Hi, Ive just donwloaded Magix Movie Edit Pro Plus as a trial version and I'm having trouble with editing. When I move the cursor across the timeline to find an edit point the preview seems to move automatically across several frames making it jerky and difficult to find an accurate edit point. If I use the wheel under the preview screen I can find the edit point easily because it is very smooth however as I edit wedding videos this process is to time consuming.
delicat,
I'd suggest zooming in to the area of interest. Your mouse movement are probably only registered by the operating system at pixel resolution eg if your are showing a full one hour project on the timeline, a single pixel will be something like:
(60 min x 60sec x 25 frames PAL) / (1920 pixels on a full HD monitor) -- that's nearly 50 frames! If you get reasonably close and then zoom in so that the timeline shows only one minute, a single pixel movement is closer to a single frame.
If you navigate with the cursor keys you will move forward / backward a frame at a time at any zoom level.
Your 'Help' file from the main menu will give you the keybaord shortcuts.
Regards,
Carl
ADDED: avchd is very highly compressed and therefore takes considerable computing power to decodes each frame. I'm curios if you have the came problem with other formats of video. Perhaps your computer is a bit low on power?
Besides 'Window' >> 'Horizontal zoom' from the top menus, there are zoom controls buttons at the bottom right of the timeline section. The KB shortcuts for zoom level are [Ctrl + 1] for single frame, [Ctrl + 2] for 5 frames, [Ctrl + 3] for one second etc. The zoom centers on the play cursor.
Thank you Carl, I tried that but it didn't work. I am currenlty using another program that is very smooth and easy to use, but it won't take avchd. I was hoping this would be a better alternative. I'm not sure which shortcut key I was meant to be using, perhaps that is still my problem. K