Alright, so we know how to remove stuff from our Timeline. Now, let's learn how to start adjusting things already on a Timeline. Conveniently, I have put a sequence in our Project panel that we are going to use to practice using these other nice tools in Adobe Premiere Pro and what I want you to do is go to your Sequences bin, twirl that down and I want you to open up the Ripple and' Roll sequence. It will open up in front of us and you will see that we have three groups of clips here. We are going to use the one on the left and I am going to demonstrate how the Ripple Tool works.
So go ahead and click in your Timeline if it's not selected, but it should be. Hit the Spacebar and let's see what we have got to work with. Alright, let's stop. I can see what the problem is. In the first shot, our jogger, she already has approached the handrail and in our next clip, she is not even there and then she approaches the handrail. What we need to do is get rid of those extra frames where the jogger is not even in the frame and trying sync up with the last clip where she has already grabbed the handrail.
Now, I could get the Razor Tool and cut that part out but I am going to show you a more sophisticated tool which is the Ripple Delete Tool. You can grab your Ripple Delete Tool in toolbox, it's this double arrow over here and before I start using it, I am going to open up our Program panel. I am going to drag this out, I am going to hold Ctrl so that it's just own panel and I am just doing this so I could show you what this Ripple Delete Tool does.
I am going to drag my Timeline down a little bit and I want to expand the Program panel. Alright, so let's see what this tool does. I am going to go over our Edit and you will notice that there is these two red brackets. Now, when the brackets go to the left, I am manipulating the clip on the left and when the brackets into the right, I am going to be manipulating the clip on the right. So make sure that those brackets are into the right and I want you to click and hold and drag a frame to the right.
Now, look at our Program panel, you will see two windows. The window on the left is the tail frame of our outgoing clip and the window on the right is the head frame of our incoming clip. Now, when I start dragging to the right what we are manipulating is that incoming head frame and as I drag to the right, you will notice that the time code changes and the action changes too. I am going to settle this action where our jogger grabs the handrail and her mp3 player is over her wrist which is right about there and I am going to let go.
Hit Home on your keyboard to bring the playhead to the beginning of the Timeline. Hit the Spacebar and let's see what we did, and that action looks nice and continuous. So that will eliminate all those steps about using the Razor Tool, cutting in appropriate spots, clearing and then ripple deleting the gap in between or moving a clip over. The Ripple Edit Tool takes care of all that for you in just one simple step.
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