Movie Studio 2022 - 'Select all after cursor' function

Jon-Smith-Moorhouse wrote on 4/16/2022, 4:32 PM

Hi - me again! I was hoping a lot of my knowledge from an earlier version would read forward... turns out a lot has changed! Apologies if this has been asked 100 times but I could see anything straight away. I am looking for a simple function I used a lot before 'select all after cursor'. Does such a function exist on MS2022?

If not, the reason I ask is I often load a heap of videos in, then move them around and slot things in here and there as I build up a story rather than working from left to right. If its a long / complex video, selecting all the rows and everything to the end of the timeline is a messy process using a selection box if I just need a small shift to stretch a transition or similar so hoping for a shortcut! I've watched some tutorials on YT but they get stuck in the basics of video editing, not what the actual tool can do - any recommendations on decent tutorials would be ace too 👍

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Former user wrote on 4/16/2022, 4:45 PM

@Jon-Smith-Moorhouse Hi, you're looking for these controls at the bottom of the preview window,

first one selects only the event you select, second one everything after the event you select but only on that track, the third everything after the event you select but on all tracks,

Have look at this link for videos https://www.magix.info/us/forum/movie-studio-18-support-videos-and-faqs--1278694/

Jon-Smith-Moorhouse wrote on 4/16/2022, 5:15 PM

@Jon-Smith-Moorhouse Hi, you're looking for these controls at the bottom of the preview window,

first one selects only the event you select, second one everything after the event you select but only on that track, the third everything after the event you select but on all tracks,

Have look at this link for videos https://www.magix.info/us/forum/movie-studio-18-support-videos-and-faqs--1278694/

Oooh - thats a neat function that you can maintain that selecting function on - like that! Thanks for the help and the link! 👍

Former user wrote on 4/16/2022, 6:17 PM

@Jon-Smith-Moorhouse 👍 you'll have to get used to knowing which your on & switching them accordingly, for instance, lets say the cursor is in the middle of an event, hitting Z on the keyboard trims the start of an event from the cursor point, hitting U trims the end from the cursor point, if the option in my picture above is on the the first mouse arrow, hitting Z or U deletes/trims the first or end parts of the event but nothing in the timeline moves, but if the option is on one of the other two mouse arrows then hitting Z or U moves the entire contents of the track or the entire timeline from the timeline cursor point & closes the gap created by trimming/deleting the end/start.

Jon-Smith-Moorhouse wrote on 4/17/2022, 3:03 AM

@Jon-Smith-Moorhouse 👍 you'll have to get used to knowing which your on & switching them accordingly, for instance, lets say the cursor is in the middle of an event, hitting Z on the keyboard trims the start of an event from the cursor point, hitting U trims the end from the cursor point, if the option in my picture above is on the the first mouse arrow, hitting Z or U deletes/trims the first or end parts of the event but nothing in the timeline moves, but if the option is on one of the other two mouse arrows then hitting Z or U moves the entire contents of the track or the entire timeline from the timeline cursor point & closes the gap created by trimming/deleting the end/start.

Thats good to know - I found myself hitting S all the time (which is what old vegas used to split, but being able to split and delete before / after is very neat! I've been dragging the end point of the video with the cursor so far so this is a nice shortcut! 😀

johnebaker wrote on 4/17/2022, 3:44 AM

@Jon-Smith-Moorhouse

There is a list of keyboard shortcuts in the PDF manual Shortcuts section - the manual is available for download as a PDF file under Help

Many of the shortcuts are editable, however I would not advise changing them to match the Vegas shortcuts.

Personally I have changed/swapped 4 shortcuts for the most used functions I need .

In the Movie Studio and Video Pro X the terminology is a little different from Vegas the main one is what are referred to as 'Events' in Vegas speak are 'Objects' in Magix speak, and a major difference is that all tracks are universal, ie there is no dedicated track for video, audio, titles etc, and the track numbering appears to be upside down ie the background track is track 1 and as you add items to the higher numbered tracks they appear on top of the objects on track 1. This helps a great deal when building Collages or Picture in Picture effects.

HTH

John EB