Video editor: Manual

Browser compatibility: This editor was designed and tested for Firefox and Google Chrome. It should work with Safari in principle but is not extensively tested.

Overview

Overview

Player Buttons

Buttons

  1. Play/Pause
    • Plays or pauses the video
  2. Previous Marker
    • Jumps to the previous chapter beginning
  3. Previous Frame
    • Seeks one frame backwards
  4. Split at current time
    • Inserts a new marker at the current position in the video
  5. Play at current playhead with pre roll and post roll excluding removed items
    • Plays the currently selected segment with a certain amount of time before and after it, deleted segments being excluded
  6. Next Frame
    • Seeks one frame forward
  7. Next Marker
    • Jumps to the next chapter beginning

Segment Overview

There are two colors to display the different states of the segment:

  • Red
    • The segment is marked as "remove"
    • The segment will be cut out in the following processing
  • Green
    • The segment is marked as "keep"
    • The segment will be kept in the following processing
    • The segment is currently selected
  • White
    • The segment is as "keep"
    • The segment will be kept in the following processing
    • The segment is currently not selected

On the one hand the segments are being displayed directly beneath the player above the waveform display:

Segments

On the other hand there is a segment list:

Segment list

  1. Clear segment list
    • Clears the segment list, removes all segments
  2. Re-add the item
    • Re-adds the removed item (marks it as "keep") to not remove the item on processing
  3. Remove this item
    • Removes the item (marks it as "remove") to remove the item on processing
  4. Set start time of the segment
    • Sets a new start time of the segment
  5. Set end time of the segment
    • Sets a new end time of the segment

Zooming The Waveform

For more easy and precise cutting the waveform can be zoomed in via the zoom scrubber:

Zoom bar

When zoomed in you can click directly into the waveform to seek exactly to the time you clicked:

  1. Zoom in the waveform: Zoom 1

  2. Click at a point you want to seek to: Zoom 2

  3. The player seeks exactly to the time you wanted to seek to: Zoom 3

Shortcuts

Many shortcuts are mapped for nearly every operation:

Shortcuts