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bcbarnes wrote on 11/13/2002, 1:52 PM
I used the trimmer extensively in a recent project. I wanted to create a "music video" of short clips (about 7 seconds each) of video I'd taken of my son over the past six months. I had about 2 1/2 hours of raw footage, consisting mostly of about 3 and 4 minute scenes in separate .AVI files (captured with SceneAlyzer Live).

I would preview each separate scene in the explorer, then load scenes I thought would be useful into the trimmer, create a region of the 7 seconds that I wanted to use, and then click the "add to timeline from cursor" button to add that region into the timeline.

I found this much easier than adding each 3 - 4 minute scene to the time line, and then splitting and deleting the parts I didn't want.
Tyler.Durden wrote on 11/13/2002, 1:55 PM
Hi Tim,

The trimmer can allow you to set markers and regions in the media that are seen in the context of the entire clip. You can zoom in to see just the selected area like a regular source-viewer, but zoomed out you can see more.

Those markers and regions can be saved with the media, so you can open a new project and have the "sub-clips" already marked. A lot of NLE's don't support this (sortuva bin import).

The trimmer permits selecting just audio or just video, to take to the TL; and conversely, you can highlight an event in the TL and open the media in the trimmer and see exactly what part of the media is used for that event (it will be highlighted).

It has an annoying (to me) function where when playing and you mark an outpoint, the cursor loops and plays from the inpoint, rather than continuing on... making it hard to mark a later outpoint. My pet-peeve on the trimmer.

So, workfows could include:

play and mark a region, paste to TL... mark a region, paste to TL...

mark and comment regions through the whole clip, drag in order of preference after

mark and comment regions through many clips, use region view in explorer to sort and select.

and on, and on...



HTH, MPH
TimTyler wrote on 11/13/2002, 2:12 PM
Cool.

So the trimmer is used to efficiently import video into the timeline. Right?

I've just been dropping the whole AVI onto the timeline and then chopping it up. The trimmer sounds like a better idea.

Thanks.
Tyler.Durden wrote on 11/13/2002, 2:18 PM
Hi Tim,

It depends on how you like to work...

Some folks use extra tracks in the TL to snip and select, or build sequences...

Some folks use the trimmer a lot...

Some "swing both ways" depending on the job?


Nice to have the choices, I guess.


MPH
Control_Z wrote on 11/13/2002, 3:02 PM
I also use it for short clips in music videos. Just depends if your raw footage has more to cut out or more to keep.

Way too much trouble to use the trimmer for the main edit - even for single camera shoots. Especially since 3/4 of that involves audio mixing.