Choose Timeline > Snap. A check mark indicates that the option is enabled.
- Reduce noise
- Select object
- Candid Moments
- Color Match
- Smart Trim
- Change clip speed and duration
- Split clips
- Freeze and hold frames
- Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit
- Stabilize video footage with Shake Stabilizer
- Replace footage
- Working with source clips
- Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit
- Trim clips
- Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
- Artistic effects
- Effects reference
- Applying and removing effects
- Create a black and white video with a color pop - Guided Edit
- Time remapping - Guided edit
- Effects basics
- Working with effect presets
- Finding and organizing effects
- Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
- Fill Frame - Guided edit
- Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
- Best practices to create a time-lapse video
- Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
- Transparency and superimposing
- Reposition, scale, or rotate clips with the Motion effect
- Apply an Effects Mask to your video
- Adjust temperature and tint
- Create a Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit
- Create a picture-in-picture overlay
- Applying effects using Adjustment layers
- Adding Title to your movie
- Removing haze
- Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit
- Create a Vignetting effect
- Add a Split Tone Effect
- Add FilmLooks effects
- Add an HSL Tuner effect
- Fill Frame - Guided edit
- Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
- Animated Sky - Guided edit
- Select object
- Animated Mattes - Guided Edit
- Double exposure- Guided Edit
- Creating titles
- Adding shapes and images to titles
- Adding color and shadows to titles
- Apply Gradients
- Create Titles and MOGRTs
- Add responsive design
- Editing and formatting text
- Align and transform objects
- Motion Titles
- Appearance of text and shapes
- Exporting and importing titles
- Arranging objects in titles
- Designing titles for TV
- Applying styles to text and graphics
- Adding a video in the title
- Adobe Premiere Elements User Guide
- Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements
- Workspace and workflow
- Working with projects
- Importing and adding media
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Editing clips
- Reduce noise
- Select object
- Candid Moments
- Color Match
- Smart Trim
- Change clip speed and duration
- Split clips
- Freeze and hold frames
- Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit
- Stabilize video footage with Shake Stabilizer
- Replace footage
- Working with source clips
- Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit
- Trim clips
- Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
- Artistic effects
- Color Correction and Grading
- Applying transitions
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Special effects basics
- Effects reference
- Applying and removing effects
- Create a black and white video with a color pop - Guided Edit
- Time remapping - Guided edit
- Effects basics
- Working with effect presets
- Finding and organizing effects
- Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
- Fill Frame - Guided edit
- Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
- Best practices to create a time-lapse video
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Applying special effects
- Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
- Transparency and superimposing
- Reposition, scale, or rotate clips with the Motion effect
- Apply an Effects Mask to your video
- Adjust temperature and tint
- Create a Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit
- Create a picture-in-picture overlay
- Applying effects using Adjustment layers
- Adding Title to your movie
- Removing haze
- Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit
- Create a Vignetting effect
- Add a Split Tone Effect
- Add FilmLooks effects
- Add an HSL Tuner effect
- Fill Frame - Guided edit
- Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
- Animated Sky - Guided edit
- Select object
- Animated Mattes - Guided Edit
- Double exposure- Guided Edit
- Special audio effects
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Movie titles
- Creating titles
- Adding shapes and images to titles
- Adding color and shadows to titles
- Apply Gradients
- Create Titles and MOGRTs
- Add responsive design
- Editing and formatting text
- Align and transform objects
- Motion Titles
- Appearance of text and shapes
- Exporting and importing titles
- Arranging objects in titles
- Designing titles for TV
- Applying styles to text and graphics
- Adding a video in the title
- Disc menus
- Sharing and exporting your movies
Learn to edit and arrange clips professionally using the Advanced View Timeline in Premiere Elements.
Advance view timeline overview
The Advanced view timeline graphically represents your movie project as video and audio clips arranged vertically stacked tracks. When you capture video from a digital video device, the clips appear sequentially as they occur.
The Advanced view timeline uses a time ruler to display the components of your movie and their relation with each other over time. You can trim and add scenes, indicate important frames with markers, add transitions, and control how clips are blended or superimposed.
