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User Guide
For information about editing clips in the program, see “Editing a clip that exists between
other Timeline clips” on page 176.
Note: By default, the Insert and Overlay buttons add a clip to the Timeline at the edit line. You
can override this and specify the intended location of your clip by setting a program In point,
a program Out point, or both. See “Replacing program frames using a three- or four-point edit”
on page 171.
If you want to create a quick rough cut and don’t need to trim or otherwise change the
clips, you can use the Sequence window. See “Creating a sequence of video files” on
page 329. If you want an area to arrange clips before dragging them to the Timeline, create a
new bin, set it to Icon view, arrange clips there, and then select and drag those clips together
to a Timeline track.
Replacing program frames using a three- or four-point edit
You can use the Monitor window to replace a range of program frames with a range of source
clip frames. Premiere provides three-point and four-point edits, standard techniques in
traditional video editing.
In a three-point edit, for the source and program together, you mark either two In points and
one Out point, or two Out points and one In point. This type of edit is useful when one end
of a source or program edit is critical but the other is not. A three-point edit can also save
time because you don’t have to specify the fourth point, and because the process concludes
with the edit line at the end of the clip, a convenient position if you want to add another clip
afterward. When you add the source frames to the Timeline, Premiere will determine the
fourth point by applying the duration of the In and Out points you specified to the third
point. For example, if you mark a source In point of 00:03:15, a source Out point of 00:04:15,
and a program Out point of 13:22:05, Premiere will apply the one-second duration between
the source In and Out points to the program Out point, and automatically set the program
In point to 13:21:05. You can leave any single In or Out point unmarked, but you must specify
a total of three In and Out points.
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