Kdenlive/Development/Ideas/3-Point Editing

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Advanced Editing in the timeline

Topic	Benefit	Description
Advanced editing in timeline	🎥 – Users of other professional video editing applications are familiar with the editing workflow from other programs.	Editing includes both trimming and 3-point editing. Improve trimming of clips directly in the timeline whereby adjacent clips are trimmed as well, and inserting/(re-)moving clips on the timeline. See also #225

Questions

• Are operations clear to understand? (which target track, IN/OUT points, short tutorial with pictures)
• Are operations easy to find?

Tools

Current status: Clip operations can be chosen with a shortcut, which then affects the selected audio/video track. Or by using the mouse after choosing the timeline mode (e.g. insert mode) from a dropdown – in that case, audio is not moved to the selected audio track but to the audio track with the same number as the video track (bug?).

Name	Status	Description
Insert	✔️	Insert clip and move following clip material to the right
Extract	✔️	Remove clip and move following clip material to the left
Overwrite	✔️	Replace section in timeline by clip
Lift	✔️	Remove clip from timeline, leave following clip material where it was

Questions:

• What should happen in insert mode when moving a clip which is already on the timeline? Currently it behaves as if a new clip was inserted.

Status	Description
✔️	Set IN and OUT point in clip and insert it in timeline
?	Set IN and OUT point in timeline and add clip there (starting at clip's IN point)

Other ideas

• Snap cursor to clip boundaries in the timeline, e.g. when holding Shift → workflow: Snap to end of a clip, then insert clip there with V in insert mode
• Also support 4 point editing?