Use of the preview/scan of the Project Media thumbnails?

REALOldNick wrote on 3/22/2019, 5:40 AM

I have not seen this feature before: my last version was 12.

When you add media, in the Project Media tab you can swipe the mouse over the thumbnail and see a review of the video in it. I can see that this allows you to rapidly review the file, but is there more use for it? Can I choose to insert it into a track at a place in that thumb's review etc?

Thanks for any info

Nick

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vkmast wrote on 3/22/2019, 6:39 AM

Do you mean this?

"Project Media Hover Scrubbing

When the Project Media list is in Thumbnail Mode you can hover with your mouse pointer over the thumbnail picture of a video to scrub thru it. This is like a simplified version of the Trimmer window. As with the big trimmer window, you can select just a part of the video. And you can import just this selection into the timeline, offering you a way to roughly edit of your movie directly from the project media window. To make a selection in the thumbnail, you can: Select the item with a left-click. Then, while hovering over the item at the desired location, press I to set the In Point and O to set the Out Point. To edit the In- and Out-Points, drag the selection borders with the mouse.

You can dynamically re-size the thumbnails by using Ctrl+Mouse Wheel.

To load an item from the Project Media window into the project, you can: Drag it into the timeline to the desired position. If there is a selection in the thumbnail, only this part will be used for the new created event. (Because media selection is also performed by dragging it is important that you start dragging vertically to not accidentally destroy your selection.) Select the track and place the cursor at the position where the item should be inserted. Double-click the item or press the Enter key to load."

REALOldNick wrote on 3/22/2019, 7:16 AM

Wow! Yeah thanks. I knew there had to be more and that was the sort of stuff I figured may have been it. I wish there was a right-click drop down or WHY.

I know I should search, but there is just so much and you do not know what to look for. Thank you for your effort.

Kool dude 😊