Editing Tools

Pick three of the different tools covered in this video and explain how they work in detail. Why are these tools important to learn to edit video in premiere?

    Three editing tools that were covered in the video were the cutting tool, ripple tool, and slip tool. The cutting tool is the most basic tool in editing, cutting videos and deleting or moving parts of it. However, most people stop at just using the cutting tool for everything, making the process much slower than it has to be. This is where the ripple tool comes in; the ripple tool allows you to extend or shorten the in and out of a clip while also filling in the gap that would be created, moving the clips further or closer. Most people (like myself) had started off doing this same function with just the cutting tool. This is considerably slower as you'd have to cut the clip, delete the part you didn't want, then select and slide every clip to fill in the gap. The next tool is the slip tool. This tool allows you to change when a clip starts and ends, without changing the time the clip takes. It essentially allows you to show a different part of the clip and maintain the timing. Without this tool, you would have to manually move the in and out of a clip and try to match the time it takes to what it was before. All of these tools are important to learn to edit videos in premiere as they expedite the process, making it much faster and more efficient, and also (in the case of the cutting tool) are an integral part of editing.