Adobe 65021048 User Guide - Page 143

ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS3 137 User Guide Enable or disable a clip You can disable a clip while you try out a different editing idea, or to shorten processing time when working on a complex projects. Disabled clips do not appear in the Program Monitor or in a preview or video file that you export. As long as you have not locked the track containing a disabled clip, you can still make changes to it. If you want to disable all clips on the same track, exclude the entire track instead. See "Targeting tracks" on page 116. ❖ Select one or more clips in the Timeline panel and choose Clip > Enable. A check mark next to the command indicates that the selected clips is enabled. Disabled clips appear dimmed in the Timeline panel. Copy and paste attributes If you have applied settings to a clip and want to use the same settings in one or more other clips, you can easily copy the settings. For example, you might want to apply identical color correction to a series of clips shot in similar lighting conditions. Settings intrinsic to the source clip-motion, opacity, volume-replace those in the destination clips. All other effects (including keyframes) are added to the list of effects already applied to the destination clips. Note: You can also copy and paste keyframes from one effect parameter to another compatible effect parameter. See "Copy and paste keyframes" on page 292. 1 Select a clip, and choose Edit > Copy. 2 Select one or more clips in the Timeline panel. 3 Choose Edit > Paste Attributes. Group clips You can group multiple clips so that you can move, disable, copy, or delete them together. Both audio and video tracks of a linked clip are included when you group it with other clips. You can't apply clip-based commands, such as the Speed command, or effects to the group, though you can select individual clips in the group and apply effects. You can trim the exterior edges of the group (the head of the first clip in a group or the tail of the last clip), but you can't trim any of the interior In and Out points. • To group clips, select multiple clips, and choose Clip > Group. • To ungroup clips, select a group clip, and choose Clip > Ungroup. • To select one or more clips in a group of clips, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) a single clip in a group. Shift+Alt-click (Windows) or Shift+Option-click (Mac OS) to select additional clips in a group. Snap clips To make it easier to align clips with one another or with particular points in time, you can activate the snap feature. When you move a clip with snap on, it automatically aligns with, or snaps to, the edge of another clip, a marker, the start and end of the time ruler, or the current-time indicator. Snapping also helps to ensure you don't inadvertently perform an insert or overlay edit when dragging. As you drag clips, a vertical line with arrows appears and indicates when clips are aligned. Enable and disable the snap feature ❖ At the upper left of the Timeline panel under the Sequence tab, click the Snap button to deselect it. to select it. Click it again April 1, 2008