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Trim Beginning/End of Clip like in FCPX
Hi,
after using FCP X for a while, I’ve learned to appreciate some of it’s workflow hacks and smooth approaches to the plain editing, that Premiere Pro seems to be lacking.
But maybe I’m wrong and you guys can teach me how to achieve this in PP since my clients force me to use it when I’m in their office.
Is there a hotkey combo to trim the beginning or the end of a clip? Like, when I’m with my playhead near the end of a clip, I wanna press these two buttons (like in fcp x) in order to trim away everything that comes after OR before the playhead?
It’s such a handy tool in FCP. In Premiere I always end up doing it either with the mouse (which totally sucks), or trimming it manually with the . or , keys…
Thanks in advance if there’s a way to do this!!
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Try pressing the “Q” and “W” keys. 🙂
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First I wanted to yell:
“SWEEET you’re my hero today!!! Thanks!!”
but then I saw it doesnt do what I want, cause it doesnt just affect the selected clip, but also messes up the entire timeline
:/
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If I understand correctly, what you want is typically called “top” and “tail”. This trims everything at the head or end of the timeline with a single keystroke. Media Composer has this also, but as a command that’s basically a macro. I’ll have to look to see if Pr has something like this when I get back to a system. Obviously you could do this with a series of keystrokes, but I’m not sure if there’s an actual top or tail command.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Just to clarify, do you want to trim the beginning or end of the whole timeline, or of specific clips within the timeline? If the latter, do you want it to ripple or leave a gap?
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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I just wanna ripple a particular clip, without auto cap closing.
Maybe this isnt even possible in PP, because of the lack of magnetic timeline.. -
[Christoph Heimer] “I just wanna ripple a particular clip, without auto cap closing. “
I’m confused. Rippling by definition means that the deleted gap is closed. So what do you mean? In X if you delete the head of the clip it ripples the rest of the timeline forward so no gap is left. If you do the same but with the position tool activated, it leaves a slug or gap.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Christoph Heimer] ” it doesnt just affect the selected clip, but also messes up the entire timeline”
In that case, lock the tracks you don’t want affected.
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haha, well if I first have to lock other tracks and stuff, it’ll be faster to just trim the track by hand with my mouse 🙁
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I am very much afraid so 🙂
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Hi…
wouldn’t we be doing an extend edit here? Extend works head or tail, on multiple tracks, and ripple depends on the trim mode you’re in with you extend (which you can cycle thru with the keyboard)
Extend can lengthen or shorten.
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