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Keystroke for Extend Edit with Ripple or Select behaviorPosted by braker
I was surprised when I went about "discovering" Extend Edit that it will only Roll edits.
I would like the same one-stroke functionality which says to FCP: "If possible, please Ripple that selected edit to the playhead position. If you can't do it, bonk me or give me a message or do nothing, and I'll figure out what else to do. Oh, and thanks." I would also like the same but with no ripple or roll behavior at all. "Please move the selected edit point to the playhead position. Thanks." Keystroke availability for both, or there wouldn't be a point. Oh, and thanks.
On the Timeline, if you have the Select tool active (default behavior), then dragging a selected edit point simply changes in or out for that clip - with no effect on anything else. If it is bounded by something else it won't do the operation.
It would be handy to have this simple behavior available from the keyboard as wll as the Ripple version. Understand that when I say edit point I mean a single in or out point of a single clip (or optionally multiple clips). Extend Edit works with two edit points (by my definition) - out popint of outgoing clip and in point of incoming clip - together. Thus it only works in Roll mode.
> As above: move selected in or out point to current playhead position. In my case I would
> want to do this to shorten clips. Razoring and deleting seems a lot more efficient to me. Especially if you have multiple sound and video clips positioned in the area which would interfere with Ripple operations. www.derekmok.com
That's what I mostly do for the ripple situations, and it requires either mousing or more keystrokes than I'd prefer.
Context: In my case, this is for documentary production where the bulk of the real work consists of fine cutting to dialog. At that stage I am cutting and rippling across tracks. But I also do the same thing in occasional dramatic production.
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