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courtneyw98665068
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August 13, 2019
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Should I trim my clips in Premiere or import them already trimmed?

  • August 13, 2019
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Hi,

I'm fairly new to Premiere, not to time-lines in particular and I have experience with After Effects but I am about to put together my first, rather largish video project which will contain about 40 different video clips.

My question is would you guys recommend that I do all the trimming of the clips within my premiere project - or is it more efficient to trim out the clips I need before hand and only import the footage I will use? If so, what would you use to do the trimming?

Im sure some people will prefer one method over the other, i'm just trying to avoid doing things the long way if there's a more efficient way of doing it.

Thanks in advance,

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Correct answer Morgan Cynic

I always trim within Premiere since it would take another software to trim the clips. You'd then probably have to re-save them and delete the originals.

If you do it in Premiere, go to the Assembly window and double-click on the video you want to trim. It'll show up in upper-left corner and you can play it. The shortcut for marking the in-point of the video is i on the keyboard, and out-point is o.

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courtneyw98665068Author
Inspiring
August 13, 2019

thanks everyone the consensus seems to do it all in Premiere so that I can make non destructive edits etc - this makes sense,

cheers

    Peru Bob
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    Peru BobCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 13, 2019

    I wouldn't trim them before importing because you may need the extra footage for transition handles.

      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
      Legend
      August 13, 2019

      It .. depends.

      For some workflows using Prelude to ingest the media is a good choice. Especially for news and large organization media departments.

      Prelude can be setup to read the media on attached camera cards, rename, copy the renamed original to archive area, trim clips from them and transcode to an editing format then putting the t-codes in the project working folder.

      With saved batch operations and all.

      Neil

      Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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        Anonymous
        August 13, 2019

        You do not want to trim your videos before editing. What Premiere Pro does is non-destructive editing: Adobe Premiere Pro cc Tutorial: Ep 3 (Non-destructive editing, Adjusment Layer) - YouTube

        Just do everything in Premiere.

          Morgan Cynic
          Morgan CynicCorrect answer
          Inspiring
          August 13, 2019

          I always trim within Premiere since it would take another software to trim the clips. You'd then probably have to re-save them and delete the originals.

          If you do it in Premiere, go to the Assembly window and double-click on the video you want to trim. It'll show up in upper-left corner and you can play it. The shortcut for marking the in-point of the video is i on the keyboard, and out-point is o.

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