There are many ways to perform an edit in the sequence (clip on the timeline). The most basic is probably to select the RAZOR tool and put cuts at the beginning and end of the part you want to remove, then right-click that portion of the clip and select "Ripple Delete" and that will remove that part and close the gap.

I like the Mark In/Out and Extract method myself that I think was referred to in a link, but the Razor will get you going

Thanks

Jeff Pulera

Safe Harbor Computers

"DEL" Key usually works as well. And of course ..real magic with Shift -Del

In PPro, there are usually a number of ways of doing anything. Which method you decide to use depends on how you like to work, and to a lesser extent on how PPro wants you to work.

It seems to me that what PPro wants you to do in this situation is to drag your source file into the source monitor. Then, set your in and out points for the first bit of footage you want to use. Click on it in the source monitor, and drag it to the timeline. Then return to the source monitor, and set new in and out points for the next bit of footage you want to use. Drag and drop to the timeline. Keep doing this until you get all the clips on the timeline that you want.

You can then use the editing tools to fine tune your footage on the timeline.

There are, of course, many other ways to do it. This is just one.

I'm in a similar boat -- editing family video recorded on Hi8 and captured into DV with a Canopus ADVC-300. I typically have a 2 hour clip in the timeline.  I'm separating these into clips with the razor tool, but sometimes I want to remove a garbled few seconds from within a clip.

Today I discovered something nifty: in Keyboard options, there are two items that don't have a key assigned:

• Application->Ripple Delete->Ripple Trim Next Edit to Playhead
• Application->Ripple Delete->Ripple Trim Previous Edit to Playhead

I assigned these to the Shift+] and Shift+[ keys.   Premiere didn't warn me about these keys being assigned already, so I guess it's ok.  At first, I used '}' and '{' but I'm afraid that it is too easy to accidently hit them.

When I play back in the timeline, at the start of the garbled area I want to remove, I hit Ctrl+K to add an edit point (the "out point", I suppose). Then I continue playing.   When I reach where I want the video to resume, I just press Shift+[ and Premiere ripple-deletes to the edit point.

This does leave me with an edit point, though.  I have yet to figure out how to splice the two clips together again.

I'm sure the pros won't like this, but I find it makes things easier.

Yep, I know. But I'm going to archive the Premiere project files with the DV video on BluRay and it would be nice if all the edit points all meant something if I come back to these in a few years.    Then again, since I confirmed that DV export doesn't re-encode unchanged frame, I may just archive clips instead of entire tapes and then it doesn't matter.