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unsnap
I’m just getting into Avid and I like to edit with the “snapping” off. In other words, when I trim a clip and drag it to the timeline, I don’t want it to snap to the previous clip. I’d like to be able to slide the clips around, cut and paste, etc., without snapping. It’s OK if there are little gaps between clips as I will take care of it later.
Thanks,
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I agree. In my 10 years using Avid, I’ve always worked that way. One of my habits is to hold down ? when dragging to an edit point and the clip or CTI will snap to the head frame (first frame of the clip, or an inpoint or splice in filler). By the way if you want to snap to the tail frame or last frame of a clip, outpoint or to the left of a splice, it’s ?-Alt drag to.
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Go to “Setting”, “Timeline”, “Edit” tab. Uncheck “Default Snap-to-edit”.
Then you can always use the shortcuts that Dave notes when you do want to snap.
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Thanks to both of you. I’m off and running.
T
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Slightly related:
When you’re in segment mode (red arrow or yellow arrow), you can also move your cips using the Trim Back/Forwar 10 frames/1 frame. The default for these on the keyboard is “M” (move left ten frames) “,” (Move left 1 frame) “.” (Move right 1 frame) “/” (Move right 10 frames). This will give you more control as you make fine adjustments.
Michael.
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And the nice thing is that your selection wont stop sliding up and down the timeline if it hits another clip on either side. This is really the way it should be.
[MHancock (promoboy)] “Slightly related:
When you’re in segment mode (red arrow or yellow arrow), you can also move your cips using the Trim Back/Forwar 10 frames/1 frame. The default for these on the keyboard is “M” (move left ten frames) “,” (Move left 1 frame) “.” (Move right 1 frame) “/” (Move right 10 frames). This will give you more control as you make fine adjustments.
Michael.
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