[mythtv-users] [OT] ProjectX user guide

[Nick Craig-Wood]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:36:48PM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote:
> Once you have these set the next area of concern is the video display area. 
> Underneath are some arrows (I don't have the program in front of me now, so 
> I'm going by memory). The inner two are for moving one GOP frame at a time 
> (the smallest jump you can make in an mpeg without transcoding), then next 
> one is for a slightly larger jump, and then again a slighter larger jump, the 
> furthest out ones are for jumping between cutpoint points.

I'll just add that there are keyboard shortcuts for moving round the
edit window.  The cut window uses ->, SHIFT ->, CTRL -> and ALT -> for
skipping 1 frame, few seconds, ~ 15s, ~1 m - exactly what you need for
cutting commercials! (I had to read the source code to discover this
though ;-)

p, n jump previous and next cutpoint

Home, End go to start end of video.

> Cutpoints. Next to the arrows for jumping around in videos are a + and - for 
> adding and removing cutpoints. Adding two cutpoints will turn the area in 
> between green, any green area area will be processed and output. Multiple 
> Green areas will be output in one final output file. The right side along the 
> video has two tabs, one shows the cutpoint images and IIRC the other tab 
> shows a list of the cutpoints. Here you can also save your cutpoints to a 
> file for later use (or like if you realize you screwed up, instead of redoing 
> all the cutpoints you can load the file and easily make changes).

My edit sessions go like this (all done with the keyboard), to add one
cut point.

ALT ->, ALT ->, ALT ->, ..., CTRL <-, CTRL <-, CTRL <-, ..., SHIFT ->,
SHIFT ->, SHIFT ->, ..., <-, <-, <- , ..., <-, ->, a

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Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick