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[Santiago Romero <801342@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.

Thanks for choosing this "wish" to implement it.

I've never used Non Linear Video Editors widely before, I tested kino,
kdenlive and openshot and I selected openshot because it was easier to
use for me and because it was written in python... so I can only answer
about "what I was expecting" and not "what other video editors
implement".

About removing clips, it's all said:

[CLIP1]...(gap)...[CLIP2][CLIP3]...(gap)...[CLIP4]

(You click in AUTOCOLLAPSE)

[CLIP1][CLIP2][CLIP3][CLIP4]

About adding clips, maybe you could click in a given clip and have 2
options in the context menu:

"Add clips before this clip"  
"Add clips after this clip"

(or "before selected clip" or "before current clip"...)

It's directly intuitive (text describes it correctly) and adds the 2
possibilites that an user could need.

Both options would bring up the "Add to timeline" menu but will add the
selected clips before or after the current clip. By default, the track
of the selected clip should be "configured" by default in the "Add to
timeline" menu but you can change it to use a different track or even a
new track.

Allowing to add clips to a different or new track would allow the user
to add music or clips for transitions just at the exact time as the
current clip without having to place them manually. As an example, if
you want to add music starting exactly when a concrete clip, you can
click over it, select ("add clips before this clip"), select an audio
file, select a NEW track, and the audio will be inserted at the exact
time than the selected clip, but in a new track, without displacing any
item, so music + current clip will be synchronized.

I hope this helps.

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Title:
  Suggestion: collapse clips to "fill" gaps and automove clips to insert
  new

Status in OpenShot Video Editor:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  
   Hi.

   This is not a bug, it's a suggestion, but I don't know how to
  classify it as "wishlist" / "suggestion".

   The main problem in OpenShot is removing and adding new clips in the
  beginning/middle of the timeline when your project has grown, as you
  end moving manually all clips or counting "duration" to use the "Shift
  clips" tool to move them with offset.

  1. REMOVING CLIPS:

   Currently I check clip properties, write down in a paper the
  Duration, and use the "Shift Clips" feature with -duration (negative
  value) to move all clips back in time and fill the gap, but it would
  be very nice to have the option to "autocollapse" clips to fill gaps:

  [CLIP1].....[CLIP2][CLIP3].....[CLIP4]

  (You click in AUTOCOLLAPSE)

  [CLIP1][CLIP2][CLIP3][CLIP4]

   This way you can happily remove clips and rearrange the timeline
  automatically. If you need to insert a new clip,

  2.- ADDING CLIPS:

   Currently I check the new clip properties, write down in a paper the
  Duration, and use the "Move Clips" feature with +duration to leave gap
  for the clip, and then I move it.

   It would be nice to have an option to add an item to the timeline
  automatically moving all the clips in that point after or before it.

   Besides those 2 suggestions, if you also correct the following bugs,
  Openshot would be almost perfect, surely the best video editor
  available in Linux:

  3.- Fade In/Out Glitches Bug:
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/520941

  4.- Icons etc. disappearing
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/505578
   
   Please, keep the GOOD work.

   A release adding / correcting the previous 4 features / bugs would be
  highly celebrated :-)

   Thanks!

  PS : Versions.

  [sromero@compiler:~]$ lsb_release -a
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 11.04
  Release:	11.04
  Codename:	natty

  [sromero@compiler:~]$ dpkg -l openshot
  ii  openshot            1.3.0-maverick1     Create and edit videos and movies

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