The zoom controls on the Advanced view timeline let you zoom out to see your entire video or zoom in to see clips in more detail. You can also change how the clips appear in the tracks and resize the tracks and the header area.
To edit to edit crisp and awesome videos quickly in Premiere Elements by understanding various panels and workspace, see Workspace.
Tracks in the Advanced view timeline
Tracks let you layer video or audio and add compositing effects, overlay titles, soundtracks, and more. You can add narration and background music to another track with multiple audio tracks. The final movie combines all the video and audio tracks.
By default, the Advanced view timeline contains three video (or images) and audio tracks. You can drag linked clips (clips that include both audio and video) to a track.
The video and audio components of linked clips appear together (the video and the audio) in their respective tracks (such as Video1 and Audio1). You may have to scroll up or down the Advanced View timeline to see the tracks.
If you drag and release a clip above the topmost video track, a new track is inserted. There is no limit to the number of tracks a project can contain. You can add or delete tracks anytime, even before adding clips.
A movie must contain at least one of each type of track (the track can be empty). The video track order is important because any clip in Video 2 also overlays the Video 1 track. Audio tracks are combined in playback, so the track order isn't relevant.
To know how to add Music Scores and Narrations to the Advanced Timeline, see Add Music Scores and Create Narrations.
Advanced view timeline tools
Use the Advanced View Tools in the program monitor to play a clip, stop playback, or change playback speed. Use the panels in the Action bar to add titles, transitions, special effects, and music. You can also add markers, open the Audio Mixer, or add narration. To know more about Audio Mixer, Time Remapping and Color Correction and Grading, see Tools.
Quick Tools in Advanced View Timeline
Quick Tools in Advanced View Timeline help streamline the editing process, allowing you to work more efficiently within the timeline. These tools provide quick access to common functions like trimming, editing, rearranging clips, and more directly from the timeline.
Selection Tool
- Function: The default tool used to select clips, move them around, or adjust their start and end points.
- Use: Click on clips to select, drag to move, and hover over the edges to trim.
Track Select Forward/Backward Tool
- Function: Selects all clips forward or backward from the point you click, making it easy to move entire sections of your sequence.
- Use: Use when reorganizing large portions of your timeline quickly.
Ripple Edit Tool
- Function: Trims clips and automatically closes gaps created in the timeline, keeping the sequence intact.
- Use: Use this when you want to shorten or lengthen a clip without affecting the overall sequence flow.
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Ripple Delete: Backspace (Win)/ Delete (macOS)
Clear: Delete (Win) or use the Delete button in Program Monitor (both Win and macOS)
Rate Stretch Tool
- Function: Adjusts the speed of a clip by dragging its edge, effectively speeding up or slowing down the clip while keeping the overall sequence duration.
- Use: Perfect for fitting clips into specific durations without manually adjusting speed settings.
Scissor Tool
- Function: Cuts clips at the playhead position or any point on the timeline.
- Use: Quickly split clips into smaller sections for precise editing.
Text Tool
- Function: Allows you to add text directly to the timeline.
- Use: Click on the program monitor to create text titles and graphics directly in your sequence.
Remix Tool
- Function: Adjusts the duration of a music track to match the length of your video while maintaining the natural flow of the music.
- Use: Click the Remix Tool (found under the Ripple Edit Tool) and drag the edge of a music clip to extend or shorten it. The tool automatically rearranges the music seamlessly..
Rectangle Tool
- Function: Directly add rectangle shapes in the timeline, which can be used as overlays, backgrounds, or design elements.
- Use: Select the Rectangle Tool from the toolbar. Click and drag on the Program Monitor to draw a shape. Customize the shape's color, size, and position in the Titles and Shapes panel.
For more information on using Keyboard Shortcuts for the above-mentioned Quick Tools in Advanced View Timeline, see Keyboard Customisation.
Add a clip to the timeline
You can add clips to a sequence in the following ways:
Drag the clip from the Project Assets panel to the Advanced View Timeline panel or the Program Monitor.
Use the Insert and Overwrite buttons in the Source Monitor from the contextual menu to add clips to the Timeline panel.
In project assets, we can right-click > Insert into Timeline.
