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Cool and useful Edius tips and shortcuts

Drag a video clip with audio onto an audio track such as 1A, this will strip the video and you can use the audio.

While moving a clip on the timeline, press shift, this will disable snap until you let go of the shift key.

Press Ctrl+T at timeline cursor position and a still image will appear in your bin, you can use that still as a freeze frame. Ctrl+T remembers the format of the last manual still image export. If the last manual image export was tga with lower field first, Ctrl+T will create the same format.

Place cursor in between 2 timeline clips and press Alt+1, this will create a 1 sec transition, press Alt+2 for a 2 sec transition, press Alt+3 for a 3 sec transition and so on.......

Change clips in bin from 16:9 to 4:3 aspect or vice versa by right clicking, properties, there you can change the field order and the thumbnail of the clip

Change clips audio from stereo to left mono or right mono by right clicking, properties

Place any effect at the beginning or end of any clip by expanding the clip on timeline to reveal keyer section, drag any effect to the left of the keyer area for a fade in or fly in etc., drag any effect to the right of the keyer for fade out or fly away etc....

Crop and Stretch any clip by right clicking, Layout.....

Quickly move from edit point to edit point on timeline with page up and down buttons.

Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+0 are used for quickly zooming timeline work area, Ctrl+1 = zoomed in to a 1 frame level, Ctrl+0 = zoomed in to always fit entire project. Ctrl+2 and Ctrl+3 are most common for normal editing.

Right click any audio or opacity node, click move, this will allow you to move the node in DB or % by rolling the mouse wheel or typing

Press Alt while dragging a node up and down and all nodes will move up and down.

Quickly fade in an audio clip by pressing Shift+V, timeline cursor must be parked at start of clip to be faded. The duration of the fade can be set in preferences, V-mute duration. To fade out an audio clip the same way, the timeline cursor must be moved left by 1 frame from the end of the clip.

You can fade any audio or video manually by simply clicking to create a node, then pulling the start node or end node down.

Quickly locate unused clips on timeline with the bin search function, then you can drag these clips to a temp bin and delete its contents

To copy/paste a transition, simply drag it

To place transitions between all clips in one hit, press Shift+A to select entire timeline or Ctrl+A to select entire track, then drag the transition in between the first 2 clips, all others will automatically be added. (If you only want to do a certain number of clips, Ctrl select them or rubber band them).

To select all clips on entire timeline, press Shift+A

To place effects on all clips in one hit, press Shift+A to select entire timeline or Ctrl+A to select entire track and drag an effect to the first clip. (If you only want to do a certain number of clips, Ctrl select them or rubber band them).

To change the volume of any track, open the audio mixer. To change the volume of several tracks as a synchronised unit, use the gang feature of the audio mixer.

Preview any transition or effect all day long before committing it by simply pressing the play button. The effect will be played in preview window and external monitor in a loop until you click stop. The effect will also be played while modifying any of the effects parameters in any of the config tabs.

Quickly set thumbnails for your clips in the bin by clicking the clip with the mouse wheel button, then moving the mouse right for forward scroll or back for reverse scroll. See How

Easily mix 4:3 clips into 16:9 project with the use of the layout tool. Place a generic 16:9 background or animated background on V1, place a 4:3 clip on V2, right click the 4:3 clip and click Layout, set fill color to 0% resulting in the 16:9 background filling the otherwise black sidebars

To get Titlemotion Pro started with your favorite font, decoration and alignment etc., simply set all as you would like, then go to the file menu and click Template Manager then click the Update button on the default template

To quickly and easily change a rubberband node, let the timeline cursor snap to it, then press the Y key on the keyboard, this opens the property pallete Use the U key to delete any node at timeline cursor position.

To copy a filter from one clip to another or to many clips in one hit, See How

To measure duration of any section of the timeline, set an I at start of measure point and O at end of measure point and the preview monitor will show the duration See How

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Default Key shortcut for adding audio crossfade (Edius 6)

In Edius 5.5 I used to add audio crossfade only by just pressing ALT+1 while having the audio in one of the A tracks (grouped with video). Now in Edius 6 this also adds the video transition, which I don't want. Is there a shortcut to add JUST the default audio crossfade?
(By the way, the "add default transition to crossfade" I have unchecked. )
Second thing I would like to ask - In Edius 6 I also miss the shortcut to change track focus. In Edius 5.5 it was the up / down arrow. Is this gone or am I just missing something?
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Old 07-22-2011, 10:12 AM
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I confirm your findings Johnny, and confirm crossfade behaviour has got worse with E6. I do not have a fix but to add more info:

Many years ago with E3, there was a KB shortcut that applied the default crossfade (without adding a transition if the settings were ticked accordingly)

This feature got broken with the release of E4.0 and has been missing ever since.

I reported this and demo'd to Jeremy (Aus) and Alex (Japan) at IBC about 4/5 years ago when E4 was released.

