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ozmartian / vidcutter

A modern yet simple multi-platform video cutter and joiner.
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Keyboard shortcuts seek not working #161

Open dcrobertson01 opened 6 years ago

dcrobertson01 commented 6 years ago

Greetings - just trying vidcutter out. Should be what I am looking for. Unfortunatly, the keyboard shortcuts do not seem to work.

The only thing that does work is the scroll wheel on the mouse, which jumps back and forward 1 frame. Make it pretty difficult to get to the bit I want to cut.

I have also used the video editor in Mythtv, and in that, the up/down arrows change the length of the jump, and the left and right arrows jump forward and backward.

So you can hit the up arrow until you get to 5 minutes, then right arrow until you go past the bit you want, then down arrow to get to 2 min, left arrow until you go past the bit, up arrow to get to 20 sec, right arrow etc. Eventually you get to the half second then single frame jumps. Makes zeroing in on the end of the bit you want quite efficient.

I'm running an up to date Kubuntu release - 17.10 Ardvark, with a US international keyboard. Havge not noticed a problem with keyboard shortcuts before.

Any help appreciated,

Cheers

Don

Moonbase59 commented 6 years ago

Same here on Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint 17.3 (used AppImage): Except arrow-left and arrow-right nothing works, even arrow-left gets stuck at some positions in file.

dcrobertson01 commented 6 years ago

I can't get it to save correctly either - just sits on 50 or 60 % for hours until I pull the plug on it.

Pity - it does what I want - just won't save the results.

dcrobertson01 commented 6 years ago

The windows version won't even open the video ....

Moonbase59 commented 6 years ago

Looks like the timeline has to have focus—a detail which I missed. On both tested versions, keyboard shortcuts work when clicking into the timeline before. :-)

marcelpaulo commented 6 years ago

Looks like the timeline has to have focus

Great catch, @Moonbase59 I was struggling with this and was about to open an issue. One click on the timeline and we're good to use keyboard shortcuts !

Mouse wheel up and down moves frame by frame, and works even when the timeline doesn't have focus.

This is really a fabulous video cutter !

Xavion commented 5 years ago

This can probably be fixed by adding global shortcuts for the arrow keys. Failing that, perhaps an event hook (signal/slot) could be used to redirect focus to the timeline and move the bar one notch to the right/left.

Whatever the case, please do something. It is annoying having to click on the timeline before the arrow keys will work, particularly after having to manually remove the previous "clip indexes" (as reported in #224).