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Remove Razor Cut

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
April 2, 2009
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Is there anyway to go back into a sequence and remove a razor cut?

Thanks
Phil

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Curt Wrigley

Inspiring

> I thought grouping worked on vertically selected clips, such as video and audio. Will it work with video clips selected linearly?

Yes.

You may be thinking of Linking

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excited_Genie16B8

Legend

I thought grouping worked on vertically selected clips, such as video and audio. Will it work with video clips selected linearly?

Curt Wrigley

Inspiring

Another thing you can do is select the two clips, right click and Nest.

Or; select the two clips and right click and choose Group if you just want them to stay connected.

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pebalsamoAuthor

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Submited the request...

Thanks again...

Phil

Harm_Millaard

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It all depends on how your preferences are set. If you have 99 undo levels set, going back to your history may be sufficient to resolve the issue. If it is more, then Colin's suggestion may come in handy.

Colin Brougham

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Glad this worked for you. Be sure to ask for enhanced functionality in this regard, like I have...

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pebalsamoAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thanks Colin. I just figured I was missing something. I could do it with Avid so I just assumed I could do it with PPro. Good idea with just deleting the clip and then just dragging.

Hopefully future versions will have a way of doing this...

Thanks
Phil

Colin Brougham

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Phil,

Harm's suggestion works if you've immediately or not too long after changed your mind. However, if it was a while back since you add the edit, undo won't fix the problem.

Unfortunately, PPro lacks this direct ability at this time. The workaround is to select the clip immediately before or immediately after the edit, delete it, and then drag the head or tail of the remaining clip to fill in the gap. You'll have to replace any transitions that existed on the clip you deleted.

Adding a "remove edit" command would be a great feature request...

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DMH79

Inspiring

Three years later and still no way to "one-click reconnect" an accidental razor edit?!

Oh and yes, this is not when you JUST used the razor tool (for which you can of course just undo) but if the cut was made a while back and I don't want to undo all my other edits. And I know I can just delete one clip and drag...but I still can't IDENTIFY easily where this mistaken razor cut is located. It'd be nice to identify where an accidental razor edit was made like in FCP. If a clip is cut with a razor and no further edit is made then nothing happens but it would be nice (for multicam edits specifically) that if its done accidentally, I could easily identify WHERE a razor cut is that does NOT result in a change of clips/angles.

FCP identifies this by having two small red arrows pointing inward on each clip signaling that the two clips are the same continuous clip and then if I right-click on the razor cut I can re-join the clip and the razor cut disappears. Much easier and more helpful. Feature request submitted today HERE. Just hope this isn't overlooked for another 3 years.

the_wine_snob

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Hi Hunt!

Thanks for the response. As I mentioned before I do know that I can simply delete and drag. I also know that it does nothing when outputting, etc. BUT, deleting and dragging eliminates any transition tied to the END of the clip (if its the 2nd sub clip as you stated). So now I have to delete, drag, then reapply the transition. 3 steps instead of one. FCP had it right here allowing me to easily identify the "meaningless" cut, and then simply right click and "re-join" the 2 subclips. Done. Faster. More efficient. Better.

The issue with the cut being meaningless is true BUT it helps to have what FCP has (with the 2 little red arrows showing that the clips can be re-joined) in case I made a mistake in my multicam edit and meant to select another clip there or whatever and now I can quickly go back and check when I'm all done. I know there are several steps at getting around this little inconvenience, but why not borrow a good idea when you see one from FCP (who is losing many of its former users right now to CS6 since they went in a different direction with FCPX) so that there is no inconvenience AT ALL.

That's why I submitted this feature request. Here's to hoping Adobe listens.

Unfortunately, that is about the extent of methods to remove the Cuts.

Sorry, that it was not useful.

Hunt

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pebalsamoAuthor

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This would be after it has been there awhile. I think that most of us understand that if we put one in and decide it is in the wrong spot we know to hit UNDO... Thanks for the help though.

To be more specific I have my main video track on V1 and then the cutaway camera on V2. I just scrubbed through the video and put a bunch of cuts in V2 where I wanted to use the cutaway. After I made about 10 cuts I realized that one of them near the front I did not mean to do. Now I realize that I could just leave it there and the video play just fine over the top of it, but I just want to alleviate any confusion when I go back to remove all the the clips that I do not want in V2. No big deal if there is only a handful of cuts to remember to leave that one there, but I know that i am somewhat forgetful and I will not remember where that cut is until after I have removed a bunch of stuff and realize that something is screwy with my video.

Any suggestions Besides UNDO...

Thanks
Phil

Harm_Millaard

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Try UNDO.

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mattk52417333

Participant

I see what you are doing here Harm, hilarious. This question is about doing what Premiere does easily and intuitively which is "join through edits" and Audition doesn't seem to have the same easy option.