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Clear all In/Out points in Project

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March 24, 2017
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Hi

Does anybody know a way to clear all InOut points in the project panel.

I want to put all my complete clips into one timeline so I can scrub through them all, but don't want to use the In Out points used already

Is this possible, apart from doing it in the resulting timeline then changing the comp length?

(If only you could extend the Comp length with the otherwise useless timeline top bar, that would be sweeeet!)

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stevenb36558830

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1. Right click the top of the time line where the markers usually sit.

2. Click on "clear in and out"

Overall takes a couple of seconds, nothing complicated like the rest of this page.

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tristansummersAuthor

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please read the thread before posting.

The point is to find a one click way to remove in and out points of hundreds of clips.

It is just a quick workflow way of looking through footage i AE, as it doesn't have a modern file browser, just a tiny thumbnail.

Then have a timeline right there in AE fro finding bits of clips for the after effects project you are in.

Without duplicating the footage, which could take hours to reimport from several sources, as the previous people working on the project did not tidy up after importing multiple badly collected projects from all over the place.

I was just asking if there was a way of avoiding doing it manually, to save time, and somebody somewhere probably has written a fairly simple script to do it.

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Rick Gerard

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tristansummers wrote
please read the thread before posting.
The point is to find a one click way to remove in and out points of hundreds of clips.
It is just a quick workflow way of looking through footage i AE, as it doesn't have a modern file browser, just a tiny thumbnail

Hundreds of clips? Are you editing in After Effects? 99% of my comps are one shot under seven seconds long because AE is not an editing system, it's a motion graphics and compositing system. In more than 20 years using AE I've never seen a professional load hundreds of video clips in a single project file. It's just nuts.

On the rare occasion where I need a lot of video clips in a single comp, they are always pre-edited in PPro and either brought in through dynamic link or the project is opened in After Effects because I can make a rough edit of a dozen or more clips in PPro in about 1/10 the time it takes to cut them in AE. Sounds to me like you are trying to drive nails with a screwdriver. Using the right tool for the job will make your life a lot simpler than trying to force AE to become a video editing app.

Roei Tzoref

Legend

Does anybody know a way to clear all InOut points in the project panel.
I want to put all my complete clips into one timeline so I can scrub through them all, but don't want to use the In Out points used already

tristansummers
1. select all your footage items in the project window
2. press Ctrl+D to duplicate them - this will create duplicates and clear their existing in/out points
you might at this point, as they are highlighted, drag them to a new folder for order's sake

now you got duplicates of the clips with in/out as the whole duration to do whatever you wish with them

Roland Kahlenberg

Legend

An alternative is to select all footage items and drag them into the Footage Panel. Then double-click on the layer stem, representing the footage's IO points (as you've also mentioned earlier). Then use SHIFT+. to cycle to the next item in the Footage Panel (SHIFT+, to cycle to the previous item) and commit to the double-clicking - it's pretty quick and is the best alternative if you don't want to create duplicate footage items in the Project Panel. Keep in mind that if you Consolidate Footage, you'll lose the duplicate copies.

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TKane31

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Highlight all the clips in your bin use clear in to out under markers pull down

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tristansummersAuthor

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Thanks Rick for trying to explain my problem by the way.

Almost.

I have a zillion bits of footage, across many many comps, and pre comps, or not in any comp.

I just want to look at the footage.

It's actually very useful to grab a big footage folder, drag it into one big comp and scrub through looking for interesting elements.

In a unwieldy sprawling unorganised comp left by the many AE "artists" out there, i can search for say . mov and find all the footage. Repeat for other file extensions maybe.

I can't just reimport it as i don't know where it is.

I can't do it individually as that would take about a week and the deadlines in an hour, or whatever.

It is about management and navigation within the project.

I have to work on other people's projects where people have sorted and sourced footage into thousands of folders, across multiple servers, because designers are undisciplined and lazy and think It is ok to do so.

Even if the project is very organised, is still a good way of seeing what you have available.

Rather than going and looking through all the other comps or clicking through each item of footage i can scrub one timeline. Maybe if at had a proper browser i wouldn't need it but it is, for me a great form of consolidation that allows quick iterative testing and reversioning.

It allows me to test all sorts of things across all the footage with one adjustment layer.

