I'm cutting a music video, and one of the shots in the master track of the timeline is a few frames out of sync. The beginning and end if the shot are dissolves to other shots.
How can I slide the track one frame at a time to the left or right without affecting the bordering tracks?
just put the arrow pointer on the clip you want to move and drag it left or right. You can zoom in the timeline if you want more precision (use the wheel on you mouse if you got one for this)
It works, but since I've got to do it on 30+ little clips, and each one needs to get moved exactly the same number of frames to correct the sync, I was hoping for a easily repeatable solution.
There's no way to slide a clip exactly +X/-X frames?
Place the cursor at the left edge of the video you want to drag (this assumes you want to drag it to the left). Then zoom in (I use the mousewheel). Test to see that you are at the frame level by using the arrow keys to put the cursor one frame left or right (you can see if you're only moving one frame by looking in the preview window at the lower right). Once you're certain you are at the frame level right click the clip and click on "Select Events to End." Then start dragging the first clip the number of frames you wish. P.S. If you move the clips, then release the mouse you have to do the "Select Events to End" command again. Also, if you have other tracks above or below they will not move with this track. Then you might want to do a Ctrl A, then G to group everything. Then ungroup the video before the clip you want to move to the left and go through the above process.
I just realized you may be selecting 30 clips in the middle of your video and not all the clips to the right. If so you will need to select just those clips, using the selection tool, or click on first clip, then shift-click the last clip.
Zoom in far enough so that you can see the individual frame tickmarks on the timeline. Click on the clip you want to move and use the 4 & 6 keys on the numeric keypad to move the clip left or right one frame at a time. If you have Auto Ripple on then all later events in the timeline will move as well. You may need to ungroup the video from the audio first if you only want to move one and not the other. If you need to move just some of the clips on the track and not later ones, turn off Auto Ripple then Ctrl-click additional clips to select all you want to move and they will move together without affecting other clips.
Thanks for the 4 and 6 tip, Kelly. I learned something new. (Maybe I should just finally go and have a look in the help file and learn some of those keys!)
The "4 + 6" key option isn't a perfect solution. It slides the clip, but also moves the edit points (in my case dissolves).
The "ALT-mouse move" method works the way I want it to (it doesn't affect the edits) but it's less exact, in that I cannot nudge one frame at a time without zooming in all the way.
You might find it useful to have the 'Edit Details' window open. Scroll along the window so that you can see the 'take start', 'timecode in' and 'timecode out' columns.
When you use Alt+click'n'drag on an event you can watch these values change to see how many frames you have shifted by. Or you can type in a new value directly into the releveant edit box.