Should I trim my clips in Premiere or import them already trimmed?

[courtneyw98665068]

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,

[Morgan Cynic · Accepted solution]

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.

[Guest]

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.

[R Neil Haugen]

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

[Peru Bob]

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

[courtneyw98665068]

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

cheers