It isn't the end of the world to stretch the layers out.

It would just be nice not to have to.

I get the point about it being editing, but i can't find and swap out different footage into comps from premiere.

Also, i don't know if you have opened after effects recently but it does play back in real time. Stripe a few good m2 drives and you can play 4k dpx if you want to.

I actually like video editing in ae anyway, despite its willfull determination to snap incorrectly. Id rather edit where my effects and keyframes, parenting and precomps are.

If i find a script i will let you know.

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Rick Gerard

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I know AE can playback in real time but it still has to render a preview.

Premiere Pro on the other hand can play at two or four or eight times real speed just by pressing a key. Are usually review my footage at eight times real time. Been doing that since the film days when I would spin through footage on the movie scope as fast as my arms to turn the crank.

I also preview and Mark sound most of the time at two times normal speed. About the only time I watch anything in real time is after I have made a cut.

The first thing I do want to get a project in from someone else is to organize and name the folders that came with it. I'm cutting a feature right now and the sound guy recorded six tracks of audio on every take even though most of the time 4 of them had no microphone connected. All of this folders had the same name and every time he started the new SD card file numbers were reset so I had hundreds duplicate file names. I had todo all the sorting by date created. Believe me, I know other peoples messes are really messy. Premieres media browser and search function is a really great way to start the excruciating process of cleanup and organization.

Dave_LaRonde

Inspiring

tristansummers wrote
I want to put all my complete clips into one timeline so I can scrub through them all, but don't want to use the In Out points used already.

Here comes a Premiere Pro mention again.

This is a task best done in PP. It's a lot faster at this kind of stuff than AE.

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tristansummersAuthor

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Er.

Not in the middle of a long AE project it isn't.

This is a bit like taking a car in to the garage and them saying, "You'd be better off getting the bus"

I guess I could open Premiere, copy the clips from AE into a sequence in Premiere and see if that takes out the in out points.

As a way of working, I am not going in to Premiere every time I want to select a piece of footage.

I'm basically picking up an AE project. It's made with hundreds of clips. I want to look for extra footage I can swap out from the existing footage. A quick way to that would be to stick them in a timeline. Would be even quicker if it hadn't been built with InOut points set in the footage window. But freelancers can't control what comes before them.

I know you guys are trying to help and make sure I have thought of the right workflow. But the answer to the actual question appears to be no! Maybe thre is an easy way to do it one at a time in the footage window but not to them all. So either try pasting into Premiere or open a new, for some dumb reason 30000 frames only, long comp and stick them in there, hit some bracket keys and resequence.

Dave_LaRonde

Inspiring

Being forced to use AE as a video editing application. Ugh. I feel your pain.

There are worse video editors than AE, but not many. Microsoft Word comes to mind.

That gives you an idea how bad AE is at handling chores that are a piece of cake in a video editor.

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tristansummersAuthor

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Ah. No that is where you are incoorect. The In and Out points stay with the Footage. Maybe only if you set in and out points BEFORE adding to timeline. I coud just re-import them all, but that would take a while as some clever project manager put them all in folders. There must be a way to clear them... It's not so hard to make a lomg comp and re-sequence layers. just hoped there may be a cheeky way to do it. Maybe in future I will duplicate them into another folder, hopefully the names wont get all incrementally shafted by AE in the process.

kirkeric

Inspiring

Ok, then I defer to you, though now I'm curious where and how do they stay with the footage? Some digital mark that is not visible I have to imagine, in which case, wouldn't just aligning them all left, sort of accomplish that?

I've never set an in or out point before adding to the timeline, not even quite sure how that would be done, unless they were set in Premiere and then copied in to AE via dynamic link, etc.

Eric

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tristansummersAuthor

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double click the layer. It opens in the footage window. set in and out points. Well actually set your OUT point first as the in point can't overtake a previous out point, annoyingly. Then click the overlay button to add to comp. So it saves it in the footage window. Useful if you want to make sublips.

kirkeric

Inspiring

Are you referring to Premiere?

If so, this will walk you right through it: https://youtu.be/GBkyrM_Wxo8

Eric

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tristansummersAuthor

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Nope. That would be in the Premiere forum but thanks for checking.

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