It appears that, not enough people notice this or request a fix so its never been addressed

The workaround i've been using with E4 & E5 is KB shortcut "Paste Transition (Out Point)"

The downside is, it is a longer process and relies on the clipboard not being over written by another copy event.

After booting edius, you have to drag a crossfade between 2 clips, then do ctrl+c with the crossfade still selected. Then every time you select the audio of a clip and press the KB shortcut defined for "Paste Transition (Out Point)", a crossfade is applied between the clip and the next (assuming sufficient header material). However, say you do another ctrl+c to copy a clip or filter etc, the crossfade gets lost from the clipboard and you have to repeat the procedure of dragging a new crossfade and copying or copying one already on the timeline. Major pain when you regularly want to copy color correction filters plus also want to apply crossfades.

As mentioned, this worked perfect with E3.

I've only been using E6 for a few days but notice the E4 & E5 workaround above doesnt work all the time. The behaviour is intermittent, working once or a few times then stops applying any more despite clipboard not being overwritten also plenty header material. I havent worked out yet why this is.

Doing a search in the custom keyboard shortcut settings for "crossfade", there is only one command i can find "Delete Clip Crossfade"

What we need is a "Apply Default Crossfade" command.

or

Better still so we can make use of Alt+1 etc for different duration crossfades, when selecting the audio part of a clip with associated video, the behaviour needs changing for KB shortcut "Set Default Transition" (and Alt+1 etc) This needs changing to take into account the settings tick box and prevent a transition being applied to the video.

Am I missing something? why are more people not reporting this? GV have not fixed in 4/5 years and its not going to get on a fix list if its only a problem for a handful of people...
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Old 07-22-2011, 10:31 AM
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Hi Mark

try this and see if it suits

1. select clip in front of cut point
2. Alt+click audio of following clip (middle third, if using VA track)
3. apply default transition with timeline toolbar icon or Ctrl+P or hit Alt+1 etc

the same works if you only want a video trans, you would alt+click the video (top third)
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Old 07-22-2011, 11:31 AM
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Hi Anton

Thanks as always for your speedy and helpful reply.

That works, but instead of "1. select clip in front of cut point", if i instead park the timeline playhead before the edit point, then Alt + click the following clip audio, i get a centred audio crossfade which is what i want - cool!

That's a workaround to keep me going for the time being.

I havent managed to discover a way of doing a KB equivalent of Alt + mouse click to select audio only.

A one click keyboard shortcut is still a great time saver, I will try and get this reported officially again.

I top & tail clips at speed without using the mouse. I move clip focus with alt+arrow keys. Trim in and outs with KB, scrub and playback with KB. I only use the mouse when I cant do something with the KB. I want to hit one key to apply a centred crossfade to the next edit point. As existed with E3.

BTW on a separate issue, you replied to a post of mine a while back re Edius locking up and white borders round windows when multitasking/switching away from edius to Win OS or another app. The previous problem was fixed by disabling/ uninstalling a virus checker I had forgotten was still running on my system after a troubleshooting spell. I've noticed since E6, the problem is back again and i've not installed any virus checker. I noticed in the icon task bar a "Microsoft security essentials" program running, perhaps was a recent Win 7 update. I disabled this along with exiting all running task icons to test. I dont think its as bad as it was when i had the virus checker running but now I get about a 5 to 6 second freeze, then white border for a couple of seconds, so about 7 or 8 secs delay. I get a similar delay the first time i click the "Export" icon below the preview monitor or the first time i select "tools" from the menu. Do you get this with E6 & Win 7? any thoughts?
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no delay problems here at all with E6.03 and Win7/64

however, there is nothing of any kind running here, no MS security essentials, I would uninstall them, disabling may not be enough

and here is what I use to see what is running and lots more info and ways to prevent them from autostarting

http://www.aida64.com/online-store (Extreme Editions)
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That's a workaround to keep me going for the time being.
It is not a workaround it is how EDIUS 6 works.
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Old 07-22-2011, 02:17 PM
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Alt + click is by design, agree. I've been using for split edits since day one although I hadn't thought to use for crossfades until Anton pointed out. However its still a missing or broken feature not having a direct one click keyboard shortcut for applying audio crossfades.

It is too common a practice, not to have a KB shortcut.

With E3 and earlier you used to be able to apply crossfades with one KB button press, with the clip selected normally, which you can do by KB. Mouse in combination with shortcuts requires extra steps and too slow if applying a few hundred crossfades a day and cutting hours of rushes.
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Old 07-23-2011, 05:56 AM
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I think most crossfades are done with multiple clips. In that case selecting those multiple clips and dragging and dropping to all at once is faster.
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Old 07-25-2011, 08:38 AM
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My workflow is usually one at a time, some need J or L adjustments, some need duration adjustments, most of time is necessary to preview and adjust individually.
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