Redundant commands

[Craig Howard]

Extract and Lift require the setting of In and Out points in the timeline (or Program Monitor). Best suited to managing sections of a clip where you want the rest of the clip to remain with or without the gap.

Ripple Delete is obvious and is a Menu Option.

Clear and Cut seem to do the same thing ( maybe they are redundant) but they both work on whole clips – not sections of clips. ( Never used them myself). I assume if you use either – it remains in the clipboard as is the standard Windows function for these menu items.

All are options to suits different editors habits & preferences.

There are many ways “to skin the cat” in PremPro.

Craig
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[Paolo]

QUESTION 1.
Thanks for the explanation but:

>Ripple Delete is obvious and is a Menu Option.

I set a keyboard shotcut for this command and it seems makes same job of Extract command but only with clips selected with mouse (arggggggg! I want to select clips with keyboard!!!), right?

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QUESTION 2.
What i don’t really understand is why EXTRACT command don’t work always at same way.
Example:

I have 3 video tracks (no clips in audio tracks), make IN – OUT, select one video track, when in the selection…

…every tracks have video clips:
– it makes a cut in overlay mode

…only one track have a video clip:
– it makes a cut in insert mode

…every tracks have video clips but i lock every others video tracks:
– it makes a cut in insert mode

There’s not a command that make ALWAYS (on the tracks that is not lock) a cut in insert mode?

Ripple delete command seems have same confusing and strange (for me) behavior.

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I think the best editing software must have basic function (all with keyboard shortcut), every with clear and not confusing function, and with this basic commands make ALL the possible operations in a timeline.

I think that a very powerful timeline must have:
– two status: Insert OR Overlay
– a way to select multiple tracks in the same time (or deselect all, or select all with a keystroke)
With this two basic function is necessary to have very few basic command to make ALL the operation on editing with also more speed in the workflow.

Maybe PP is a good editing program when works on 1 or 2 tracks, but, with hardware like Axio, with 4 or 8 video tracks in realtime…

Thanks