scrubbing video

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luddy
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scrubbing video

Post by luddy » Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:12 pm

Just thought I'd post a trick I ran across for placing locators very precisely for the purpose of lining up sounds with video. To do this with the scrub area in the arrangement is a little awkward because the video keeps moving, and when you release the scrub the video keeps playing so it's hard to get frame resolution.

If you create a MIDI track and insert a note, then hold that note with the mouse and slide it from left to right, the video scrubs perfectly, with the note-on as the scrub point. when you release the mouse, the insertion point in the arrangement will be left at the note-on position. you can then right-click in the scrub area just above the insertion point and create a locator; it will snap to the locator position. (grid should be off in the arrangement and MIDI track when you do this, otherwise the locator will be quantized to the grid instead.)

-Luddy

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Re: scrubbing video

Post by Snoekie66 » Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:23 am

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing.

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