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Charlie, Brett and Jeremy: many thanks for those replies. I’m only reading at the moment but they make sense and I am going to have a play in a bit. If I can avoid going in and out of the B and just cut where I want that would be preferable. I do have cut all shortcuted and use it a lot and exactly as I wish so perhaps the same is possible for B will look into what Jeremby said about the three options.
And as for the skimmer, it’s just a preference thing but I truly hate timeline skimming. I get others may love it but for me it just totally screws with my natural flow and constantly trips me up when it accidentally on. Why I find it annoying that it isn’t a separate thing from thumbnail skimming is that skimming is essential in the thumbs so…. If/when they are separate features, you’ll not hear from me about it again 🙂
As for clip skimming, just read about that yesterday so after Brett’s comment will look into it and have a play, but I don’t think that will circumnavigate the issue of S being for both timeline and thumbs.
Still, feedback list 🙂
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That was one of the things that put me off CS6 when I tried it, constantly having to hit space to start playing because I clicked ahead in the timeline. I dislike things that hinder they way I do things, and 7 did so much to allow me to just focus on my work. I heard Brett saying it used to perpetually play when jumping around in a thumbnail so I am hoping that returns too.
At the moment I am really disliking how X treats the zoom in/out keystroke when the timeline is playing – it zooms in out and forces the play head to the far left of the screen rather than zooming on where they play head is, like it does when the play head is static.
Conversely I am loving how I can cut whilst the play head is moving, delete the clip whilst it is moving, the clip settles into its new position butted up to the previous clip AND it continues playing from where it already was rather than back at the new cut as it did in 7. That is a joy.
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[Julian Bowman] “And as for the skimmer, it’s just a preference thing but I truly hate timeline skimming. I get others may love it but for me it just totally screws with my natural flow and constantly trips me up when it accidentally on. Why I find it annoying that it isn’t a separate thing from thumbnail skimming is that skimming is essential in the thumbs so…. If/when they are separate features, you’ll not hear from me about it again :)”
I think you’ll find a combo of having clip skimming on and timeline skimming off will help you until you get used to it, and you will get used to it and wonder how you ever lived without it. 😉
You will learn how to control it and use it to an advantage. It takes a little bit.
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ha! Ok, we shall see, though don’t go betting the house on it, I am very happy with my antiquated method 🙂
Have now swapped the blade and blade tool around so the cut at playhead is now on B and it is much better so many thanks for that tip.
Is there anyway, now, of making the B as it now is cut on a clip I am hovering over? At the moment it defaults to cutting the primary unless I highlight another clip, when it cuts that – which is perfectly logical and understandable and I can’t complain about it, but I remember reading somewhere you can hover over a clip and hit C to highlight it so was wondering if this hover over state can be applied to B now it is a quick cut rather than the blade tool.
No worries if not as even this current method is far more preferable to me than the blade tool having that skim style about it.
Cheers.
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[Julian Bowman] “Is there anyway, now, of making the B as it now is cut on a clip I am hovering over?”
This exactly what I am trying to explain.
Turn on clip skimming, turn off timeline skimming, and you’ll be able to scrub a clip on any layer and cut it with b.
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Cmd-B is all you need. Don’t even have to touch the mouse. You can be real efficient and the select the following bladed material with C and do whatever you wanted to do with it. All without ever stopping play back. Also consider trim start and trim end. Opt-bracket I believe. That decreased the need for blading for me a decent amount.
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I use the skimming to skim around the timeline and find an edit point and click to put the playhead there. Kinda like marking an in point. Which is important since in the timeline you can’t really mark an in point. You can mark a range, but the minute you click on a clip to drag it and snap it to the in point you marked, you’ll realize the in point is gone because you just selected a new clip/range when you clicked the clip. Very quick when you get the hang of it.
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