Apply in&out points to multiple clips
Add a "trim" option to presets, with 2 horizontal radio buttons for "Trim by" and "Exact timecode", followed by in and out fields.
One is relative, the other is absolute.
If the trims are impossible, render will flag a warning (or fail) with the appropriate message (e.g. "Trim values exceed the clip's duration.")
(PS While we're at it, add scaling options to presets, too.)
Drew
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Daniel Mee
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Something like this. My UI for it was more the ability to apply a trim to one output setting and then specify that the same in/outs are to be applied to all other outputs. My use case is having to trim the pre-ramble of a few speeches each week which then get output to various sizes. Prefer to be able to play the video in Media Encoder and find the spot I want to trim in/out and save that output against the current preset. If I add another preset the trim is maintained on the next one. Or I can set all my outputs, adjust the trim on one and then apply that to other outputs in my list.
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Michael
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It would be great to have this feature. I would imagine it to work by stepping into the 'effects' panel within the preset menu in AME. There would be an option here to tell Media Encoder to trim x amount of frames from the start and end of the file.
We deliver TX files which has a 10second clock at the start and 5 second hold on the end. Being able to tell media encoder to take 250 frames off the start at 125 frames off the end for client copies would be helpful.
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Drew
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My main use for this is to trim slates. I sometimes "cook" e.g. 5 deliverables of 5 clips, but only 1 needs to be slated, and the others begin at first frame of picture.
Stepping into 20 clips and tweaking the in/out value one at a time is so cumbersome (and slow), that now I resort to exporting mezzanine files just to avoid doing that.