Manually sliding tracks

Merlin55 wrote on 5/6/2018, 7:02 PM

Hi all. I've been using MEP Premium 2017 for a while and love it. I do have one question though. I've been creating video and audio loops quite successfully by a lot of cutting sections of tracks, duplicating objects, and sliding bits together or even overlapping them.

 

You know the timer at the top left that shows 00:00:00:00, I always zoom in to my tracks a few times and work with the last two digits which is parts of a second and goes from 00 to 30 per second. For the most part I can fine tune my edits well enough with that, but there are times where I need to move the red track marker to split audio or video, or manually shorten or lengthen a track, or manually overlap two tracks in even smaller increments than 00:00:00:00 to 00:00:00:01 to really get timing perfect, like when it's a drum beat that's looped. I don't suppose it's possible to work with smaller intervals and have the red marker or track overlaps stop between those numbers instead of snapping to the next whole number? Is there some setting that enables this or am I already at the limit?

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browj2 wrote on 5/6/2018, 11:02 PM

Hi,

You are working with video, and the shortest interval is 1 frame. The timer shows hh:mm:ss:frames, not fractions of a second. If you are in PAL territory, then you are working at 25 frames per second thus the counter will go to back to 00 after 25, in NTSC land, 29.97fps (or 30) and go from 29 to 00. MEP only allows 1 frame movements for both audio and video. Video Pro X allows audio to be moved less than one frame; the video, of course, remains at 1 frame minimum.

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Merlin55 wrote on 5/6/2018, 11:46 PM

Ah yeah of course, it's frames. DOH! Might have to consider Video Pro X. Thanks browj2.