Advanced Editing in the timeline
| Topic |
Benefit |
Description
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| Advanced editing in timeline
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🎥 – Users of other professional video editing applications are familiar with the editing workflow from other programs.
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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
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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
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| Insert
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✔️
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Insert clip and move following clip material to the right
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| Extract
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✔️
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Remove clip and move following clip material to the left
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| Overwrite
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✔️
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Replace section in timeline by clip
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| Lift
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✔️
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Remove clip from timeline, leave following clip material where it was
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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
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| ✔️ |
Set IN and OUT point in clip and insert it in timeline
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| ? |
Set IN and OUT point in timeline and add clip there (starting at clip's IN point)
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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?
