I'm about 1/3 into my way of hours of video footage from screen-captures where i was live-dictating stuff for some tutorials, and I want to reduce the time as much as possible so Ive been removing or compressing pretty much everything where I hesitate speaking for a second or more or time-compress clips where I am doing a series of working-out what spreadsheet equations to type --- if it takes me 70 seconds with some pauses to check the row and column numbers and continue typing, with 6s and 4s hesitations here and there, then control-sliding to timecompress the clip causes it to only drop down to about 16 seconds which is still huge, considering it has gaps and pops - i'd rather see a continuous sped up flow of character typing. I'm not a famous youtuber who can have video walkthrus where they divert for a minute to talk to their cat, or go when the doorebell rings and pay for their pizza delivery in the middle of the video without editing it out --- and I dont want to do voice-overs recordings to replace what i have - i just want to remove my manneristic pauses and moments where my brain realizes that i may have just taken the wrong step and need to go back one and redo it before concluding im okay and can resume at full speed... I want the distractions gone, I want a smooth visual that looks like all im doing is speeding up the typing of stuff that works the first time error free, instead of a lot of typing...delete...retype...delete...retype typo-fixing...
So I chop out the hesitation where no activity occurs by selecting and deleting which splits both edges and removes the grouped track clips -- or i select a segment that has me typing out a blast at the keyboard, split, and resize it..
The problem then is that if i just edit each segment to delete or resize, I wind up with a timeline that looks like: - --- - - -- - - --- - - --- - - --- - --- -- --- --- -
and spend minutes dragging each piece to form the coherent segment.
The questions:
1) Is there some setting somewhere that will let me turn the selection delete into a vaccum, so that if i select DEF from ABCDEFGHI and delete, it will auto-slide everything to the right to fill the void?
2) Is there some setting or tool that will let me take the morse-code looking timeline for 20 clips and vacuum out all the void space in my selections, turning that into one giant -------------------------------- length of consecutive clips?
3) Is there a way to bind some other function to the selections like the delete, such that i could activate a "full max time compress" on selections. I know that I can set the playback rate property for a clip to speed it up, but that doesn't resize the clip in the timeline.
Really, just an auto-slide or total-selection vaccum would make this process go faster and smoother - I'm quite adept at chopping out a lot of footage for "Sentences ...where...I ..seem...too..be...thinking...a...bit...while...feeling..a...need...to...try...to...say...something...important...about...what...i..see" and its fairly automatic muscle-memory for me, but man, someone point me to auto-shift or auto-vaccum, and you'll increase my productivity dramatically.
So I chop out the hesitation where no activity occurs by selecting and deleting which splits both edges and removes the grouped track clips -- or i select a segment that has me typing out a blast at the keyboard, split, and resize it..
The problem then is that if i just edit each segment to delete or resize, I wind up with a timeline that looks like: - --- - - -- - - --- - - --- - - --- - --- -- --- --- -
and spend minutes dragging each piece to form the coherent segment.
The questions:
1) Is there some setting somewhere that will let me turn the selection delete into a vaccum, so that if i select DEF from ABCDEFGHI and delete, it will auto-slide everything to the right to fill the void?
2) Is there some setting or tool that will let me take the morse-code looking timeline for 20 clips and vacuum out all the void space in my selections, turning that into one giant -------------------------------- length of consecutive clips?
3) Is there a way to bind some other function to the selections like the delete, such that i could activate a "full max time compress" on selections. I know that I can set the playback rate property for a clip to speed it up, but that doesn't resize the clip in the timeline.
Really, just an auto-slide or total-selection vaccum would make this process go faster and smoother - I'm quite adept at chopping out a lot of footage for "Sentences ...where...I ..seem...too..be...thinking...a...bit...while...feeling..a...need...to...try...to...say...something...important...about...what...i..see" and its fairly automatic muscle-memory for me, but man, someone point me to auto-shift or auto-vaccum, and you'll increase my productivity dramatically.