I recently got the program and when I'm editing in timeline and I try to put one shot after another the clip doesn't "snap" on making it much harder to clips after each other and sync them to beats in the music. Sorry for the poor discription but I really need help.
When placing a clip in the timeline next to another, try (while placing it, before releasing the mouse-button) to get it as close as the previous clip, and it should "snap" to it. Does this work for you?
However, if you are having problems with such a basic procedure, you should use the help menu of the program in order to get help, or you should search for some basic video tutorials that will demonstrate these procedures.
The S key toggle has gotten a lot of folk. It's easy to accidentally hit it, and one is not really aware that they have toggled Snap. Maybe Neale can educate me here, but PrPro also has a Snap icon, that shows when Snap is enabled. One can use it, or can use the S key. At least in that program, one can see the Snap icon, and it'll tell them when Snap has been turned ON, or OFF. Does PrE 9 have a Snap icon (along with the S key)? PrE 4 only had the menu Timeline>Snap or the S key.
Also a caveat. With Snap ON, be a bit gentle, when butting Clips up. If one "slams" the Clips into each other, a Frame, or two, of the preceding Clip can be sheared off, and it goes to the end of the Timeline, where it can very easily become an "Orphan," causing the Timeline's Duration to be longer, than one intends.
Thanks for the confirmation. I knew that there was not one in PrE 4.0, though the contemporary PrPro 2.0 had it. Some features trickle down from PrPro to PrE, and I did not know if that was one.
Then, it seems that the only way to know the Snap Mode is to go to the Timeline>Snap drop-down menu from the Toolbar and look to see if Snap is checked.
Found this in 2023, and it saved me! Pressing the S key will still make clips snap together. With all of the changes in the last few years, glad this one still works! Thank you so much!!
In the newest version - Premiere Pro CC 2017 - you simply click on the space between the two clips and hit the "Backspace" button or "Delete". This will take all the footage after that gap and snap it back to the ending of the previous clip.
Another way to do it - but this is more tedious - is to highlight all the clips you want to move back in the sequence. Then take your cursor and drag the highlighted section to the ending of the previous clip. Little triangles should appear on top and below the place where your two clips meet. This means there are no breaks in the sequence nor overlaps. They will mesh perfectly.
One easy way that I've sometimes found useful is to "widen" the view area of the split but moving the Zoom-In slider to the right and dragging the right clip to the connection point. That's somewhat of a hack, but it works in all versions of PRE.
There is a magnet button in the editing view on the top left above your clip sequencing area. You can click it on or off. Or it is the hot key (S) when over your work.
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