I need advice on a Premiere CS6 workflow, I'm coming from FCP7.
I have several short clips of customer testimonials.
Each must be trimmed at the beginning and end to get 10 seconds of the best part, which means that there may be speech just before the in and out points.
I need to edit them in a manner where I can fade between them without mixing the audio before the in/out points.
If I capture a single frame snapshot of the in/out points, and extend this for 12 frames, I'd be able to transition nicely.
However, that's really a pain. I'm using NeatVideo, and have to render the clips before I can capture the single frame or it will be pixelated.
And if I need to make a change in length (by customer request), I'm starting from scratch, and it's difficult to drag to get just 12 frames.
I'd tried the 'frame hold' command, but ... it never seems to hold at the out point, only at the in point.
And there doesn't seem to be a way to extend a freeze frame to the left of the in point and also to the right of the out point using 'frame hold' from the instructions I've seen.
Is there a workflow where I can rapidly edit this in CS6?