Inserting music into timeline position

[MrJohnny]

Hi David

Now understand.

Your organization of material to use in projects is logical and definitely useable.

Trevor's point about "Right click..." and giving the option to "insert to cursor position" is sound; would be an improvement. The only difficulty may be the length of the clip versus the length of the gap to fit it in between existing clips?

John

[Ken Berry]

And just to be clear again, when I said "timeline" I didn't just mean the top track but the relevant area of "timeline view" i.e. one of the audio tracks.

Second, like you David I do in fact have a library of sorts, but they are not a VS library but a folder either on the main HDD or more usually for me on an external HDD. So I have already organised all my video, audio and title files in a folder, and insert from there. The idea of creating a new library folder for the same bunch of files within VS is what I always balk at...

[lata]

Hi David

I do understand all that you are saying and that Insert Media will drop the clip at the beginning or adjacent to the last clip.

From Windows Explorer we can also Drag and Drop to the timeline. Have you tried that? it will allow you to use your HD Folder and allow you to position the clip on the timelines.
It does not matter if the clips are Video, Images or Audio, all seem to react the same to Drag and Drop ( we are of course referring to the lower tracks, not the top track)

For me the library is not a problem, but like you I arrange my files in a particular folder on the hard drive, probably one folder for each project.
But then can import the clips to the library for easy access, the newer versions show a tick on the clip within the library when the clip is used, that in its self is a good improvement.

The Snap To effect is not an option that can be selected, it is inherent in the way we drag clips along the timeline, works when dragging clips to the left, However there is a SnapTo option when creating our Titles, view the Title Editor with a text box selected on preview screen, Show Grid Lines – Grid Line Options. The text “snap to” is easier to identify than the timeline effect.

[Davidk]

Like Ken or maybe more so, my media folders are separate drives (by type, eg one for video, one for pictures, one for voiceover, music et seq . . .) with folders within the drive for the occasion, place, or event (eg, holidays 2016 Japan, or radio club day/date) or by type (voiceover recorded for X5 thru X10, or for music a theme variety eg, action music or classical string collections).

And that technique using windows explorer Trevor outlined does work - albeit with the apps open in restore mode to facilitate the drag and drop - for music and voiceovers, and it is going to be real handy since inevitably I use explorer to locate the particular files I want before initiating a VS import (eg, doing a mini-movie on castles, I have castle materials in Europe, Japan, South America, SE asia and all in different event or place folders). Which one or how many do I want for the project in hand? Having located the materials I want, I then use the import functions in VS. Ditto for the theme collections of music I want. And since that has been the nagging irritating issue that spawned this thread, now there's not only solution but it turns out it will be shortcut too.

Thanks Trevor.