An overwrite edit adds a clip by replacing any frames already in a sequence starting from the edit point and extending for the length of the clip. Overwrite is the default method when dragging a clip to a sequence or when rearranging clips in a sequence.
With an insert edit, adding a clip to the sequence forces any clips later in time to shift forward to accommodate the new clip. When dragging a clip, press the Ctrl (Windows) or Command (macOS) key to shift into insert mode.
Align clips by using the Snap option
The Snap option, which is enabled by default, makes it easier to align clips with each other or with particular points in time. You can move a clip with the Snap option selected. The clip automatically aligns with the edge of another clip, a marker, the start and end of the time ruler, or the current‑time indicator.
Snapping also helps ensure that you don’t inadvertently perform an insert or overlay edit when dragging. As you drag clips, a pop‑up window displays the distance, in frames, that you have moved them. A negative number indicates you’ve moved them toward the beginning of the movie.
Drag video and audio to the Timeline
By default, when dropped into a sequence, the video and audio components of clips appear in corresponding tracks (for example, Video 1 and Audio 1) unless the clip's audio channel type is incompatible with the target track. In this case, the linked audio appears in the next compatible track, or a compatible track is created automatically.
An audio clip dragged to an incompatible track automatically shifts to the next compatible track, even if the track is occupied by another audio clip. Therefore, take care not to disturb clips already in the sequence.
However, you can alter this behavior by holding the Shift key while you drag.
The Program Monitor can help you determine where to position a clip you’re adding to a sequence. During an overwrite edit, it displays the frames in the sequence adjacent to the new clip’s head and tail. During an insert edit, it displays the frames adjacent to the insertion point.
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(Optional) Open a clip in the Source Monitor, and mark its In and Out points.
Note:If you don’t want to set In and Out points, you can drag the clip directly from the Project Assets panel or the preview thumbnail in the Project Assets panel.
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To make clip edges align when you drag them, ensure the Snap button is active in a Timeline panel.
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Do one of the following:
To drag the video and audio portions of a clip to specific tracks, drag the clip from the Source Monitor or Project panel into a Timeline. When the video portion of the clip lies above the desired video track, press and hold Shift. Continue holding shift, and drag downward past the bar separating video and audio tracks. When the audio portion of the clip lies above the desired audio track, release the mouse and release Shift.
To drag the video portion of a clip to the Video 1 track and the audio to any audio track, drag the clip from the Source Monitor or Project panel past the line that separates the video tracks from the audio tracks. Drop the clip above the audio track where you want the audio portion to land. The video portion of the clip will remain in the Video 1 track, and the audio portion lands in the desired audio track.
To perform an overwrite edit, drag the clip from the Source Monitor or Project panel to an appropriate track in a Timeline panel at the point you want the clip to start. The destination area is highlighted, and the pointer appears with the Overwrite icon
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To perform an insert edit, Ctrl-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (macOS) the clip from the Source Monitor or Project panel to an appropriate track in a Timeline panel at the point you want the clip to start. The destination area is highlighted, and the pointer appears with the Insert icon
. Arrows appear at the insertion point in all tracks.
To perform an insert edit and shift tracks, Ctrl+Alt-drag (Windows) or Command+Option-drag (macOS) the clip from the Source Monitor or Project panel to an appropriate track in a Timeline panel at the point you want the clip to start. The destination area is highlighted, and the pointer appears with the Insert icon
. Arrows appear at the insertion point only in the tracks to which the clip is added.
(Roman keyboards only) To zoom into or out of a clip as you drop it into a Timeline panel, drag and press the equal sign key (=) to increase the zoom factor or press the minus sign key (–) to decrease it. Do not use the keys on the number pad.
The clip will land in a Timeline panel, and a Timeline panel will become active, making it easy to playback the clip just added to the sequence.
Tip:Press Ctrl (win)/ Command (Mac) while dragging or Moving a clip in Timeline to Insert the clip.
