Hello! I’ve been using Kdenlive recently for my project and I have to say its trimming features are awesome, but there’s a feature it would be so useful to me right now, I usually to a lot of trimming on videos and as i have to remember where should I cut, i usually put a marker, but even with only shortcuts and markers, the trimming process is still very long (probably over 300 markers in 3 minutes of video), so i had this idea of doing multiple trims at once.
You would press a “bulk trimming with markers” option where you can trim the clip exactly where the markers are, this would apply only to the selected item in the timeline and it shouldn’t create subclips to enhance the workflow, only the timeline. It would be a blessing to have something like that with clips (and sequences too!).
Silly question maybe, but … why don’t you just cut them at the time you decide to put a marker there instead of putting the marker there?
This isn’t like cutting Real Film - if you later decide that you cut in the wrong place you can always move either end of the cut clip to include more or less footage.
The biggest problem with using markers as a proxy for cuts is that’s not the only reason to use markers - which might be fixable, but this is something I do a lot too (cut long takes into many pieces), and I’m not clear on why you’ve added this extra step of marking them first instead of just cutting them?
I understand that it works quite well to add markers while playing back the clip using the Add Marker Quickly feature with Numpad *. Cutting with Shift+R stops playback and is therefore not as convenient.
In a second pass you can then use Alt+<arrow_keys> to jump from marker to marker and then press Shift+R for the cut. It has the advantage that you are not forced to make a cut should you find out that there shouldn’t be one. Just skip over that marker. If you had made a cut before with that new feature you are asking for, you cannot reverse that: Ctrl+Z (undo) may undo many more cuts, and you cannot merge or glue back a cut clip (well, there are methods but that’s not the point here and would take a bit longer to explain).
Which still isn’t to say there isn’t some valid use case here - this just seemed like the obvious “one track” analogue of how the multi-cam mode works …
