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Advice needed for more efficient timeline navigation
hey guys
long time lover of this forum and experienced ppro user but rarely post, i normally find my answers by searching the forum or web but in this case i cant seem to find what im looking for…
im dealing with large amount of footage on a regular basis (10hrs+) so i want to use as many shortcut keys possible to navigate and extract the highlights i want to use, without relying on the mouse to get things done. so the best way to explain what im trying to achieve is explain my process of timeline navigating, if there’s a better way to do this, please reply…
– to move around im using j / k / l (or my jog wheel on my Bella Corp Pro Series 3.0) or scrubbing through with the mouse
– then cut the selection, select the clip then drag it to the next video track, so i have a stack of highlights on a separate track, which can be easily grabbed and copied to a new sequence for my assembly cut
– the issue with a large timeline spanning many hours of footage, i want to easily navigate to the next section of the timeline… the way im doing this currently is by using the mouse wheel to move along in the timeline, but after doing this 1000s of times, it gets quite exhausting and sometimes painful… i can simply click a section to the right of the scroll bar to see what clips are forthcoming, but this is something i want to achieve with a shortcut…i hope this makes sense cause going through so much footage in this fashion is time consuming with the mouse wheel and taxing on my fingers…
looking forward to your replies 🙂
Brendan Krotz
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well it seems a friend has worked out what it was, which is using the page down key to see the next part of the timeline… dont know why i didnt try that… :/
however if anyone can see other ways of doing this lengthy process of picking highlights through footage, please let me know
cheers
Brendan Krotz
Director | Editor | DOP -
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I have mapped a shortcut to select the next or previous clip at a cut point (in my case, command+left arrow or right arrow, but you can make it anything by creating a custom keyboard shortcut).
Then I use the old FCP7 standby option+up arrow to move that selected clip up a track. Helps a lot, especially when dealing with lots of footage… the ability to select a clip and nudge it up a track is a new fix in one of the recent updates to PPro, I believe.
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