Trim preferences

Last updated on Jun 23, 2025

Learn how to adjust trim preferences in Adobe Premiere Pro to fine-tune editing behavior, improve precision, and streamline your video editing workflow.

Trim preference refers to the settings and configurations related to the trimming of clips within Premiere Pro.

The Preferences dialog is open to the Trim panel, where you can adjust settings that control the behavior of the Trim Monitor and playback during trimming operations in Premiere Pro.
Select Trim to adjust your trimming preferences.

UI option

Function

Large Trim Offset

The Trim Monitor includes Large Trim Offset buttons. Clicking one of these buttons moves a trim point earlier or later. In the Trim section of the Preferences dialog box, you can specify the number of frames that the Large Trim Offset buttons move trim points.

Allow Selection tool to choose Roll and Ripple trims without modifier key

Enable this preference if you want to make ripple and rolling edits without using a modifier key.

Shift clips that overlap trim point during ripple trimming

Enable this preference to shift the overlapping track items during a ripple delete.

Ripple trim adds edits to keep both sides of trim in sync

Enable this preference to add edits to clips that overlap a trim. These added edit points will then be trimmed alongside the selected edit points you are trimming to prevent clips from shifting out of alignment on either side of the edit.  

Playhead position determines trim monitor loop playback

Enable this preference to loop playback around the playhead position instead of the entire edit point selection.