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  • Wed, Jan 18 2006 4:16 PM

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    Trim titles

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    The ability to trim titles irrespective of where you marked it in or out so you would never have insufficent media message.

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  • Wed, Jan 18 2006 4:28 PM In reply to

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    Re: Trim titles

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    That wouldn't make much sense... how can you have more of something that you don't have? 

    One trick is to enter slip mode (red arrow, select title, trim mode) then slip forward a number of frames... this puts extra "handle" on the head and you can trim it back. 

    Or you can enter slide mode (red arrow) and use the trim buttons to move the title as much as you want.  Since a title is a graphic still image, moving it forward or backward in the timeline should do just the same as trimming the head or tail. 

    Or if you still don't like that, create your titles with longer default length (5 mins), then Mark In/Out on the smaller section you need (ie 5 secs) from the middle.  This gives you plenty of room on both sides of the marks to trim however you want.







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  • Tue, Jun 30 2009 5:09 PM In reply to

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    Re: Trim titles

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    It has been suggested elsewhere that title clips should have their default mark-in and position indicator at a point other than the head of the clip, so that there is precisely the trim / transition handles available immediately without having to execute the trim or mark manually.

    This is exactly the behaviour Avid adopts when performing single frame capture: the corresponding freeze-frame clip is automatically marked at it's centre point, the position indicator defaults to the mark.

    Be great to have this behaviour apply to newly created titles.

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