On Tuesday 22 November 2005 09:35, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > 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
awesome! I was wondering if there were shortcut keys for that! I assume "a" adds a cutpoint? Is there a way to have myth rescan a file after commercial cutting? If I could rename the original, cut commercials, save the output file as the original name and have Myth rescan the new mpeg I'd be a happy camper. Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
