Trimming Video to the Thousandth

[Sheep Cloner]

Hey guys, I hope there is a way to do this. I'm setting a video to a pretty fast pace song. I want to switch frames or scene right on certain drum beats. (no transitions) The problem is VS only lets me trim to the nearest hundreth and I need to go to the thousandth. For instance, my clip ends at 5.10 seconds, the drum hits around 5.105 and the next length that I can trim the video is 5.11. Please tell me there's a way to make smaller trims!!! It would seem that there is no way that you can notice a difference of 5 thousandths, but you can and my video looks sloppy as a result.

Thanks!

[Black Lab]

I assume you mean hundredths or thousandths of a second. If that is so, you are incorrect in how you are interpreting it. Video is simply made up of a series of stills (frames), like a flip book you may have made in school. PAL video is made of 25 frames per second, NTSC is 30 frames per second. If a clip is 3:52.5, that means it is 3 minutes, 52 seconds, and 5 frames long. If you are working with PAL video (25 fps) that would be one fifth of a second. If NTSC video (30 fps) that's one sixth of a second. You can't get any more precise than that when it comes to editing video.

Try zooming in on your timeline to see if you can better judge where the clips need to be trimmed.

[Sheep Cloner]

Jeff, Thanks for clearing up what that final decimal was for. I did zoom in an my drum hit lands between 5.10 and 5.11. I'm using NSTC so am I out of luck? It's HD footage, can't I get 60 fps out of that?

[sjj1805]

Just so you can see what you CAN achieve take a look at this post
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[Sheep Cloner]

Thanks guys, It turns out that the biggest part of my problem is with "jumps" in the project preview because of the HD file formats neing so demanding. After rendering it looks awesome. Thanks! ~Ken