As an occasional Kdenlive user, I’ve noticed that a common feature on other editors is missing: the ability to use the Razor Tool exactly at the playhead position while using the mouse.
The functionality is already available by right-clicking the clip in question with the Selection Tool and selecting Cut Clip.
Coming from other editors, I expected the Razor Tool itself to snap to the playhead once hovered with the mouse, in the same way as moving a clip with the Selection Tool does; from a quick search on this forum, however, it appears that the Razor Tool is designed to behave in the same way as moving the playhead, not matching my intuitive expectation:
Cut Clip is absent from the Razor Tool’s context menu, and that’s the second place I’d look at when trying to split a clip into two:
Hello @steffo, and welcome to the forum and community.
Thanks for your suggestions. I let others chime in on them, but wrt
This is not the context menu of the Razor Tool (or any tool, for that matter, except for the Select tool where it also has actions for the clip when hovering over one) but the context menu of the timeline/sequence or track.
It being unclear we can fix.
It being unread, or saying different things to what you imagined, not so much.
The functionality is already available by right-clicking the clip in question with the Selection Tool
You don’t even need to click anything. Just hit ‘R’. You don’t even need to read the docs for this one, the context menu tells you about that every time you open it.
So why would you want to switch to the razor tool if that is all, and exactly what, you want to do, and it’s right there at your fingertips? Or why do you think it would be better if that tool duplicated exactly the behaviour of the selection tool and the operations you can perform with it without needing to switch tools at all?
Cut Clip is absent from the Razor Tool’s context menu
Why would you duplicate that as an option in the context menu, or want to open it to do that operation, when that is the primary operation of the tool, which it performs when you click somewhere with it active?
I don’t know what you learned your habits on - but you seem to be suggesting we are missing a way more complicated method, with many more steps needed, to do a job that right now takes one button press, or one mouse click, depending on the type of cutting you want to do? Which doesn’t seem like a bad thing to me. Other than that maybe you need to unlearn some bad habits to really benefit from it?