Few Keyboard Shortcuts for Timeline
- Increase/ Decrease Video track Height: Ctrl+= / Ctrl+-
- Increase/ Decrease Audio track Height: Alt+= / Alt+-
- Go to next Edit Point: Up/Down
- Fit To Timeline: \
- Nudge Clip Selection Five Frames left/ right: Alt+Shift+Left/Right
- Add Edit (Cut): Ctrl +K
- Add Edit to All Tracks: Ctrl + Shift+K
- Expand/Minimize All tracks: Shift +/-
Move clips
You can place clips in playback order to create a sequence in a Timeline panel. You can also change the order of clips once they are there, replace them, remove them, or insert additional clips.
Move clips in a Timeline panel
You can drag a clip and place it in an empty spot or snap it to another clip. You can also insert and overwrite clips that you move. Watch the translucent rectangle that represents the clip’s duration as you drag it. To move multiple clips, select a range of clips, or move a group of clips. A tool tip displays the amount of time moved as you drag. The window displays a negative number if you drag the clip toward the beginning of the sequence, and a positive number if toward the end.
Overwrite is the default mode and is indicated by the Overwrite icon when dragging clips. Pressing Ctrl (Windows) or Command (macOS) as you drop a clip performs an insert edit. The Insert icon
appears when you drag clips while pressing Ctrl (Windows) or Command (macOS).
By default, you can change the track location of either portion of a clip, audio or video, by dragging that portion. The other portion will remain in its original track. When you drag a part of a clip vertically into a new track, it will snap to its original time location in the new track, if Snap is turned on.
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Do one of the following:
To move the audio portion of a clip to a different track, drag the audio portion of the clip vertically to the destination audio track.
To move the video portion of a clip to a different track, drag the video portion of the clip vertically to the destination video track.
To move the video portion of a clip to Video 1 and move the audio portion to a different audio track, drag the video portion downward past the bar separating video and audio tracks. The video portion will remain in Video 1 while the audio portion will land in the audio track where you drop it.
To move the audio portion of a clip to Audio 1 and move the video portion to a different video track, drag the audio portion upward past the bar separating video and audio tracks. The audio portion will remain in Audio 1 while the video portion will land in the video track where you drop it.
To overwrite other clips, drag one or more clips and drop them on the track where the other clips are located.
To move only one track of a linked clip, press Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS) and drag the part of the clip, audio or video, you want to move. You don't need to hold the Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS) key after you initiate the edit. The video and audio will lose sync.
To insert, drag one or more clips, and press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (macOS) as you release the mouse button and drop the clip or clips into a new location. Clips in all tracks to the right of the drop point shift to the right of the inserted clips. A gap remains in the track from which you move the inserted clips.
Move clips using the keypad
You can change the position of a clip in a sequence by typing the number of frames that you want to move.
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Select the clip in the sequence.
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Using your numeric keypad with Num Lock on, type + (plus) and the number of frames that you want to move the clip to the right, or type ‑ (minus) and the number of frames you want to move the clip to the left. Then, press Enter (Windows) or Return (macOS).
If any gaps exist between clips, those gaps are filled first. Then, the selected clip overwrites adjacent clips by the remaining number of frames.
Copy and paste at the playhead
You can copy and paste one or more clips at a time. The relative spacing (both horizontal spacing in time, and vertical spacing in tracks) of clips is maintained. You can paste and insert copies of clips into tracks, at any new playhead locations.
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Select one or more clips in the sequence, and choose Edit > Copy.
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In the Timeline panel, position the playhead at the point in the sequence where you want to paste a copy of the clips.
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Do one of the following:
To overwrite the pasted clips, choose Edit > Paste.
To insert the pasted clips, choose Edit > Paste Insert.
The clip or clips are pasted into the sequence, and the playhead jumps to the end of the pasted clip or clips.
Copy and paste clips by dragging in the Timeline
You can copy and paste clips by dragging them and holding down a modifier key to a different place in the Timeline.
To copy and paste clips to a new place in the Timeline, do the following:
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First, select the clip in Timeline, press Alt Key, and then drag it to a new location.
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Select one or more clips in the sequence, and then drag them to a new location in the Timeline. You can drag them horizontally or vertically.
After dropping the clips in a new location, they are duplicated.
