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Precision Editor not available for secondary storyline
As the title says, is this feature by design or by some sort of logical limitation?
I can see precision editor as useful on the secondary storyline as it conforms to the same “rules” as the primary storyline.
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Ray -
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No precision editor for Secondary Storylines. I sent in Feedback form for it as a feature request. Please do so. I don’t doubt Apple looks at the requests as well as volume of requests for a specific feature to influence priority. I’d really like to see this one. Send in your Feedback form.
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Done!
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Ray -
Until precision edits are allowed in the secondary storyline, I wonder if a cheat makes any sense. Temporarily move the series of clips you want to edit in detail to the primary storyline, perform the detailed edits, then move them back to the secondary storyline?
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Make Secondary Storyline into a Compound Clip. Open Compound clip into it’s own timeline by clicking on it’s upper left icon. You can now use Precision Editor. I’m checking on whether you can break apart the compound and maintain the edit but I suspect it will.
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Whilst the precision editor is not available in secondaries, you can still select a cut () and roll it numerically (from num pad), or ripple [ or ] the same way.
I used to edit linear so maybe it makes it easier for me to do this as I grew a habit. I understand that most of those who learnt editing on a non linear system are used to “see” as they trim. Same as they are usually happy to use waveforms, which, with a few exceptions, I always have turned off. Old habits die hard…
Having said this, I also sent, amongst many requests and bug reports, one that asks for the PE to be available everywhere (oh, and for it to behave consistently when used from the keyboard….it does not at the moment).
Patrice Freymond
Senior editor
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Thanks. I suspect you are right about the edits being retained. From the Help:
“Adjust the edit point between clips with the Precision Editor
Choose either the Select tool or the Trim tool from the Tools pop-up menu in the toolbar, and double-click the edit point you want to trim in the Timeline.”I thought someone was being lazy with all the references to “Timeline” instead of Primary or Secondary Storyline, but maybe that’s the subtle distinction that let’s us know a function can apply to anything that is Open in the Timeline, where of course a compound clip from a secondary storyline or the Event library appears as if it were the Primary Storyline in a sense.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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And with “Show Detailed Trimming Feedback” enabled, you’ll have a clear view at the edit point in the Viewer. You just will not have the effortless view of left clip frames after and right clip frames before the edit point. Still workable of course.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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