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Temporarily Unlink Audio and Video by pressing the Alt key as you click on the end of the audio or video portion of a linked clip and you can drag only the audio or video.
Zoom in and out using the slider at the bottom left of the timeline or using the "+" and "-" keys, also the "\" key to view the entire timeline.

Removing and closing the gaps is easy, right-click a gap and click Ripple Delete (so named because its effect ripples through the entire sequence). Ripple Delete removes the gap by sliding all the material after the gap to the left.  You can also choose this method to remove clips without leaving a "hole" in your sequence

The basic rule of thumb when selecting project settings is: Match settings to your source material and not to the final output. Even if your goal is to create a low-resolution video to run on the Internet, wait until you finish editing and then reduce the output quality settings.

 

Before capturing you should critically view your raw footage and look for "keeper" clips and sequences, the best interview sound bites, and any natural sound that will enhance your production. The purpose is twofold: to better manage media "assets" and to speed up the video capture process.

The layout of Premiere Pro can be summarized into 5 basic areas:

The Project Window  - This is where you store and access your original video clips, your raw footage, as well as audio files, graphics and sequences (new name for timelines). It uses bins (Adobe's name for file folders) to organize your "assets." Clicking the Effects tab in the Project Window opens the Effects Palette, effects include scene transitions, such as dissolves and wipes; video effects to alter the appearance of your clips; audio cross fade transitions; and numerous audio effects to spice up your sound.

5 minutes of DV quality footage equates to 1 gigabyte of space. Once your media drive is more than 80% full the performance of the drive begins to suffer. Ensure all unnecessary files are removed and that the drive is “defragmented” regularly. 

I have found this to be true over the years, funny unexplainable problems can be fixed by clearing out the hard drive.  I have heard one or two techs at editing companies and the like suggest that once a drive gets over 50% full its performance starts dropping off!!  Seems particularly  problematic on laptops.

I have a “skeleton” directory on my edit machine that contains all the folders and files I would use in a typical project this way it is easy to find files when I come back to a project after a period of time. Mine looks something like this: