Tell me htere is a a KEY I cna hold to turn off Snap to grid.

In Photoshop you can hold down the CONTROL KEY to temporarily turn OFF snap to grid. It's so obnoxious to have to press N to turn off snap, then press N again to turn it on. Then work a while and not remember if N is on or off.

Surely someone knows the secret SECRET way to hold down a key to turn off snap just while you align a clip, then when you release the key the snap is back on.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?



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Nope. No temp key. But I rarely use snapping, only turning it ON when I need the alignment. Maybe you should try that. You're bound to either edit with it on or off more often. Perhaps you are just defaulting to the wrong state.

Andy

I'm not sure whether it's a super secret or not but you can temporarily turn on/off snapping simply by holding the N key down whilst you move the clip(s). When you release the N key, snapping will return to the state it was before you pressed the key.

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I don't get that behaviour Martin. It simply flashes on and off while I'm holding the key, and releasing the key seems to be a lottery on which it will end up.



All the best,

Tom

This seems to have got broken in v5 but in v4.5 this is how it worked:

With snapping disabled, select a clip on the timeline
Start dragging it
Now hold down the N key and snapping will be enabled
Move the clip as desired
Release the N key
Release the mouse button

In v5 the snapping flickers on and off when you release the mouse button and it is indeed a lottery ;-)

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Works in 4.5 here for me. And it's a bit useful, too!

Holding down the N key toggles between snap and snap off. You can see the icon flahsing in the upper right hand corner of the timeline. I've tested this enough now to know that there is NO TEMP key to turn On or Off snap for single move. If it works it's only because you happen to let go of the N key during the toggle position that would make it appear as a TEMP key.

I'd love to see a TEMP key stroke for this in the future.

Geno



Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
~ Hunter S. Thompson

It definitely works in version 4.5. The icon does not flash, and the clip that started out with snapping on can be slipped around with no snapping. When the clip is let go, snapping reverts to being on.

>>This seems to have got broken in v5<<

Jude,

Most people hold down the N key WITHOUT having a clip grabbed to test this. Whithout a clip currently GRABBED in the timeline, holding the N key just toggles between snap on and off and loops.

But YOU'RE RIGHT. If you GRAB the clip, THEN HOLD DOWN THE N KEY you immediately FLIP the position of the N Key's current state (from snap to to snap off or visa versa) then you can move the clip while holding down the N and release the N which will flip the State back to position one.

Thank you.



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~ Hunter S. Thompson

Err that's what I said four posts back :-)

Martin Baker
www.digital-heaven.co.uk

Yeah - I didn't know this one - it was Martin's post that explained

>>Start dragging it
Now hold down the N key <<

I always have toggled the N key rather than hold it down. My finger hovers over the N key much of the time as I edit and I guess I am just used to doing it the way it's always functioned.



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