Did You Know? Clip Data Sliding

[sjoens]

Discovered by accident. This may be documented somewhere but I can't find it in the manual or the key bindings. Don't know what they call it.

Hover over a clip and hold Shift+Alt (or Alt+Shift or any combination of the 2) and the cursor changes to a bi-directional arrow allowing the clip contents to move left or right without affecting the clip's position. Nice for making small alignments. If the end of the contents end up outside the clip, just drag the end of it out.

Works on Audio & MIDI clips.

I turn the mouse click-lock ON so holding the button while dragging is not necessary.

Edited April 16, 2022 by sjoens

[Glenn Stanton]

actually that ability has been around for quite some time. i generally don't use it since i have my nudge keys setup and they only work on whole clips (although i admin to not testing that on the clip edit content)

[reginaldStjohn]

Yep, I use it all the time. I trim clips to quantization points and then move the data to the begining of the clip to time align it. I think it is called slip editing

Edited April 14, 2022 by reginaldStjohn

[Andres Medina]

Didn't know.

I find it very useful and will try on my projects.

Thanks!

[sjoens]

I found it here. As mentioned it's part of the Slip Editing features.