Instructor: Hey Steven,
and anyone else watching this video.
Steven had a question in the Premiere Pro course
about linking video and audio tracks
and using the Razor blade tool.
He was confused because
he was trying to link layers,
and when he was using the Razor blade tool,
which is C on your keyboard for the shortcut,
it wasn't cutting through
all the layers that he linked.
So let me show you what should be happening.
I'm a little confused to why
it wouldn't be cutting through all your layers.
These 2 clips right now are linked.
If I press command L on my keyboard,
that should be control L if you are on a PC,
I'm on a Mac,
it unlinks them, right?
Because now I can just select 1
of the audio or video clips
and it doesn't select the other.
If I link them by selecting both of them
and pressing command L,
or right-clicking,
you can say right click and then unlink,
or select multiple clips and then link,
they should be connected,
and now if I use the Razor blade tool
it cuts all of them.
If I unlink them, use the Razor blade tool,
I can't cut all of them just with 1 click.
What I can do is actually
hold down the shift button,
which brings up the double Razor blade tool,
which actually cuts through all the layers.
So this might be a fix if you are trying to do it
with multiple clips and it's not
working with the linking.
If you take your razor tool and you press shift,
even if your clips aren't linked,
it cuts through them.
Now let's take this a step farther
and let's take this clip
and we're just going to put it on top like this,
and if I select all of these and then link them,
well at first I'm going to have to unlink them
and then select them again and link them.
Now they're all linked.
And if I click on any one of these little clips
it's going to select the other ones,
and I can move it around.
If I take my Razor blade tool,
just the normal one,
I am not pressing shift now,
it should cut through all of them.
So that's what you should be seeing.
If not, I'm not exactly sure what's going on.
Just make sure that it is properly linked.
Again, though, if we unlink these,
so I'm going to just press command L to unlink,
now they are unlinked.
If I press the C button to bring up
my Razor blade tool,
it doesn't cut through all of them,
but if I press the shift
while having the Razor tool up,
it can cut through all of them.
So like I said,
that could be a quick fix for you
if you are trying to just cut
through a bunch of clips.
If this doesn't answer your question
or if for some reason the linking
you are actually linking,
which I trust that you are,
and it's still not working, let me know.
Otherwise, I'll have to do some research
on the Adobe forums to see if anyone else
is having issues like this,
because I haven't run into it before.
Thanks so much for watching,
and thanks for being a part of the class.
We'll see you in another lesson.