problems editing scenes

Prudie wrote on 12/26/2009, 10:21 PM

Can anyone help with trimming scenes. In Timeline mode I follow the instructions to trim or delete unwanted scenes, end with a gap in the video and, as the "help" section says, just drag the remaining scenes together. The result is dragging the "cut" scenes back into the timeline. In Storyboard mode I often end up with a fade called a "thru black" which basically means I have a blank screen where I thought I had cut out unwanted material - and I cannot undo this "thru black" fade. In the drop down list of fades, "thru black" is ticked, will not untick and I cannot find any reference to it anywhere. Why won't my editing scenes disappear? How can I successfully unite the video together where the scenes have been cut? I have worked on this for several days now and cannot sort it out. Can anyone help please?
Thanks.

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asoeli wrote on 12/27/2009, 4:44 AM

When you drag the scene to the left to fill the gap, your cursor is a double arrow. Then you drag the "cut" scene back. But move the cursor a little more to the right, and the cursor changes to a hand. With this hand you can drag and fill the gap! You should be in "Intelligent mouse mode" (Alt+2) to have all the other scenes to the right to follow the dragging. -- Another way is to mark the scene and click the A/B-mark in the left side of the scene. You get a drop down window, a survey over all accessible transitions. Click on top, "Cut", and the gap is filled.
Under the monitor is a small scissors symbol, click the small triangle and learn to use the letters T, K and U. (I refer to MEP 14)