- Adobe Premiere Pro User Guide
- Beta releases
- Beta Program Overview
- Premiere Pro Beta Home
- Getting started
- Get started with Adobe Premiere Pro
- What's new in Premiere Pro
- Release Notes | Premiere Pro
- Keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro
- Accessibility in Premiere Pro
- Long Form and Episodic Workflow Guide
- Get started with Adobe Premiere Pro
- Hardware and operating system requirements
- Hardware recommendations
- System requirements
- GPU and GPU Driver requirements
- GPU Accelerated Rendering & Hardware Encoding/Decoding
- Hardware recommendations
- Creating projects
- Start a new project
- Open projects
- Move and delete projects
- Work with multiple open projects
- Work with Project Shortcuts
- Backward compatibility of Premiere Pro projects
- Open and edit Premiere Rush projects in Premiere Pro
- Best Practices: Create your own project templates
- Workspaces and workflows
- Workspaces
- FAQ | Import and export in Premiere
Pro
- Working with Panels
- Windows touch and gesture controls
- Use Premiere Pro in a dual-monitor setup
- Workspaces
- Capturing and
importing
- Capturing
- Capturing and digitizing footage
- Capturing HD, DV, or HDV video
- Batch capturing and recapturing
- Setting up your system for HD, DV, or HDV capture
- Capturing and digitizing footage
- Importing
- Transfer files
- Importing still images
- Importing digital audio
- Importing from Avid or Final Cut
- Importing AAF project files from Avid Media Composer
- Importing XML
project files from Final Cut Pro 7 and Final Cut Pro X
- Importing AAF project files from Avid Media Composer
- Supported file formats
- Digitizing analog video
- Working with timecode
- Capturing
- Editing
- Edit video
- Sequences
- Create and change sequences
- Change sequence settings
- Add clips to sequences
- Rearrange clips in a sequence
- Find, select, and group clips in a sequence
- Edit from sequences loaded into the Source Monitor
- Simplify sequences
- Rendering and previewing sequences
- Working with markers
- Source patching and track targeting
- Scene edit detection
- Video
- Create and play clips
- Trimming clips
- Synchronizing audio and video with Merge Clips
- Render and replace media
- Undo, history, and events
- Freeze and hold frames
- Working with aspect ratios
- Create and play clips
- Audio
- Overview of audio in Premiere Pro
- Audio Track Mixer
- Adjusting volume levels
- Edit, repair, and improve audio using Essential Sound panel
- Automatically duck audio
- Remix audio
- Monitor clip volume and pan using Audio Clip Mixer
- Audio balancing and panning
- Advanced Audio - Submixes, downmixing, and routing
- Audio effects and transitions
- Working with audio transitions
- Apply effects to audio
- Measure audio using the Loudness Radar effect
- Recording audio mixes
- Editing audio in the timeline
- Audio channel mapping in Premiere Pro
- Use Adobe Stock audio in Premiere Pro
- Overview of audio in Premiere Pro
- Advanced editing
- Multi-camera editing workflow
- Set up and use Head Mounted Display for immersive video in Premiere Pro
- Editing VR
- Multi-camera editing workflow
- Best Practices
- Best Practices: Mix audio faster
- Best Practices: Editing efficiently
- Editing workflows for feature films
- Video Effects and Transitions
- Overview of video effects and transitions
- Effects
- Types of effects in Premiere Pro
- Apply and remove effects
- Effect presets
- Automatically reframe video for different social media channels
- Color correction effects
- Change duration and speed of clips
- Adjustment Layers
- Stabilize footage
- Transitions
- Applying transitions in Premiere Pro
- Modifying and customizing transitions
- Morph Cut
- Titles, Graphics, and Captions
- Overview of the Essential Graphics panel
- Titles
- Create a title
- Graphics
- Create a shape
- Draw with the Pen tool
- Align and distribute objects
- Change the appearance of text and shapes
- Apply gradients
- Add Responsive Design features to your graphics
- Install and use Motion Graphics templates
- Replace images or videos in Motion Graphics templates
- Use data-driven Motion Graphics templates
- Captions
- Speech to Text
- Download language packs for transcription
- Working with captions
- Check spelling and Find and Replace
- Export text
- Speech to Text in Premiere Pro | FAQ
- Best Practices: Faster graphics workflows
- Retiring the Legacy Titler in Premiere Pro | FAQ
- Upgrade Legacy titles to Source Graphics
- Animation and Keyframing
- Adding, navigating, and setting keyframes
- Animating effects
- Use Motion effect to edit and animate clips
- Optimize keyframe automation
- Moving and copying keyframes
- Viewing and adjusting effects and keyframes
- Adding, navigating, and setting keyframes
- Compositing
- Compositing, alpha channels, and adjusting clip opacity
- Masking and tracking
- Blending modes
- Compositing, alpha channels, and adjusting clip opacity
- Color Correction and Grading
