Adobe 65021048 User Guide - Page 157

ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS3 151 User Guide 3 View the audio In point or Out point of the clip you want to edit in detail by dragging the zoom slider to the right. 4 Trim the clip by doing one of the following: • To adjust the In point, position the pointer over the left edge of the clip's audio so that the trim head tool appears, and drag left or right. • To adjust the Out point, position the pointer over the right edge of the clip's audio so that the trim tail icon appears, and drag left or right. 5 Use the waveform display or play the audio to make sure that you adjusted the In and Out points properly. Link and unlink video and audio clips In the Project panel, clips that contain both video and audio appear as a single item, represented by . When you add the clip to the sequence, however, the video and audio appear as two objects, each in its appropriate track (provided you specified both the video and audio sources when adding the clip). The video and audio portions of the clip are linked so that when you drag the video portion in the Timeline panel, the linked audio moves with it, and vice versa. For this reason, the audio/video pair is called a linked clip. In the Timeline panel, each part of the linked clip is labeled with the same clip name, which is underlined. The video is marked [V] and the audio is marked [A]. Ordinarily, all editing functions act on both parts of a linked clip. When you want to work with the audio and video individually, you can unlink them. When you do, you can use the video and audio as though they were not linked; even the clip names no longer appear underlined or bear the [V] and [A] labels. Even so, Adobe Premiere Pro keeps track of the link. If you relink the clips, they indicate whether they have been moved out of sync, and by how much. You can have Adobe Premiere Pro automatically resynchronize the clips. You can also create a link between previously unlinked clips. This is particularly useful if you need to synchronize video and audio that were recorded separately. Note: You can link video only to audio-you cannot link a video clip to another video clip. You can link a video clip to multiple audio clips, or multiple audio clips together. See also "Linking multiple audio clips" on page 192 Link or unlink video and audio ❖ Do any of the following: • To link video and audio, Shift-click a video and audio clip to select them both, and then choose Clip > Link. • To unlink video and audio, select a linked clip and choose Clip > Unlink. Though the audio and video are unlinked, they are both still selected. Reselect either clip to use it separately. Edit tracks of linked clips individually ❖ Alt-click/Option-click either part of a linked clip, and then use any editing tool. When you are finished editing the clip, you can reselect (click) the clip to edit it as a linked clip again. April 1, 2008