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Video Splitter / Re: Calculate Output Time?
« on: June 30, 2013, 02:54:55 AM »
This is going to sound complicated and unnecessary. Only the latter is probably true 
When editing out multiple fragments, I find the easiest work flow to be to first move through the video and "Add a Marker" at the start and end of all the fragments I plan to keep, using the mouse to navigate the video and the keyboard "M" shortcut to add the markers.
Once finished I end up with this:
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/5051/eetq.jpg
Then I go back and, using the mouse, select each fragment I plan to keep, and "Keep" them using the keyboard "S" shortcut, which results in this:
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1763/43rz.jpg
Logically, I'm always going to end up with this sort of striping, with alternating "Keep" and "Delete" fragments. I mean, it makes sense that, at least at first, there won't be two consecutive "Keep" or "Delete" fragments. Why create two fragments if you're going to treat them the same?
So, to me, it would just be logical if I could just choose the first "Keep" fragment (in this case it's the second fragment. In other cases it might be the first), like this:
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6645/6uft.jpg
and then have the software automatically "Keep" the alternating fragments after that. Especially when the video is long and there is little or no visible separation between fragments, at which point I have to Zoom in the timeline.
Since I'm apparently the only one who works this way, such a feature seems unlikely.
I might be persuaded to change my process if the default behavior was different when choosing "Keep" when the Timeline Slider is positioned directly on top of a Fragment Marker.
As I'm moving through a video, once I "Add a Marker" that marks the end of a fragment I plan to keep, if I hit "S" or click the Thumbs Up icon, the software marks the next fragment for Keep, not the one I just created. In other words, it always treats the marker I just added as the start of a keep fragment. So to mark a fragment for Keep as soon as I have created it, I first have to move backward into the fragment I just created, then click "Keep", then move forward again. It really ruins the flow.
This is easiest to understand if you just try it. Load a video and click "Thumb Down". Move forward in the Timeline, hit "M", move forward some more, hit "M". Now you've marked a fragment you want to Keep, but the Timeline Slider is still exactly on top of your end Marker. Hit "S" or Thumbs Up. The fragment following the one you just created gets "Kept", not the one you just created.
It's the same problem if you leave the entire video selected for keep, then mark out an area you want to delete. Hitting "D" will delete the wrong fragment.
It's minor, but completely changes the way I use the software.
Anyway, that's my complex explanation for simple problems. Thanks again for listening
-G
When editing out multiple fragments, I find the easiest work flow to be to first move through the video and "Add a Marker" at the start and end of all the fragments I plan to keep, using the mouse to navigate the video and the keyboard "M" shortcut to add the markers.
Once finished I end up with this:
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/5051/eetq.jpg
Then I go back and, using the mouse, select each fragment I plan to keep, and "Keep" them using the keyboard "S" shortcut, which results in this:
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1763/43rz.jpg
Logically, I'm always going to end up with this sort of striping, with alternating "Keep" and "Delete" fragments. I mean, it makes sense that, at least at first, there won't be two consecutive "Keep" or "Delete" fragments. Why create two fragments if you're going to treat them the same?
So, to me, it would just be logical if I could just choose the first "Keep" fragment (in this case it's the second fragment. In other cases it might be the first), like this:
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6645/6uft.jpg
and then have the software automatically "Keep" the alternating fragments after that. Especially when the video is long and there is little or no visible separation between fragments, at which point I have to Zoom in the timeline.
Since I'm apparently the only one who works this way, such a feature seems unlikely.
I might be persuaded to change my process if the default behavior was different when choosing "Keep" when the Timeline Slider is positioned directly on top of a Fragment Marker.
As I'm moving through a video, once I "Add a Marker" that marks the end of a fragment I plan to keep, if I hit "S" or click the Thumbs Up icon, the software marks the next fragment for Keep, not the one I just created. In other words, it always treats the marker I just added as the start of a keep fragment. So to mark a fragment for Keep as soon as I have created it, I first have to move backward into the fragment I just created, then click "Keep", then move forward again. It really ruins the flow.
This is easiest to understand if you just try it. Load a video and click "Thumb Down". Move forward in the Timeline, hit "M", move forward some more, hit "M". Now you've marked a fragment you want to Keep, but the Timeline Slider is still exactly on top of your end Marker. Hit "S" or Thumbs Up. The fragment following the one you just created gets "Kept", not the one you just created.
It's the same problem if you leave the entire video selected for keep, then mark out an area you want to delete. Hitting "D" will delete the wrong fragment.
It's minor, but completely changes the way I use the software.
Anyway, that's my complex explanation for simple problems. Thanks again for listening
-G