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Hover the pointer between the two preview screens. It turns into the Rolling 
Edit tool.
10
Drag the Rolling Edit tool left and right to change the Out and In points of the 
left and right clips, respectively. Notice how both clips move and the clips are 
in sync.
11
Close the Trim panel by clicking the Close button in its upper-right corner.
Using other editing tools
The Tools panel appears by default in the upper-left corner of the Adobe 
Premiere Pro workspace. As with any other panel, you can dock it or make it its 
own floating window. Generally, editors like to keep the tools near the Timeline, 
because that is where they’re used most often.
Selection
Ripple Edit
Rate Stretch
Slip
Pen
Zoom
Track Select
Rolling Edit
Razor
Slide
Hand
Here’s a brief rundown of the Tools panel’s editing tools (the keyboard shortcut let-
ters are shown in parentheses):
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Selection (V)
: This is a multipurpose, all-around aid. You use it frequently to 
drag, drop, select, and trim clips.
t
Track Select (A)
: Not to be confused with the Selection tool, the Track Select 
tool enables you to select all clips to the right of wherever you position it 
on a video or audio track. You can Shift-click to select other tracks. After 
you’ve selected them, you can slide them, delete them, cut/paste them, or 
copy/paste them.
t
Ripple Edit (B)
: You’ve worked with this many times already. A ripple edit trims 
a clip and shifts subsequent clips in the track by the amount you trimmed.
t
Rolling Edit (N)
: A rolling edit trims adjacent Out and In points simul-
taneously and by the same number of frames. This effectively moves the edit 

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LESSON 5
Creating Cuts-Only Videos
point between clips, preserving other clips’ positions in time and maintaining 
the total duration of the sequence. You did this in the Trim panel in a previous 
exercise in this lesson.