Question about trimmer

[Doc K]

I am unclear on how to use the trimmer.

Say you have a clip with lots of different things that you want to have in your timeline, but separately.

Are you supposed to set your in and out points on the first one, copy it to the timelime, then set your in and out points to the next one, copy to the timeline, and so on.

Or would it be better to make subclips of each and then copy those to the timeline?

[Steve Grisetti]

It depends on which workflow works better for you.

You can pre-trim the video in the Trimmer and then save it to your Project Media as short clips. Or you can just pre-trim your video, drag it to your timeline, then pre-trim another segment and so on.

There is no right or wrong way. It just depends on what's more efficient for your particular case.

[Doc K]

So the subclips can be created and stored in the Project Media bins, but they will always be based on the parent clip, so that cannot ever be removed from the Project Media. Right?

I think this whole Trimmer concept is simpler than I am wanting it to be.

[Steve Grisetti]

Once you've create a sub-clip or sub-clips, you can remove the main clip from the Project Media panel if you'd like -- though, of course, it must remain on your hard drive in order for your sub-clips to function.

[Doc K]

You know, in the Project Media pane, it would really be helpful if the you were able to differentiate between regular video clips and subclips. They all just say "Video Clip". The video clips also have the file extention on them.

Now I did find a column, in the detail view, that is called Alpha, which seems to label subclips as 'premultiplied?', but I don't know if that means "Theis clip is a subclip"

Doc

[Bobby]

Just FYI, I never use in/out at all. Just pull the clip to the timeline and cut as necessary.