title bar to make the
Timeline active.
) or press the