How to cut your footage in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4!

Now , the whole point of an editing program is to cut your footage into parts and remove the bad parts and keep the good parts.

Now , the first thing you should do is import your footage , now first go to Adobe Premiere Pro , click file , import , or you can just right click on the Project and click import :

Now , just click import and choose your footage and then it'll show up here :

Now , there will also be a preview at the top with the video frame rate and resolution.

Now , as you see , there are 2 screens in adobe premiere pro , now if you double click on your footage it will show up in the first screen which you can edit in:

Now in the first screen , you can choose in points and out points for your video , that means where your video starts and ends . Now , to make an in point , make sure to select the first screen , until there is a thin orange line on it:

So , yeah when you select it , You can drag that little blue point so you can play your footage, now to choose an in point , just drag the blue point to the part of the footage where you want it to start and click on I on your keyboard , and this is how it will look:

And then , you can drag the blue point to where you want to end your footage press on O on your keyboard , and this is how it will look like :

And then , to drag it to the timeline , just press that button which i drew a circle around.

and then it'll show up in the timeline and in the second screen like this:

You can import more footage and make an in point and out point for it and then put it next to the first footage and that's it.
You can also cut footage buy using the cutting tools in the corner :

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