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Performing top and tail edits - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Premiere Pro 2025 Essential Training
Performing top and tail edits
All types of trimming involve adding or removing frames from the shots in your sequence. And so far, we've been using various tools to accomplish this through standard trims and ripples and rolls and slips and slides, many of which are found within tools in this tool palette. But I'd like to introduce you to another type of trim that's just a keystroke away, and that's top and tail editing. I'm gonna load my pre-top tail sequence. And we've seen this before. This is a roughed in version of our interview segments. Everything is basically in the right order, but things are pretty messy in terms of where shots begin and end. It needs to be cleaned up quite a bit. So I'm going to zoom in here and I'll play over this first shot. When you're on the land and you're farming, your life is full and it's... All right, so we need to remove frames from both the head and the tail of the shot. We could just perform a standard trim like so, but let me show you how to do this with top and tail…
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