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Trimming with the JKL technique - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: EPK Editing: 2 Creative Editing and Fine-Tuning
Trimming with the JKL technique
There's one more, keyboard shortcut I'd really like to share with you, that a lot of editors miss unless they come from, perhaps, another system like Avid Media Composer, that has had it for a long time. And that's JKL trimming. Now, in Adobe Speak, this is referred to as dynamic trimming. I suppose because they wanted to differentiate the feature from, the Avid Media Composer version. But let's take a look at how it works. Instead of single clicking to add a trim handle to the end of this clip, instead, I'm going to double-click. And when I double-click, this is going to open up the, trim monitor mode. I'm now seeing, the end of the clip on the left of the cut and the beginning of the clip on the right of the cut. Now, I can click and drag here. Let me double click again. I can click and drag up in the, program monitor. And I like this mode, because you get a nice big area to click on. Again, instead of having this rather fiddly item on the timeline, you can click anywhere in this…
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