Click Add media to import the video clip that you want to split. Or, select the video clip, if it is already present, from the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline.
Last updated on
13 Jan 2022
- Adobe Premiere Elements User Guide
- Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements
- Workspace and workflow
- Working with projects
- Importing and adding media
- Arranging clips
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
You might want to apply different effects to different parts of a clip. For example, to speed up the first part but leave the second part at normal speed. To do this, you cut a clip into separate pieces, and then apply effects and transitions to those pieces. You can split a clip in a movie by using the Split Clip button adjacent to the current-time indicator. It cuts one or more selected clips at the current‑time indicator.
Splitting a clip divides it into two parts, creating a new and separate instance of the original clip. If the clip is linked to another clip, a new instance of the linked clip is created as well.
The two resulting clips, when combined, represent the original clip. The resulting clips are full versions of the original clip, but with the In or Out points changed to match the location marked by the tool. You can select and delete these clips.
Note:
If you want to change effect settings over time, you don’t have to split the clip. You can apply keyframes to a single clip instead.
Split a clip
You can split a clip at any frame, creating one clip that ends, and another that begins, at that frame. You can edit the two resulting clips as you would any other clips.
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(Optional) Click the Fit to Visible Timeline button or press \ to view all the frames in your video clip. Alternatively, zoom in to the video clip, by dragging the zoom button to the right or pressing =.
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Drag the current-time indicator to the frame where you want to create the split.
A. Current-time indicator
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Split the clip by clicking the Split Clip button adjacent to the current-time indicator line.
A. Split Clip button
Alternatively, to split the clip, press Cmd/Ctrl + K or choose Timeline > Split Clip.
Two new clips replace the original clip, one ending at and the other beginning from the current-time indicator line.
Split layered clips
You can simultaneously split two or more layered clips (clips that overlap in the Expert view timeline).
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Switch to the Expert view timeline.
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Click Add media to import the video clips that you want to split. Or, select the video clips, if those are already present, from the Expert view timeline.
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(Optional) Click the Fit to Visible Timeline button or press \ to view all the frames in your video clips. Alternatively, zoom in to the video clips, by dragging the zoom button to the right or pressing =.
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Drag a marquee to select clips, on different tracks, that overlap at a point in time.
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Drag the current-time indicator to the frames where you want to make the split.
A. Current-time indicator
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Split the clips by clicking the Split Clip button adjacent to the current-time indicator line.
A. Split Clip button
Alternatively, to split the clips, press Cmd/Ctrl + K or choose Timeline > Split Clip.
New clips replace the original clips, ending at and beginning from the current-time indicator line.
