What is the simplest way to trim ?

[Sergei Sokolov]

User’s Manual is useless garbage.

Can you do me a huge favor?
Can you open a sample media file, and write down EXACTLY what keystrokes you use to DELETE :10 to :20 ?

I literally mean everything you type.
I am having trouble using the keyboard to start/stop.
SPACE just starts at the beginning, for example. (Not PAUSE)

I want to
1) PLAY
2) SKIP to :10
3) MARK
4) SKIP to :20
5) MARK
6) DELETE

All with keyboard.

[Sergei Sokolov]

How do I delete a selection?

I pressed I and O to mark the start and end.
I see the little YELLOW flags. on the timeline.
When I press DEL, the entire video is gone.

Is the SELECTION the entire VIDEO TRACK?
Or is it the section marked by I & O ?
The ENTIRE VIDEO is still highlighted by the green rectangle.

[Graham Bernard]

Scrub and Create Regions of what you WANT then Render those as Batch Renders. Choose your Choice Weapon of Render – DONE!

I do it all the time for client to create Rushes for them to view.

* Grazie

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[John Rofrano]

[Sergei Sokolov] “I effectively want to delete everything except 4:00 to 4:20 and 12:00 to 12:20. What commands should I look up to do this?”

You could do one of the following:

• Trim both ends of the video using your mouse and move the resulting event back to the beginning of the timeline — OR —
• Mark the In and Out points and use Shift+Q to select the loop region and then use Ctrl+T to trim. Finally you need to move the event to the beginning of the timeline — OR —
• Split the event at the in and out point and delete the new events on either side and then move the event to the beginning of the timeline

You only need to do one of those.

[Sergei Sokolov] “Also, will I be able to save the short video quickly without “rendering”? Or will it need to reprocess every frame? (slow)”

For MP4 it will need to re-render each and every frame.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Sergei Sokolov] “User’s Manual is useless garbage.”

The on-line help is quite good. I would start with the menu item: Help | Keyboard Shortcuts 😉

[Sergei Sokolov] “I want to
1) PLAY
2) SKIP to :10
3) MARK
4) SKIP to :20
5) MARK
6) DELETE”

Here is the key sequence you need:

1) PLAY
No need to Play if you are going to Skip to the selection you want.

2) SKIP to :10
Ctrl+G :10 to Goto 00:00:00;10 (that’s 10 frames not 10 seconds)

3) MARK
I to mark the In point

4) SKIP to :20
Ctrl+G :20 to Goto 00:00:00;20

5) MARK
O to mark the Out point

6) DELETE
Shift+Q to highlight the loop selection
Ctrl+X to delete the selection
F to Post-Ripple Edit (this will close the gap)

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Sergei Sokolov] “How do I delete a selection?”

With Ctrl+X

[Sergei Sokolov] “I pressed I and O to mark the start and end.
I see the little YELLOW flags. on the timeline.
When I press DEL, the entire video is gone.”

After you mark the In and Out points, you need to use Shift+Q to highlight that selection. Then sue Ctrl+X to delete it or Ctrl+T to keep it and delete what’s outside the selection.

~jr

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[Sergei Sokolov]

I have no idea what you’re saying. Please tell me what keys to press.

[Sergei Sokolov]

The basic version of MS13 does not allow me to press SHIFT+Q
The feature does not exist in the menu, either.

[Sergei Sokolov]

I use Auto-ripple, so I never have to move anything after deleting a section.

[Sergei Sokolov]

Since I do not have the “select Loop” feature, I have to use split.
How can I select the recently split section without using the mouse? (So I can DEL it)