Moving/slotting images and transitions in Timeline Mode

FF22 wrote on 3/27/2020, 2:41 PM

I started a thread due to issues with Pointer Sync in Storyboard mode (that plus it appears that moving stuff around does not really happen when I view in Timeline it's as if I see an older cache or ghost of what I had had). That issue persists even after rebooting and/or restarting. So I'm trying to use Timeline mode. It might be more or the fact that most of my project consists of digital pictures, mostly JPGs.

I have cross-fade transitions between most images. Trying to move say, ONE picture a few slots or even 20 slots forward (further into the project) or back. How do I make room by separating the existing images fore or aft of my selected position. I thought I remembered being able to drag EVERYTHING to the right. Now when I try dragging, only the one item seems to move. I seem to be creating gaps or they just continue to stretch out. And can I easily change the transition times where the new and old merge in timeline mode?

Boy, reading this over, sounds like I've never used the product, whereas I used it for years but mostly in storyboard. I change to time line to slide titles around a bit and lengthen or shorten them and to fade titles in and out.

Maybe I need a larger monitor so I can see stuff easier when I increase timeline values.

Thanks for putting up with oddball questions. Reasonable time to be stuck in the house, even if it is not entirely a reasonable time out THERE!

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FF22 wrote on 3/28/2020, 6:22 PM

@FF22

I would have thought that amount of free space would be more than adequate.

I wish I knew what MEP does internally. I have a stills editing package where if I have too many images in a folder the Editing package tries to load all of them into ram and eventually freezes and falls over and I have 32 gig of ram.

I'm not saying MEP does anything similar as I just don't know where your bottleneck would be and I've never tried to put that many still images into a video.

Was the project always that unresponsive or has it got more sluggish as the project has been added to?

Ray.

Well, there wasn't always that much space. When I started, the c: only had about 4gigs. I moved a slew of stuff off of it the other day when replies here suggested I was way short of space.

All the "objects" are on a usb3 drive so the pictures are not on c:

The project started with importing the 1,200 or so images from the camera. As I proceed through the editing, I then add the images from the phone (another 600) as they fit the timeline and also add the videos. It has grown and continues to grow. Probably won't be more than 1,000 or so images as dupes and rejects are removed.

JOHN - I don't care about my audience. Well, I do and ultimately my audience is me. (g) Reliving hiking and cross-country skiing and more ordinary vacations and trips. I'm getting to that age when the trips get less strenuous or interesting. Although, I have to admit Oct's two weeks seeing the highlights of China was terrific. My more recent trip cross-country skiing in the Dolomites (can anyone see the correlation with virus?) was less energetic than the one 5 years ago. That Iran trip (I've not watched it all yet) looks very interesting but I may wait till things are more settled between our two countries.

Clearly, putting this all together gives me repeated opportunities to see the trip over and over which without the frustrations is part of the fun.

pmikep wrote on 3/28/2020, 6:33 PM

In the old days here in the US, people used to travel for hours (by horseback) to listen to a politician's speech. It wasn't unusual for a speech to last 3 or 4 hours.

Those days are gone.

FF22 wrote on 3/28/2020, 6:43 PM

In the old days here in the US, people used to travel for hours (by horseback) to listen to a politician's speech. It wasn't unusual for a speech to last 3 or 4 hours.

Those days are gone.

Well, the horsecrap is still generated but not by the horse! 😁

CubeAce wrote on 3/28/2020, 6:48 PM

@FF22

This may be a stupid question but is the USB3 drive on a USB3 port?

Are you resizing the images to the export settings before loading into MEP?

If you open Task Manager are you producing any spikes in CPU, GPU, or any drives when playing or scrolling?

What is the ram loading indicating?

Ray.