I'm transitioning from Vegas Pro and looking for a functional equivalent. In Vegas, the highlighted clip duration is displayed at the lower-right of the screen. Is there an equivalent in Movie Edit Pro?
Hi Ian,
Vegas Pro and Video Pro X are closer than Vegas Pro and Movie Edit Pro Plus/Premium in features.
Strangely, the information that you want is not shown (it would be nice to have) without either checking the properties or opening the Object Trimmer (Shift+N).
Properties gives you the Play time of the entire clip if not trimmed, or the trimmed clip near the top, and File play time (original duration) near the bottom.
The Object Trimmer gives you the In point of a trimmed clip (beginning trimmed) at the bottom left, and the Out point of a trimmed clip (tail trimmed). With nothing trimmed, you get 0 at the bottom left, and the full duration at the bottom right. You can quickly go clip to clip using the left and right arrows at the bottom of the interface.
In the image below, the first clip is full duration, so it starts at 0 and ends at 23:00. The second clip has both head and tail trimmed and shows the start of the clip on the timeline as 01:02 from the start of the clip, and the trimmed end at 9:04. The difference is the duration of play which, unfortunately, is not shown. It would be nice to have.
John CB
@Ian-Schwartz You can left & right click on the blue bar at the top at either end of the clip, it'll show the length on that blue bar & top right of the preview screen or right click on the clip Object properties, but i don't think you can auto select that clip by double clicking on it like in Vegas, I might be wrong tho,