Move orange trimmer to EXACT position of scrubber?

[wsalopek]

I am trying to select a portion of a project for rendering by using the orange trimmer tools in preview.

But when I move the orange trimmer, it just FLIES thru the video (no matter my magnification)...very very hard to make it stop on an exact position on the timeline.

The scrubber is easy to move to an exact position, but not the trimmers?

Is there a trick?

Thanks...

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Bill

[BrianCee]

once again - from a previous topic :-


Directly under the trim line under the preview window are a series of icons.

The very left hand one 'plays ' the whole project - the next one takes you back to the very beginning

The next one moves the TIMELINE cursor back ONE frame - the next one moves the TIMELINE cursor forward ONE frame - the next one takes you to the very end of your project .

So get your cursor to the approx position and then click on the forward one/back one to get TIMELINE cursor to the precise edit spot - careful not to click beginning or end instead.

Note that the orange 'finger' has not moved - BUT - to the right of the white line and orange fingers are two square brackets - technically known as mark in and mark out selectors, but for your purposes clicking on the left square bracket will align the left 'finger' with the timeline cursor and similarly the right hand square bracket will align the right 'finger' with the timeline cursor.

OR

Once again get your cursor to approximately the correct position

Under the right bottom corner of the preview screen is a small digital clock - the numbers are Hours:Minutes:Seconds:Frames

If you only want to move a few frames click on the frames number and it will start flashing - at the right hand end of the clock are up and down arrows - the up arrow advances one frame per click the down arrow goes back one frame - once in the correct position click any where onscreen to stop the numbers flashing and 'set' them

if you want more movement you can use the seconds number and clicking the arrows will then move i second.

As before only the timeline cursor will move and you need to use the square brackets to align the fingers.

[lata]

Hi

Some more info on the Mark-In Mark-Out options.

http://lata.me.uk/corel/bluebar/blue_bar.htm

may help a little.

You can set the curser position using the digital clock, nudging frame by frame if you wish, then hit the square brackets (F3 and F4)