Shuffle in timeline

DRORENGEL wrote on 1/30/2025, 6:29 PM

Hey

1st Question: As I edit basketball plays to create nice mixes of highlights, I would like to know if there is a way that lets say I drag 50 files who has alphabetic order (3PT, 2PT,Assist,Steal,Dunk) and I want to make sure i dont put it by subject but just have some random shuffles to all the players's play. is there some ctrl+A that I can do on some and then it will be more of a flexible mix?

OR I just have to do it manually and drag different type of play from the pool to the time line, one by one.

2nd Question: lets say I have space of 5 sec between takes on the timeline between every take for like 30 takes, is there a 1-click merge it all together button instead of me doing ctrl+a to drag it close to eachother? like to have everything stuck together and I marked it in whie spots. how do I close all these 8 gaps with 1 click?

hope u get me.

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Gid wrote on 1/30/2025, 6:50 PM

@DRORENGEL Hi, there's sort orders in the Import tab, change this, maybe swap back to thumbnail view & select the ones you want, drag them to the timeline, or drag from a windows folder where there are multiple sort order options,

Timeline mode is better for editing but if you go to the Storyboard mode you might find it easier to shuffle them around,

how do I close all these 8 gaps with 1 click?

Right click Close Gaps

browj2 wrote on 1/30/2025, 6:55 PM

@DRORENGEL

Hi,

You posted 3 times. Please don't do that. If you have to change something, edit your post, don't create a new one.

1. Not that I know of. If you are in list view, you can change the sort and then select a bunch, like using Size or something. Or just select one at random, then press 1 on your keyboard (not the keypad) to import. So, select, 1, select another, 1, ...

2. Right-click in a blank area of the timeline, Close gaps.

John CB

Can-Dive wrote on 1/30/2025, 10:44 PM

@DRORENGEL

Once you have all your clips on the timeline, in addition to Storyboard mode as @Gid has suggested, I would use Scene Overview Mode to quickly move the clips around to randomize them.