Display clip timings from 0:00 in Program window as edits are being made in Timeline window

[sonia_6226]

I am a novice user but can't find a tutorial to explain. I have edited my 25 go pro clips in advance and want to get to the exciting parts in the timeline, but have to guess the timings of my ripple deletes by doing mental arthimatic  while I'm editing the timeline. Is there a way to display the clips' original timings to make my edits easier? Thank you. 

[kglad]

assuming this is a premiere pro question...

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[RobShultz]

Maybe doing a right click on the clip in the timeline and choosing " Reveal in Project." You can then get the length of the clip in the Project Panel's Meta Data.

[R Neil Haugen]

I'm trying to figure out the ... you edited down to the exciting parts, but can't figure out how to get to them ... that makes no sense to me.

So I'll just give a couple ways to start an edit session.

The first is select all the clips, then right-click open in Source monitor.

Go to the first clip in the Source monitor, scrub to set I and O (in and out) ... hit the command to insert onto the timeline using your keyboard. Scrub next clip, rinse and repeat. 

This puts those sections of each clip onto the current sequence.

Or grab the clips starting as above, but use the create sequence from selection option. Now they're all opened in a sequence in the Timeline panel.

Select the first clip, and again, create sequence. You now have two sequences in the same timeline panel.

Click on the name of the first sequence, and drag up to the top of the timeline panel, so there's a highlighted bar across the top. Then release. This creates a second timeline panel above the first.

Now scrub down that upper sequence (with all the clips) ... use the cut key (Alt-K) to set in/out, grab and drop onto the sequence below. This is "pancake editing" and there's tons of YouTube on doing this.

Another fast method is top & tail ... Q and W keys.

Scrub to the selected in point, tap Q. It cuts everything before that frame in that clip, and ripples the clip to the left to join to the previous clip. 

Now scrub to the last frame you want to see, hit the W key ... and it cuts all of that clip after the cut, and ripples all things down farther up to that point.