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Jog Forward One Second

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November 10, 2019
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TLDR: Is there a way to jog forward on the timeline 1 second (not frames, for god sake not frames)?

I've been working on a project for roughly six years now, filming a few seconds a day and cutting these down to one, sort of a life journal. Yes, i know, 'cool project for a high schooler', but I enjoy doing it and it feels rewarding for me.

So the workflow is essentially, I pull in gopro, dslr, iphone clips and manual cut one second from a clip by finding my location I like, cutting, going to sequenece time and entering 1 second ontop of the existin time point, then cutting again, deleting both sides of the outer clip. This was okay when I would work on the project once a month, but at this point I'm doing it once a year and the work flow is maddening.

I'm looking for any way to jog forward on my timeline by 1 second, with the difference in frames per project the +1 or +5 frames does not cut it.

Any suggestions? Any Macro apps that folks like/trust?

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Correct answer Averdahl

I press +100 followed by Enter on the Numeric keypad on my keyboard move forward one second.

I think +1,0 will do the trick as well, but i prefer +100 since its faster for me.

MyerPj

Community Expert

Just and FYI: Adobe enhanced the timecode input method a little bit, so you press +1. to move 1 second forward. Saves a keystroke. 🙂

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Michael Grenadier

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that preference trick is great although since I work in both 24p and 30p will not be that useful for me. Also, gotta say that it would be nice if this was something you could assign to a keyboard combo with a 1 second unit that would work for whatever the frame rate is.

ztoddAuthor

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I'm totally with you. I've added a macro app to click shift-right arrow 6 times, changed my timeline to 30fps, this jumps me forward 1 second, but of course only on exactly 30fps timeliens... would love an actual 'time' jog option

gerikp

Community Expert

What you just wrote got me to thinking. So I opened up a Keyboard Maestro which is an app for creating macros that I use in MacOS and I was able to make two separate shortcuts. One for advancing 1 second in a 29.97 timeline and another for advancing 1 second in a 23.976 timeline. Then I just use whichever shortcut I need depending on what frame rate my timeline is in.

gerikp

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Go to Preference > Playback. Then change "Step forward/back many:" setting to the number of frames you want to jog forward. So if you are working on a 24fps timeline enter 24 for one second. Click OK and now use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Right Arrow to step forward 24 frames. You can also use Shift+Left Arrow to move backward 24 frames.

LRN2DIY

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As someone who doesn't use a 10 key, this is gold. I set mine up for 120 frames (5 seconds at 24 fps) and it works like a charm! Thanks for sharing!

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

just make sure NOTHING is selected in the timeline otherwise that selection will move down 1 second. If you're zoomed in on the timeline, you may not see the selection... I almost always hit deselect all before doing this kind of thing. I've got it mapped to command-d cause it's easier for me to remember....

Averdahl

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Community Expert

I press +100 followed by Enter on the Numeric keypad on my keyboard move forward one second.

I think +1,0 will do the trick as well, but i prefer +100 since its faster for me.

ztoddAuthor

Known Participant

That may work! I just tried it (and also now realize it matters which 'enter' i select) and it def could do it for me. I'll see if it works flow wise, thanks @averdahl!

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