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timeline indicator
hi everybody,
this is probably the dumbest questions ever, but i have to ask it after all these years. been working on avid for a couple years now, ever since my work instituted it, previously working on final cut & premiere. anyhow in all my classes, and apprenticeships using avid, i was too embarassed and shy to ask “why is the timeline indicator the width of one frame?”
it used to drive me nuts that i had to back up a frame where ever the indicator fell, when i was so used to final cut and premiere! anyhow thank you for listening to my pure stupidity, and please humor me when answering my question.
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4 Replies
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Actually, the more you zoom in the timeline you’ll notice that the indicator is really TWO indicators… one solid (start of a frame) & a dotted one (end of a frame… beginning of the next frame) 🙂
Bill
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good stuff, i was just wondering why the second(dotted) indicator becomes the
mark out point, so when i lift, i’m lifting one frame that i didn’t want (i know i’m pretty anal about editting, lol) as compared with the other nle’s that don’t do that -
To me, it’s much more “logical” to have it edit out exactly one frame, because if you look at a film negative you always cut “between the frames”, if you want to extract one frame, then it makes sense to cut on either side of the frame. Premiere and FCP allow you to edit magically I guess in a world where physics doesn’t exist… though it does make you wonder how something can be frame accurate if they allow this type of “illogical” cutting of frames?
Also, instead of having “back up” one frame from the cut point, hold CTRL+ALT while clicking near the transition and it’ll snap to the head of the last frame (thereby placing your OUT precisely at the end of the clip)
Kenton VanNatten
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thanks kenton!
finally someone who has a reasonable answer!
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