Premiere® Elements 8 For Dummies®

Chapter 6. Trimming and Editing Video Clips

In This Chapter

• Reviewing your clips

• Setting In points and Out points

• Marking your place with clip markers

• Fine-tuning your clips

Like plays, movies are made up of scenes you put together in a certain order so that the show makes sense and is enjoyable to watch. Before you can turn scenes into a movie in Premiere Elements, you need to identify which scenes you want to use. Each scene — called a clip in video-editing parlance — should be previewed for both video and audio content. After you decide to use a clip, you then determine which portions of that clip you want to keep. Sometimes you may want to leave virtual sticky-notes on scenes to remind yourself later of an important spot in the scene.

After you've captured some video as described in Chapter 5, this chapter leads you through the next steps — previewing your video clips, selecting portions of clips to use in projects, and performing other tasks to make your clips ready for use in your movies.

Reviewing Your Clips

Clips that you capture or import into Premiere Elements all wind up on the Task pane and in the Organizer (see Chapter 5 for more on capturing and organizing clips). Clips come in many flavors: video, audio, still graphics, titles, and more. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. (For more on working with titles, see Chapter 13.)

Getting the details on your clips

The Premiere Elements Task pane displays thumbnail images of clips, but not much else. It also usually displays every ...