Let's say I want to separate 2 clips by 10 mili seconds,
And if we have :
- 1000 ms -> 30 frames
- 10 ms -> x ?
=> x = 0.3 frame,
I tried with extendscript and I tried with the mouse, I wasnt able to get move a clip between the "frames",
This means there is no difference between a 2 distances of 1 and 33,33 mili seconds I suppose?
1) This means I MUST separate my clips of at least 0.033 s to avoid having clips Overlaping? Otherwise one clip could for example:
- end at 10 sec + 33 ms, and the other
- starts at 10 sec + 2 ms
=> Both will start/end at either 10sec+0 frame or 10 sec +1 frame
If they start/end at frame 0 then clip 2 will start even if clip 1 hasnt ended yet
if they start at frame 1, then clip 2 will start late.
First scenario happened to me too many times To believe the lesser frame is always taken in account when doing this:
targetATrack.insertClip(someItem, someTime);
if someTime (IN SECONDS) correspond to the times I gave earlier (10sec + 2 or 33 ms) then the result will be 10 sec + 0 frame = 10 sec. instead of 10 sec + 1 frame = 10.03333334 seconds. Right? In any case both will overlap and cauze problems if you dont use "overwriteClip" I believe.
2) Is there any way to get more "distance" in the clip tracks?
3) In any case, lets say I have 2 clips and I want 0 DISTANCE between both of them, how do I automate adding one after the other with an extendscript code?
Some FOR loop that takes a collection of clips and add them one after the other without caring about the timing? I will make its own post for this quesiton because this post is getting more andmore complicated.
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"This means I MUST separate my clips of at least 0.033 s to avoid having clips Overlaping?" ->You can use the sequence's frame rate to compute the duration of a frame in Ticks.
But even if I computed it in frames or any other metric, I am unable to insert a clip in between frames is that correct? Look:
Meaning , all clips must be separated of at least 33 ms (and its corresponding value in Ticks) right?
I mean even manually, you cannot move a clip in between 2 frames, the clip either in the frame before or the one after.
(In this example the clip will either be 00:00:00:05 or 00:00:00:06 you cannot put it between them = aka: you cannot insert a clip less than 34 seconds after the previous one, am I wrong? otherwise they will overlap, correct?
Edit: All the blue/red arrow and stars are areas where you CANNOT add a clip.
2) I meant, is there a way to obtain more "frames" or maybe keep the frames but allow the clips to be added in between the frames? I meant obtain more "space" in between the 2 seconds, instead of the limiting 30 points. (I suppose it is not possible because the video outputed is like 30 frames a sec.
3) Ok I will go check it out.
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