When dragging clips with the Alt or Option key modifier in the Timeline, you can do the following:
You can duplicate either the video or audio portion of clips if you Alt-click (Windows), or Option-click (macOS) the clips, and then drag them to a new place in the Timeline.
You can hold down the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (macOS) as you're dragging to copy and paste clips to a new place in the Timeline.
If a clip is already selected, clicking Alt key (Windows) or Option key (macOS) will no longer select the audio or video portion of a clip, the clip must be deselected first.
Clear and Ripple Delete clips
Clear allows you to delete a clip, leaving the gap behind. Clearing the clip leaves a space or gap where the clip used to be. The other clips in your timeline remain in their original positions, meaning that no automatic adjustments are made to fill the gap created by the deletion.
Ripple Delete allows you to delete a clip and automatically close the gap left behind. First, you can use this feature to select the clip or clips you want to delete. You can do this by clicking on the clip in the timeline. Once the clip is selected, right-click on it and choose 'Ripple Delete' from the drop-down menu.
Ripple Delete: Backspace (Win) and Delete (macOS)
Clear: Delete (Win) or use the Delete button in Program Monitor (both Windows and macOS)
Enable/Disable a Clip in the Timeline
Enable Clip option is used to toggle the visibility and playback of a clip in the timeline. This is useful for temporarily turning off a clip without deleting it from your project, allowing you to see how your sequence looks with or without that particular clip.
How to Enable/Disable a Clip in the Timeline:
Locate the Clip:
- Find the clip in the timeline you want to enable or disable.
Right-click on the Clip:
- Right-click directly on the clip in the timeline. This will open a context menu with various options related to that clip.
Select Enable:
- In the context menu, look for the option labeled Enable. If the clip is currently enabled, this option will have a checkmark next to it.
- To disable the clip, click on Enable to uncheck it. This will turn off the clip, making it invisible in the playback and preventing it from rendering or being included in the final export.
- Verify Clip Status:
- Once you select Enable, the checkmark will disappear, indicating that the clip is now disabled.
- To re-enable the clip, repeat the process and select Enable again. The clip will become visible and active in the timeline.
Grouping and Ungrouping Clips
Grouping and ungrouping clips in Premiere Elements allows you to manage multiple clips as a single unit. This is particularly useful for maintaining synchronization between related clips, such as audio and video, or for organizing your timeline more effectively. Here’s a detailed guide on how to group and ungroup clips in Premiere Elements:
How to Group Clips:
Select the Clips:
- Click and drag a selection box around the clips you want to group, or hold down the Shift key and click on each clip individually to select multiple clips.
Right-Click and Group:
- With the clips selected, right-click on one of the selected clips to open the context menu.
- Choose Group from the menu. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + G (Windows) or Cmd + G (Mac).
Verify Grouping:
- The selected clips are now grouped. When you move, trim, or apply effects to one clip, the changes will simultaneously affect all clips in the group.
- Group is highlighted by selecting any clip in the group.
How to Ungroup Clips:
Select the Grouped Clips:
- Click on one of the clips within the group to select it. This will select the entire group.
Right-Click and Ungroup:
- Right-click on one of the grouped clips to open the context menu.
- Choose Ungroup from the menu. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + G (Windows) or Cmd + Shift + G (Mac).
Verify Ungrouping:
- The clips are now ungrouped and can be edited individually. The group indicator will no longer be visible.
Info Panel
The Info panel shows the file information of a selected clip.
To open this panel, select any clip-on timeline or project assets and select Window > Info.
The Info panel displays data about a selected item and timecode information for clips under the current-time indicator in the Timeline. At the top of the panel, information is displayed for the current selection. This information varies depending on its media type, the active panel, etc. For example, the Info panel displays information unique to a space in a Timeline panel or a clip in the Project panel.
Video; Indicates frame rate, frame size, and pixel aspect ratio in that order.
Audio: Indicates sample rate, bit depth, and channels in that order.
Tape: Indicates the name of the tape.
In: Indicates the Inpoint timecode of the selected clip.
Out: Indicates the Outpoint timecode of the selected clip.
Duration: Indicates the duration of the selected clip.
The Info panel in Premiere Elements 2025 now shows the Sequence information.