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David Cherniack – Timeline length question
Hi David: the other day you said this to me …
“Your slider resolution in the program panel may be too low.”
How do I adjust this parameter? I notice that even though my sequence may be 30 seconds, the timeline has a duration of like 2 hours. How can I make the timeline duration shorter? maybe
Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
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Hi Tom….
Backslash Key “” should zoom to fit.
Alex
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Thanks Alex.I am aware of that key.
My problem is I drop an 8 sec. Red clip on the Make Sequence button and it generates a sequences that is 10 HOURS long . Orphans dont exist. Just that 1 clip.It makes smooth scrolling in the Record window problematic.
BTW Im on 5.5
Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com -
The sequence in Premiere Pro isn’t like a comp in AE…it simply gets as long as needed.
Typically if you drop one clip on the make sequence, you don’t end up with a ten hour view…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Tom, beneath the picture in the program panel is a thin horizontal line. If you grab one end of it with your mouse you can drag it toward the center and increase the resolution of the scroll bar.
OTOH I ALWAYS scan in the timeline panel It normally has more resolution, except when the program panel is full screen.
David
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Tim – “Typically if you drop one clip on the make sequence, you don’t end up with a ten hour view…”
Thats what I thought. It only happens with the Red clips. Oh well, I will write up a bug report since no one seems to have any suggestions how to rectify this.
Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com -
Hi Tom….
So if I understand you, your preference is scrub in the record view rather than the timeline.
In the source and record viewer (as well as the seqeunce), there is a thin bar that, by deafault extends from one end of the time ruler to the other.
This is the viewing area bar. This allows you to control the granularity with which you can scrub. YOu can manually adjust the granularity by clicking and dragging in from either edge. and it can be “re-centered” by click on the bar itself and dragging it left and right.
I think the problem you are having is that by default this doesn’t “snap” to the run length on the timeline. So when you have very little material on timeline and you go to scrub, it’s zoomed so far out that you experience the skipping.
The source viewer experiences this to a lesser extent because in essence it’s run time is completely dynamic based on the of the media loaded. It still possible with very LONG sources, which is why the viewing area bar exists in the first place, to allow the option of fine scrubbing on areas of extremely long source material.
I don’t think that there is a keyboard shortcut to adjust the viewing area bar, so I think you have to do it by mouse. (certainly worthy of a feature request)
or alternatively,
Scrub source in the source viewer….
and adjust your habit to Zoom and center your sequence and scrub the record side by scrubbing in the sequence window as opposed to trying to do it in the record window.
Here is a picture of the Viewing bar, labelled C:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS5DA371B7-34F6-4104-AE11-F9CE4C427A80.htmlDoes that help?
Alex
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Thank you very much Alex! That is what I needed to know.
Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com -
glad to help.
Alex
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[Tom Daigon] “Thank you very much Alex! That is what I needed to know.”
Aaaargh! Thank goodness that Alex actually read your post more carefully than I did…I was thinking sequence panel all the way when you clearly asked about the program panel…my apologies.
Good show Alex.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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No problem Tim. You have been very helpful with a lot of other issues I have bumped into. I do appreciate it.
Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
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