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Subuddh5F91
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June 25, 2023
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How to add multiple clips into your timeline from a single source video

  • June 25, 2023
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Hi all,

 

Very newbie question here but one that got me very stuck and as a result had to abandon Premiere. (Coming to premiere from iMovie/Final Cut).   I have a long source video, an interview going about 18 minutes. In my timeline I expect to use many small clips from it at various places.  This is v easy to do in Final Cut. On Premiere however, after watching some tutorials I added the video to my source files, then went and selected my first little clip in it(using I and O) and brought this clip into my timeline. Then I went to select my second clip which ocurrs at a different place in the source video however everytime I made this new selection in the source video, all it would do is overwrite the first one in the timeline!   I spent quite some time trying to figure out how to get it to not do so, to instead add this new selection in the source video as a new clip in the timeline, but no luck. What did I miss? I'd love to get into Premiere again but am afraid I'll get stuck again at this first step.

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    Richard van den Boogaard
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    Richard van den BoogaardCommunity Expert
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    June 26, 2023

    Instead of working via the Source Monitor panel, you may also consider working with two stacked sequences, where you drag segments from one to the other. This is also called pancake editing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p46CUfDhun0

     

    Hope this helps.

    Peru Bob
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    Peru BobCommunity Expert
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    June 25, 2023

    If you do it that way, you need to right click > duplicate the clip in the Project Panel and then use that new clip each time.

     

    Another way is to not put the in and out points in the source clip in the Project panel, but to cut it on the timeline.  That way, each piece on the timeline will be editable independently.

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    Subuddh5F91Author
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    June 26, 2023

    Thanks!  In that case, for approach 1, if I have an 18 minute video and I need to extract 100 short clips from it, it will need to be duplicated 100 times? Won't that blow out the storage? It seems so inefficient?

    For approach 2, where I cut it on the timeline, does that mean I have to first add the entire 18 minutes into the timeline? I will be making 100s of cuts, and there are many such long interview videos.  Won't this make the timeline an unmanageable mess?

    MyerPj
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    MyerPjCommunity Expert
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    June 26, 2023

    It's not duplicating the clip, in fact the clips (.mov, .mp4 etc) are not actually placed in the project, just a reference to it. But you do not need the clip 100 times in the project, just once. You can keep dropping it into the project using different points in the clip at different times (or the same portion again in a different place in the timeline, etc). If the 18min clip follows along basically in order it makes it easy when you do drop in the whole clip and keep making edits in it. "Q" is your friend there. I usually don't use I/O I just plop the clip in the timeline and start cutting.

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