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.

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.

Finesse your editing with precision using all-new advanced trimming tools. Trim clips your way — directly in the timeline via keyboard entry or dynamically in the Program Monitor using JKL shortcuts.

In this video, you will learn how to use markers to mark beats and words to aid you in aligning and trimming clips, to those beats or words, in Adobe Premiere Pro.