Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0

Trim titles

To trim all instances of a title throughout a movie, use the Project view of the Tasks panel. To trim an individual instance of a title, select it in the Sceneline or the Timeline. Trimming an instance affects the length of the title instance in the Timeline, not the length of the original clip in the Tasks panel.

Trim all instances of a title

  1. In the Edit tab of the Tasks panel, click Media  , and then click Project.
  2. Double-click the title in the Tasks panel. The title opens in the Preview window.
  3. In the Preview window, do one of the following:

    • Drag either the Set In handle   or the Set Out handle  to trim the title.

    • Drag the current-time indicator to the desired location and click either the Set In button  or the Set Out button  to establish a new in point or out point.

  4. In the Preview window, click the Close button .

Adobe Premiere Elements saves the trimmed title in the Tasks panel.

Trim an individual title instance from the Monitor panel

  1. In the Sceneline, select the title clip or the clip on which the title is superimposed.
  2. In the Monitor panel, right-click, choose Select, and choose the name of the title to be trimmed. A representation of the title appears in the Monitor panel’s mini-timeline as a lavender bar containing the title filename.

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    A title in the Monitor panel’s mini-timeline

  3. In the Monitor panel, drag either the Set In handle or the Set Out handle  of the title representation to trim the title.

Trim an individual title instance from the Timeline

  1. In the Timeline, locate the title to be trimmed in one of the video tracks. You might need to drag the video track scroll bar to expose the title.
  2. Hover the cursor over either end of the title until it changes to the ripple trim cursor . Then drag the end of the title to trim it. Gaps are closed automatically. If you created a black video clip for your title, you’ll need to trim that too.

    To trim without closing the gap, Ctrl-drag the clip end instead.