Premiere 6.5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Chapter 4. Editing Source Clips

You may have heard film editing referred to as cutting. This, of course, refers to the fact that you literally cut the work print of a film. In some circles, however, editing is called joining, which refers to the process of splicing film segments together. The term you prefer might say something about your attitude toward editing—emphasizing either the elimination or the union of footage. Literally speaking, of course, editing involves both cutting and joining clips. You select portions of the source footage and arrange them into a sequence, called a program.

The tools and techniques you use to accomplish this fundamental task are varied, flexible, and tightly integrated. The following three chapters focus on ...