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Trim Clip in Premiere

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show how to trim a clip in Premiere Pro.

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To trim a clip, we double-click the audio track first
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This will expand it.

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We press the "+" key to zoom in
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We can see that there is some dead space before the talent start talking. There are a few ways of trimming the dead space.

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One way of trimming the dead space is pressing the "V" key and clicking and dragging the start of the clip to the right
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We right click the empty audio area and select "Ripple Delete"
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Alternatively, we can select the entire clip and move it to the left
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The other way of trimming the dead space is pressing the "C" key
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The clip will be cut at the cursor position. Then, we can edit the clip.

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We press the "V" and "delete" keys
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We'll have to move the entire clip or use "Ripple Delete" again as in step 4.
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Alternatively, we press "option" and "delete" keys to close the gap
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The quickest way of trimming the dead space is to use the playhead
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We place the playhead where we want to trim the clip.
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We press the "Q" key
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The "Q" key will delete everything to the left of the playhead.
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We press "fn" and the right arrow key
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We will go to the end of the clip. We will see where the end of the audio is.
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We move the playhead to the end of the audio
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We press the "W" key to delete everything to the right of the playhead
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That was how to trim a clip in Adobe Premiere Pro. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the space below. Thanks for watching VisiHow!