Observations on the Trimmer

farss wrote on 5/12/2004, 5:26 AM
Never really had cause to try and use it before but on my current audio job client had given precise cue sheets so the trimmer seemed the ideal way to go. Well, I have to say I find it way too twitchy, in fact I've wasted more time being frustrated by it than I've saved by useing it. Maybe I just don't get it, I get how its supposed to work but it seems two things are missing. Firstly there's no undo, if I make a booboo no way to backtrack. Secondly after marking an In and an Out point they're much too easy too loose, that wouldn't be such an isse except for the first problem.
Surely the In and Out points should be far more 'sticky' than they are.
Perhaps using markers as the in and out points would make more sense, maybe that's what I should be doing?

I know this has been thrashed around before so excuse me if I've missed the bleeding obvious or for opening old wounds.

Comments

SonyTSW wrote on 5/12/2004, 10:13 AM
The Backspace key cycles through your previous 5 in and out points.

The Vegas timeline behaves like this too, cycling through your previous 5 time loop selections.
MarcS wrote on 5/12/2004, 11:38 AM
Wow...I never knew that about the backspace key. Nonetheless, I agree that the In/Out tabs should be stickier - like with Premier. Otherwise they seem to be a frustration and disappear oh so easily. It would be nice too if there were audio scrubbing in the Trimmer.

- MS
BrianStanding wrote on 5/12/2004, 12:02 PM
You could use markers or regions instead of in/out. Much stickier.
farss wrote on 5/12/2004, 3:11 PM
Thanks SonyTSW, I'll try that.
BSTanding, well for sure and I use them a lot on the TL. Don't know if I can add markers in the trimmer though.
BrianStanding wrote on 5/13/2004, 6:39 AM
Yup, you can. And if you select "automatically save media markers" in preferences, you can see them in the timeline, too. Great for finding sync points.
farss wrote on 5/13/2004, 6:48 AM
Haven't had a chance to have a play with it again but that sounds like a much better way to work. Guess my brain is still stuck in the film paradigm where the 'trimmer' is a pair of scissors, once you'd trimmed a clip it was pretty well stuck at that length.