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Luisa Winters

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Modifying clips

Learn how to modify clips in Adobe Premiere Pro. Find out how markers can help you make editing decisions, such as slowing or speeding up video clips.

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[00:00:00] [Music]

[00:00:00] welcome to this premiere pro tutorial on

[00:00:00] modifying clips i'm luisa winters let's

[00:00:00] start by opening the project named o3

[00:00:00] modifying clips included with your

[00:00:00] project files

[00:00:00] if you have not downloaded these please

[00:00:00] go ahead and do so now

[00:00:00] now that we have the project open let's

[00:00:00] switch to the editing workspace for this

[00:00:00] click on the workspace switcher button

[00:00:00] and choose editing

[00:00:00] if you are already on the editing

[00:00:00] workspace you can click on the button

[00:00:00] again and choose reset to saved layout

[00:00:00] now let's play the timeline this is the

[00:00:00] edit that we did on the last movie using

[00:00:00] techniques of marking in and out points

[00:00:00] and using insert and overwrite edits

[00:00:00] [Music]

[00:00:00] now we are going to fine tune this

[00:00:00] sequence

[00:00:00] let's mute the music clip for that click

[00:00:00] on this icon here on the timeline it

[00:00:00] looks like a little m

[00:00:00] let's also lock the a1 track that way

[00:00:00] any changes we make in the timeline will

[00:00:00] not affect this track

[00:00:00] to lock the track click on this lock

[00:00:00] icon here and now you see these diagonal

[00:00:00] lines on the track which are your visual

[00:00:00] indication that the track is locked

[00:00:00] now let's take a better look at this

[00:00:00] track let's make it a little taller

[00:00:00] for that double-click on the track

[00:00:00] header and the track height will be

[00:00:00] extended let's do this with both v1 and

[00:00:00] a1

[00:00:00] now let's work with some markers

[00:00:00] first let's open the markers panel

[00:00:00] if you cannot see it here in the same

[00:00:00] panel as the project panel

[00:00:00] then go to window

[00:00:00] markers and you will see it

[00:00:00] now that we have the markers panel open

[00:00:00] i'd like to go over the difference

[00:00:00] between a timeline marker and a clip

[00:00:00] marker

[00:00:00] you see if we select the timeline you

[00:00:00] will see that we already have a marker

[00:00:00] in here but the moment we select a clip

[00:00:00] that doesn't have a marker we see that

[00:00:00] there are no markers

[00:00:00] you can see the timeline marker in here

[00:00:00] this is this little green icon

[00:00:00] let's go to the timeline marker that we

[00:00:00] see here it is a time code 928

[00:00:00] we can navigate here by typing the time

[00:00:00] code number or by placing the playhead

[00:00:00] on top of the marker

[00:00:00] or we could just double click the marker

[00:00:00] on the marker panel this moves the

[00:00:00] playhead to where the marker is and it

[00:00:00] opens the marker options panel

[00:00:00] in here we can see where we can rename

[00:00:00] the marker and we can also see that we

[00:00:00] can extend the duration of this marker

[00:00:00] let's do that you can change the

[00:00:00] duration by scrubbing this value here

[00:00:00] let's click ok to close this panel

[00:00:00] you can already see that the marker is a

[00:00:00] little bit longer in the timeline we can

[00:00:00] also click and drag here in the timeline

[00:00:00] to extend the duration of this marker so

[00:00:00] that it covers the entire clip

[00:00:00] let's zoom into this clip press the plus

[00:00:00] key

[00:00:00] now let's change the speed of the clip

[00:00:00] to be 200 percent

[00:00:00] we can do this a couple of ways one of

[00:00:00] them is to right click the clip and

[00:00:00] choose speed duration

[00:00:00] now in here you can type 200 and the

[00:00:00] clip will go twice as fast let's do that

[00:00:00] type a 200 in here

[00:00:00] notice the other options that we see

[00:00:00] we can type a duration we can reverse

[00:00:00] the clip so that it plays backwards and

[00:00:00] we can also ripple edit so that no gaps

[00:00:00] will be left on the timeline

[00:00:00] let's not select any of those and simply

[00:00:00] click ok

[00:00:00] now in the timeline we see that the clip

[00:00:00] is half the duration this is because it

[00:00:00] is playing twice as fast but let's go

[00:00:00] ahead and click and drag to extend the

[00:00:00] duration of this clip so that again it

[00:00:00] plays until the next clip appears

[00:00:00] now let's select the clip that plays

[00:00:00] right after this one and change the

[00:00:00] label color

[00:00:00] to do that

[00:00:00] just right click on the clip and choose

[00:00:00] label

[00:00:00] from here choose brown and you got it

[00:00:00] now let's rename it coffee beans

[00:00:00] to rename it right click on it and

[00:00:00] choose rename type coffee beans and

[00:00:00] click ok

[00:00:00] now let's play around this edit

[00:00:00] let's start at around here and play

[00:00:00] and let's go again from around here

[00:00:00] and play

[00:00:00] we see that the speed of the beans is

[00:00:00] now better when played with the other

[00:00:00] clips

[00:00:00] zoom out by pressing the backslash key

[00:00:00] and let's select the last clip

[00:00:00] notice that this clip already has a clip

[00:00:00] marker

[00:00:00] the clip marker says to change the speed

[00:00:00] of this clip to 200 percent

[00:00:00] so let's right click it

[00:00:00] choose speed duration

[00:00:00] and when the speed duration dialog comes

[00:00:00] up type 200

[00:00:00] click ok and you got it

[00:00:00] so you saw that we can have clip markers

[00:00:00] and you can also have timeline or

[00:00:00] sequence markers

[00:00:00] let's go ahead and double click this

[00:00:00] clip here so that it opens in the source

[00:00:00] panel

[00:00:00] you can see the marker in here you can

[00:00:00] double click it in here and the marker

[00:00:00] settings dialog will open up

[00:00:00] click ok

[00:00:00] we can also see the marker right here in

[00:00:00] the markers panel i use markers all the

[00:00:00] time they help me keep myself organized

[00:00:00] and i can also give instructions and or

[00:00:00] directions to anyone who may be editing

[00:00:00] this program after me

[00:00:00] this brings us to the end of this video

[00:00:00] on modifying clips in premiere pro i'm

[00:00:00] luisa winters thank you for watching and

[00:00:00] see you next time

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