CHAPTER 4
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Editing Video
Using named subclips and unnamed instances of clips
You can use a clip multiple times in the Timeline. The original source clip is called a master
clip, and each time you add the same master clip to the Timeline, you create a new instance
of that master clip. Premiere automatically keeps track of each instance of a clip, but doesn’t
list them in the Project window. If you want a clip instance to be listed in the Project
window, create a subclip. A subclip is useful when many or all of the scenes you want to use
are in one long clip. Instead of capturing each scene separately and managing a number of
different captured files, you can simply capture one long clip and create a named subclip
for each scene.
A master clip is a reference to an actual file on disk. An instance refers to the master clip
in the project, so if you delete the master clip, its instances are also deleted. A subclip is an
independent duplicate of its master clip that refers directly to the source file on disk, so if
you delete the master clip, subclips created from it remain in the project. Creating a subclip
doesn’t create any new files on disk. Other than the differences described here, working with
instances and subclips is the same as working with a master clip.
When you double-click an instance or a subclip in the Timeline, it appears in the Source
view and is added to the Source view menu, which identifies each subclip by name, and
each instance by the timecode of its program In point (where the source In point appears
in the program).
To create a subclip:
1 In the Project window, select the clip for which you want to create a named subclip.
2 If you want to create a subclip for just a portion of the master clip, double-click the clip
to open it, and set the In point and Out point to define the frames you want to include in
the subclip. See “Editing In and Out points” on page 148.
3 Choose Project > Create > Subclip.
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