Nudge clip one frame at a time

I can move my clip one frame over by pressing "Shift" and the > or < key.
But after I've done that once showing a synch discrepancy of +1 or -1, then next time I do it, the increment is +5 or -5.

Is this normal? I need to be able to continue moving the clip +1 or -1 frame at a time.
Thanks for telling me how!
Roxane

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8), FCP 6.0.6

Posted on Aug 26, 2010 3:02 PM

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Aug 26, 2010 3:15 PM in response to Roxane Assaf

Use the Trim Forward and Trim Backward buttons (Shift-] and Shift-[) to perform the selected trim operation to the outgoing and incoming clips on either side of the edit point. The inner trim buttons trim an edit point by one frame, while the outer, multi- frame trim buttons adjust edit points by a default duration of five frames. You can perform ripple and roll edits using these buttons while the selected edit plays back, trimming frame by frame while you watch the selected edit loop over and over.

The number of frames the multi-frame trim buttons add or subtract can be changed in the Editing tab of the User Preferences window.

Aug 26, 2010 3:17 PM in response to D Gilmore

I just went into User Preferences and changed the "Multi-frame Trim Size" from 5 frames to 1 frame. Then when I'd SHIFT >, it would give me +1 and -1 as I wanted.

But the information you just gave is VERY important, especially as I needed to learn what values I was talking about (seconds vs. frames).

I had desperately tried such things as Shift+Option + > or just Option + > when I was trying to make it work. That didn't do it. I think my software might be malfunctioning.

Thank you!

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