2009 desktop/timeline editing

If it’s the same as Smoke… Then it’s hotkey (comma) ad hover over the clip the cursor should turn to a slip icon 0_0.

BKM

I got that far, but what holding comma does is shift the shot forward or backwards in the timeline, it doesn’t slip the shot within it’s own edit duration.

does this make sense?

-rand

that’s what I’m talking about!

thanks Tim!

here’s another one for you: when in timeline view and you are shortening, or lengthening a dissolve is there anyway to see visually how many frames you are slipping the transition?

-rand

hi rand

i’m not exactly sure i’m understanding you, but here’s a few things:

use the “B” & “N” hotkeys. they are for “back” and “next” edit mark. you can zip along pretty quickly on the Timeline with these. if you B or N to an edit mark and you DONT have either segment selected,( no yellow highlight color on the segsments) over on the lower left screen where your softFX menus usually appear, it will switch to “CUT” “DISSOLVE” “WIPE” “AXIS” buttons. and if you hit the “dissolve” button it will activate a llittle rectangle that spans the 2 shots. if your editing submenu is activated (little blue LED on “editing” button under the exit play button) you will see a field for dialing in a dissolve duration. (it’s the blank blue field directly below “Value Abs” ) entering different amount will interactively scale the size of the dissolve icon (little rectangle bisected by a diagonal).

Now… if you would like to edit the duration of the dissolve a little more accurately you can do this. go in to your hotkey editor (CTRL + ALT + F8) and enter the word “zoom” in the search field. it will locate all instances of zoom hotkeys. for some reason, the rectangle zoom hotkey is not mapped to anything, which sucks because it’s really handy for timeline tweaking. what i do is clear the hotkey entry for “continuous zoom” and save. then exit the hotkey editor. (CTRL + ALT + F8 again) now if you CTRL + SPACE and DRAG a rectangle around the dissolve icon on your timeline, you will zoom way in on it. once zoomed in you can more easily grab one side of the dissolve (provided you have enough head/tail trim to support some trimming) and just drag it. you will see the “T” and “H” amounts change interactively as you drag one side of the dissolve icon, telling you how many frames you’ve trimmed the dissolve. if you want to trim your dissolve WITHOUT changing the edit point, deselect “link transition” and then you can slip / trim the dissolve while leaving the original timing of the segments. finally, if you want really be cool, you can map a hotkey for the “home” button (lower rt hand corner) to get you back out to your full un-zoomed, timeline veiw.

does any of this help???

let me know…

cheers,

tim
suspect nyc

I’m with you on that one.
Trying to do a simple trim on a shot involves too many buttons now( and double jointed hands!!) and you don’t seem to enter a numeric value for a slip anymore.

Paul

Cheers Tim. Handy stuff.

Cheers, thanks for that Marcus.
Still less elegant than it was though.

Paul