Using named duplicate clips and unnamed instances of clipsYou can use a clip multiple times in the Timeline. The original source clip is called a master clip, and each time you add the same master clip to the Timeline, you create a new instance of that master clip. Premiere automatically keeps track of each instance of a clip by numbering them in the Project window, but it doesn't list them. If you want a clip instance to be listed in the Project window, create a duplicate clip. A duplicate clip is useful when many or all of the scenes you want to use are in one long clip. Instead of capturing each scene separately and managing a number of different captured files, you can simply capture one long clip and create a named duplicate clip for each scene. A master clip is a reference to an actual file on disk. An instance refers to the master clip in the project, so if you delete the master clip, its instances are also deleted. A duplicate clip is an independent copy of its master clip that refers directly to the source file on disk; if you delete the master clip, duplicate clips created from it remain in the project. Creating a duplicate clip doesn't create any new files on disk. Other than the differences described here, working with instances and duplicate clips is the same as working with a master clip. When you double-click an instance or a duplicate clip in the Timeline, it appears in the Source view and is added to the Source view menu, which identifies each duplicate clip by name, and each instance by the timecode of its program In point (where the source In point appears in the program). To create a duplicate clip:
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