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Davoo [Avatar]
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I'm editing a review of a TV series, and I'll be editing clips, but the clips are constantly going to the next shot/scene right before the cut happens.

EG: A shot of someone talking, then for ONE microsecond, a shot of a building, before it cuts to the next clip of another character.

I didn't want that building in there. I deliberately cut the clip to where the building wasn't there in the last frame. In the Trim editor itself, it shows that the first and last frames are both of the character talking.

Even the video itself in the preview window makes it seem like everything's fine; but the fully rendered video will show off all the jarring cutting. So then I go back to the file, zoom all the way in, and see that the final few frames contain a different shot at the end.

Why isn't this shown in the Trim preview? Why is it not reliable?

And yes I usually don't cut things that closely, but sometimes it works much better.
Carl312
Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline
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What you see in the preview depends on the resolution of the timeline.

You can expand the timeline to a one frame resolution.

If you use the step forward and step backward control on the viewer or the Keyboard of Comma (,) step back one frame, Period (.) step forward one frame you can pick the frame you want to cut on. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Davoo [Avatar]
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"You can expand the timeline to a one frame resolution"
I'm not sure if I know what you're talking about. How do I do this?

Or is what you're talking about the thing you then explain in the next paragraph? How do I words?



"What you see in the preview depends on the resolution of the timeline."

In fact I'm not sure what you mean here either. Are you talking about the preview resolution?

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Carl312
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Quote: "You can expand the timeline to a one frame resolution"
I'm not sure if I know what you're talking about. How do I do this?

Or is what you're talking about the thing you then explain in the next paragraph? How do I words?



"What you see in the preview depends on the resolution of the timeline."

In fact I'm not sure what you mean here either. Are you talking about the preview resolution?


I am talking about the time display of the video on the timeline.

Put your mouse pointer on the time marks above the tracks, press and hold the left mouse button, drag the mouse Left to Right. You will see the video expand and the time marks get longer. Release the left button when done.

Also on the Left bottom corner is a slider, you drag that slider to the right, you get finer resolution of the time marks.
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Expand timeline Demo.
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Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Davoo [Avatar]
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Oh, that. XD Yeah I know how to do that, that's what I meant by "zoom in" all the way.

The "preview" I'm primarily talking about is the preview display monitor thingymabob on the near-upper right corner of the screen.

The secondary 'preview' I speak of is within the Trim window. How it shows the last frame you've picked out and stuff, you know?
Carl312
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The @$# trim window. I do not and have not used the Trim window since I first used Powerdirector. I use Split and delete. Much more control.

You can change the selection range. See the attachment.
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Trim window 1 frame.PNG
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Change Trim resolution
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Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Davoo [Avatar]
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Yeah the trim window generally keeps being useful for the specific things I keep needing to cut, because of how quickly you can stamp in the time code.

See the thing is, I know I can zoom in all the way, but that's my problem: I don't *want* to have to zoom in all the way and wait for every preview cell to update (because on my computer at least, they take a while to show their true image), I want to see if there's a way to fix the Preview window and make it reflect the frame it's truly on all the time.

If there's not the oh whhhhell thanks for giving the best advice that there is
Carl312
Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline
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Quote: See the thing is, I know I can zoom in all the way, but that's my problem: I don't *want* to have to zoom in all the way and wait for every preview cell to update (because on my computer at least, they take a while to show their true image), I want to see if there's a way to fix the Preview window and make it reflect the frame it's truly on all the time.

If there's not the oh whhhhell thanks for giving the best advice that there is
You may have the continous thumbnails turned on in preferences. Turn them off, the display updates much faster.

Preferences > Editing > uncheck 'Enable continous thumbnails...'. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Davoo [Avatar]
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Sweet, thanks!
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