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Disconnecting audio and video - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Premiere Pro CS5 Essential Training
Disconnecting audio and video
We are now going to look at the relationship between audio and video. We haven't talked about this too much. By default, video clips that have attached audio to them are attached at the hip. We have the video equivalent and the audio equivalent and as one moves, they both move, and as you trim one, you trim both of them. So, what if we want to split up how we edit the video or the audio? You know it's one of the most powerful editing tricks, as we'll see in just a second, to be able to have the audio come in a little early before we actually get to the person making the audio. So, what we are going to do here is we are going to click on this first clip and we are going to trim this. But we are going to hold down the Option key on the Mac or the Alt key on the PC, and I am going to trim just a few seconds here. I've probably trimmed a little bit too much, but I am going to drag this other clip in. Now, I realize that we could have done this with an overlay edit, but I wanted you to see…
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