Often, in After Effects, it’s valuable to trim and move layers in a project the same way you would edit individual clips in a video-editing application like Premiere Pro. In this movie, Ian Robinson shows how to trim and re-time multiple individual layers, each with their own animations, to create a complete composited animation.

This movie introduces the robust audio tools in Premiere Pro. Abba Shapiro shows how to preview and trim audio in the Source Monitor. Whether it’s an audio-only file or the audio channel of a video clip, Abba shows how to enable sub-frame audio scrubbing and trimming. He also shows how to interpret clips to combine or separate stereo channels. At the same time, he introduces fundamental audio tools that are essential to working with audio in Premiere Pro.

The Timeline is where clips are edited together to create a complete narrative. In this movie, Abba Shapiro demonstrates the basic techniques to get started trimming clips and laying them out in the Timeline. He starts by browsing clips in the Project panel. Then he previews and trims clips in the Source Monitor before adding them into the Timeline to begin an edit.

Premiere Pro CS6 includes several features designed to help you edit quickly and precisely with the keyboard, including the new trim mode, dynamic trimming commands, and JKL trimming commands. You'll learn how to apply these to your work in this video.

One of the most asked-for features in Premiere Pro CS6 is JKL Dynamic Trimming. This powerful feature dramatically speeds up trimming on the Timeline, as you'll see in this lesson.

Most of the time, when you make adjustments to your media, you'll do it using Premiere Pro's trimming controls. This lesson shows you several of the ways you can adjust the start and end points of your clips.

Learn how to trim your video clips manually as well as automatically. See how to manually drag handles to set in and out points for your clips, preview them, and even split them. Also see how to use Smart Trim to get rid of your least interesting, lowest quality footage. Set up Smart Trim to automatically cut bad footage or recommend cuts and then let you make the final decisions.

Take a close look at timeline elements including switches, navigation, zooming, trimming, setting keyframes, and basic layer properties. Next, review how to set and change keyframe parameters in the timeline, and multiple ways you can accomplish this in After Effects.

This movie demonstrates how keyboard shortcuts can speed up the editing process for a more powerful editing workflow. Learn about the trimming, ripple trimming, slipping, and sliding commands, as well as tips for customizing keyboard shortcuts.

Save time with dynamic timeline trimming, uninterrupted playback, and more.