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  • Removing transitions changes sequence length…

    Posted by Brendan Pyatt on May 6, 2009 at 10:54 am

    Hi,

    I have a sequence with some transitions and I want to work on some of the clips in the sequence – do some re-timing work and re-scaling.

    When I remove the transition the sequence and the clip become shorter so when i copy the clip to work on it in another sequence I end up with a shorter clip.

    Is there a simple of way of copying the entire clip with the parts that are being used by the transition?

    Victor Perez replied 17 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • Michael Gissing

    May 6, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    How are you removing the transitions?

  • Brendan Pyatt

    May 6, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    Clicking on them and hitting backspace key (arrow to the right and vertical line)

  • Victor Perez

    May 6, 2009 at 3:51 pm

    I normally use the Backspace Key to delete clips and close the space left by deleting the clip. If you have 2 clips on V1 and hit backspace on the first clip you should see the second one move to cover its place. Backspace works like a delete and cover. You might be deleting a transition and the media it connects to somewhere in your sequence without realizing it. This might explain the shorter sequence. I would select transitions and hit the delete key instead of the Backspace key. This way if you are deleting the media joining a transition you will notice a hole where the clip should be. Make sure you have a copy of your sequence prior to doing this so you can easily replace any media that might have gotten deleted.

    hope that helps,

    Victor

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