Why use the trimmer?

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Grazie wrote on 11/16/2008, 1:16 AM
yes to all of Gilles' points . . .

I treat the Trimmer as My Palette, Media Manager as My Tubes of Paint and the Timeline as My Canvass.

Now, by auditioning my media in Trimmer I an virtually select what parts and bits of the media I want; I can even immortalise just those 5, 10, 20 frames to a new clip called a Sub; in Trimmer I can scoot about the clip to my heart's content and play, scrub and replay before I dedicate it to the "canvass" = Timeline; now with its OWN Preview I am in 7th Heaven!

But what I really REALLY REALLY would like Madison to add is . .. ( drum roll) is a "Save Snap-shot" from WITHIN Trimmer. Now that Trimmer has its very own Preview it is even MORE important and logical to have this option.

Grazie

TeetimeNC wrote on 11/16/2008, 6:33 AM
TB, this is a great tip. I can immediately think of one place I would use this: Often when doing a slideshow to music I will place markers in time with the music, then use UltimateS to place images at the markers. It would be nice to save those those "beat markers" with the music as a subclip.

Jerry

>When you edit video on the timeline and place a marker or region, those don't stay fixed in the project. Sure you can make the selection in the Ripple Edit to have them move with your edits. But when you place the markers/regions in the trimmer and click the Save icon, they are stuck to the media and you can then save them as a subclip and there they'll stay with the media. So if you need to use that subclip in another project, you've now got those markers/regions to help you; but if you simply want to place that media on the timeline, they're there as well. And if you have them on the timeline and don't want to see the names cluttering your timeline...just hit Ctrl + Shift + K and you can toggle the names off. Finally, you can then promote them to the top level of the timeline (ie; make them project-level, not just event-level) simply by running the Promote Media Markers script.
TeetimeNC wrote on 11/16/2008, 6:37 AM
Grazie, bless you my friend... this even has another great benefit - you can very easily preview the veg from within MM by setting auto preview on. I'm going to use this now to clean up and tag my "Resources" folder where I keep interesting Veg's I have created or downloaded.

Jerry

>I also wish MM supported the Veg as a media type. I like to create standard Veg's that get reused across multiple projects (e.g., FBI warning, My company name/logo clip, etc.). It would be nice to quickly retrieve those via a MM tag.
TeetimeNC wrote on 11/16/2008, 6:45 AM
Bob, I didn't give the best example. Many of my standard veg "templates" have placeholders that get replaced with project-specific images or clips, so I can't render them ahead of time. For example, I have a library of complex track animation vegs that I can pull into new projects.

I will do as you suggest and render my static vegs to clips and add those to the media library when I next have the need to use them again.

Jerry

>"I like to create standard Veg's that get reused across multiple projects (e.g., FBI warning, My company name/logo clip, etc.)."