- Overview: Color workflows in Premiere Pro
- Auto Color
- Get creative with color using Lumetri looks
- Adjust color using RGB and Hue Saturation Curves
- Correct and match colors between shots
- Using HSL Secondary controls in the Lumetri Color panel
- Create vignettes
- Looks and LUTs
- Lumetri scopes
- Display Color Management
- HDR for broadcasters
- Enable DirectX HDR support
- Exporting media
- Export video
- Export Preset Manager
- Workflow and overview for exporting
- Quick export
- Exporting for the Web and mobile devices
- Export a still image
- Exporting projects for other applications
- Exporting OMF files for Pro Tools
- Export to Panasonic P2 format
- Export settings
- Export settings reference
- Basic Video Settings
- Encoding Settings
- Best Practices: Export faster
- Collaboration: Frame.io, Productions, and
Team Projects
- Collaboration in Premiere Pro
- Frame.io
- Install and activate Frame.io
- Use Frame.io with Premiere Pro and After Effects
- Integrate Adobe Workfront and Frame.io
- Frequently asked questions
- Productions
- Using Productions
- How clips work across projects in a Production
- Best Practices: Working with Productions
- Team Projects
- Get started with Team Projects
- Create a Team Project
- Add and manage media in Team Projects
- Invite and manage collaborators in a team project
- Share and manage changes with collaborators
- View auto-saves and versions of Team Projects
- Archive, restore, or delete Team Projects
- Get started with Team Projects
- Working with other Adobe applications
- After Effects and Photoshop
- Dynamic Link
- Audition
- Prelude
- Organizing and
Managing Assets
- Working in the Project panel
- Organize assets in the Project panel
- Playing assets
- Search assets
- Creative Cloud Libraries
- Sync Settings in Premiere Pro
- Consolidate, transcode, and archive projects
- Managing metadata
- Best Practices
- Best Practices: Learning from broadcast production
- Best Practices: Working with native formats
- Best Practices: Learning from broadcast production
- Working in the Project panel
- Improving Performance and Troubleshooting
- Set preferences
- Reset and restore preferences
- Working with Proxies
- Proxy overview
- Ingest and Proxy Workflow
- Proxy overview
- Check if your system is compatible with Premiere Pro
- Premiere Pro for Apple silicon
- Eliminate flicker
- Interlacing and field order
- Smart rendering
- Control surface support
- Best Practices: Working with native formats
- Knowledge Base
- Known issues
- Fixed issues
- Fix Premiere Pro crash issues
- Green and pink video in Premiere Pro or Premiere Rush
- How do I manage the Media Cache in Premiere Pro?
- Fix errors when rendering or exporting
- Troubleshoot issues related to playback and performance in Premiere Pro
- Set preferences
- Monitoring Assets and Offline Media
- Monitoring assets
- Using the Source Monitor and Program Monitor
- Using the Reference Monitor
- Offline media
- Working with offline clips
- Creating clips for offline editing
- Relinking offline medInstia
- Working with offline clips
- Monitoring assets
Use the editing tools in Premiere Pro to select, cut, and trim individual clips as you shape your story. You can use keyboard shortcuts to switch between tools faster.
After you import media into a new project in Premiere Pro, you can see all your clips assembled in a sequence on the timeline. You are ready to start editing.
To trim a clip, select it on the timeline, and drag one of the edges of the clip.
To cut a clip, choose the Razor tool, position it over a clip in the timeline, and click.
To reposition a clip, select it and drag it.
Editing on the timeline is non-destructive: you can trim, cut, copy, and move clips without altering the original media. All of your original media is available in the
Project panel.
Add or remove clips
- To remove a clip from the sequence, select it and press delete.
- To add a new clip to your sequence, drag it from the Project panel onto the timeline. You can also add clips directly from folders on your computer.
Remove gaps
- To close a gap between clips, select the gap and press delete.
- You can also use the Ripple Edit tool to trim the edge of a clip and automatically close the gap with the clip next to it.
Work faster with keyboard shortcuts
- Use V to switch to the Selection tool
- Use C to switch to the Razor tool
- Use B to switch to the Ripple Edit tool
- Use the spacebar to play and pause when you want to preview the current edit
You can also
- Use the right and left arrow keys to nudge the playhead forwards or backward, one frame at a time.
- Double-click clips to preview them on their own in the Source Monitor.
- Position clips on different video tracks. This allows you to stack clips without overwriting the clips below them.
- Add music to an audio track.
Learn more
If you have a question about editing on the timeline, reach out to us in our Premiere Pro community. We would love to help.