Blender VSE: Cut & Move other strips accordingly?

Hello,

I recently finished working on my second movie in Blender using 3pointedit’s proposed workflow here. It’s a great workflow, but there is one thing which annoys me. I haven’t found a way I can easily revise my cutting. I hope this situation demonstrates what I mean.

Selecting all clips to the right and the right arrow of the clip essentially does the job. It is however very cumbersome, especially if you need to adjust and check the results several times. Is there another way I can do this easily?

  • Bastian

PS: This was my end result, feedback is more than welcome!

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The most obvious way to make it less cumbersome is to assign “select strips to the left/right” to some convenient hotkeys. Probably “select left/right handle” as well.
With the current defaults, D/F and alt+D/F seem like reasonable choices.

since I have them in front of me anyway, these are the operators (if that’s the correct term):
sequencer.select_active_side
sequencer.select_handles

Have you tried the excellent addon http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Sequencer/Extra_Sequencer_Actions

Current-Frame-Aware SelectSelect strips on all channels according to current frame. Available modes are:

  • Before (select all strips before current frame),
  • After (select all strips after current frame),
  • On (select all strips underneath playhead).

Thanks for the tip and how-to! It works great, I now got D assigned to selecting all strips on the left and F assigned to selecting all strips on the right.

In fact I do have it installed, I just wasn’t aware that it had that feature. Thanks for the tip!

By the way, encn’s method and the method provided through the Extra Sequencer Actions addon give different results. With the commands encn suggested, only the strips on the current channel are selected. The addon however, selects all strips on either the right or left side no matter what channel they are placed at. I guess I will have to try and see which feature I use the most and change my hotkeys D/F according to that. Thank you all for the help, it is greatly appreciated! Especially looking forward to seeing more tutorials from you, 3pointedit!

EDIT: Err, I don’t seem to be able to use the Extra Sequencer Action commands for hotkeys. Can anyone confirm? I am trying with these:


bpy.ops.sequencerextra.selectcurrentframe(mode='AFTER')
bpy.ops.sequencerextra.selectcurrentframe(mode='BEFORE')

Maybe I am doing something wrong?

I think that you have to use source from the button instead. The addon select L/R tool was designed exactly because of the nature of the built in select function :wink:
Do you assign this way?

@3pointEdit: No, I do not assign that way. I do it through the Input tab in settings. I tried to check if I could right-click on the menu items to add a shortcuts now, but that’s not the case though. One Question:

What do you mean by this?

If you are just trying to select all clips to the right of the playhead, hover the cursor anywhere RIGHT of the playhead and press CTL-RightClick. To select all clips to the left of the playhead, hover the cursor anywhere LEFT of the playhead, press CTL-Leftclick

@daren: Thank you so much for this tip! That’s exactly what I am looking for. Great to hear that it’s that easy. :slight_smile:

…Another satisfied customer…

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