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How do I trim only the selected clip on a timeline with a shortcut key?

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
November 4, 2016
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I have been using the shortcut "Ripple trim next edit to playhead", but I am looking for a shortcut that will only trim the current track that I have selected. Is that possible in Premiere?

Thanks in advance

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Rayan5F9E

Participant

So sad that this is such an obvious feature but is still not implemented yet. I used Davinci Resolve for a couple times, and it's way faster to just select the clips you want, and clip them using keys instead of manually dragging them.

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TJKingfisher

Participant

It's 2025. I still don't see a solution for this request

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rayanl70663027

Participating Frequently

I' m also trying to figure this out. I think that amazingly this is not possible in Premiere Pro.

You have to manually lock all the tracks except the one you're working in. And if you want to trim a clip in another track, do the same... Which misses the point of the feature because it was meant to be a quick way to edit instead of manually dragging the clips' end

Kaden Stimpson

Participant

One way around this is with the paid plugin Excalibur by Knights of the Editing Table. Its a great plugin for many reasons and there is a way to keymap this trim command as a shortcut.

Kevin-Monahan

Community Manager

I will move this to the Ideas forum for consideration. Looks like I am first on the upvotes. Please join me by upvoting.

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio

Peru Bob

Community Expert

"I did reply to the First Post, right? Or did i miss something?"

That was just my signature, not a comment on your reply.

I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help.

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detag_tech

Participant

Is this still not possible? I just came across the same thing, and it doesn't wanna go into my mind how all my clips get trimmed if i press Q, W or Shift+Q and Shift+W. It doesn't make any sense... If i want all the Clips to be trimmed, or more than one, i just select more than one, but if i only select one, it should only trim one... Does that really not make sense? This would help alot with animation subtitling where you create text boxes that just appear for a fraction of some seconds sometimes so you can set markers on the waveform of the audio and then just jump through the markers, select the subtitle word and just trim in and out on the markers. Right now if you have overlapping subtitles it just trims all of them which doesn't make any sense...

Peru Bob

Community Expert

You can use Source patching and track targeting:

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/source-patching-track-targetting.html

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detag_tech

Participant

I did reply to the First Post, right? Or did i miss something?

I don't see how your answer really helps me. It is just another few steps to do, everytime i cut another video track, which means more clicking somewhere else to solo something when i can just click on the clip i want to trim. This doesn't really work as a workaround because if i need to solo every single track first then i might aswell just CMD+K and delete the rest, which defeats the purpose of trimming and ripple trimming in my opinion. Adobe really needs to work on this, the current situation makes zero sense.

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Carlos Ziade

Community Expert

Trimming clips in Adobe Premiere Pro CC

if your request is not in the link, try to raise your voice to Adobe feature request

Osuki Fujioka

Participating Frequently

Yes, thanks. I will request the feature. Hope this can reach Adobe soon

Osuki Fujioka

Participating Frequently

There is still no answer for this question yet. I have the same question. Why don't Adobe give us decide which clip to trim by select the clip instead trim all the track (using shortcut Trim edit to playhead). Please answer and do some actions, please.

juanmario

Participating Frequently

To cut one or more selected clips, use the Ctrl + K combination, and short only the selection.

Or did I misinterpret the problem?

Osuki Fujioka

Participating Frequently

Ctrl + K is just add edit shortcut. I mean the shortcut for these series of action: cut the selected clip then delete the clip before the play head. It is similar to the shortcut Trim edit to playhead, but the different is trim edit to playhead is trim all the track and layer at the playhead. What I want to ask is can we apply that to only the selected clip. I know that you can answer that lock or toggle all others track, but it's quite ‎clunky‎. Any other suggestion than that. I really appreciate that

dannymaldonado26

Participant

None of these are what I am asking. Any regular clip I am trying to grab the end and drag it in and it's not letting me if I command click it makes an insert cut and bumps the footage down. I know in other editors it does that but for some reason something as simple as grabbing the end and dragging it to trim the size of he actual region is not possible. Also dragging a clip does the same thing.

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joshuamorinAuthor

Inspiring

I am confused, are you asking a question on my thread?

danny_intrigue

Participant

Handing same issue not liking this at all

R Neil Haugen

Legend

I'd love to hear your suggested operation of PrPro that would make it "aware" of whether the editor wants to trim one clip or the entire "stack". Any useful items are of course worth a bug/feature request.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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joshuamorinAuthor

Inspiring

You select a clip or maybe even more than one. You hit a keystroke and it trims only the selected clips. It works this way in other editors.

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