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The slip/slide toggle is great but....

There's no indication which mode I am in - could the 'trim edit mode' button indicate the current trim edit mode with a colour maybe?

Also what is the trick (I seem to remember there was one) to suppressing the 4-up display?

The indication is present in the toolbar and can be toggled via the Trim menu (Toggle Slide Mode)
The previews can be turned on/off via Trim > Enable Previews during Editing.

It would be helpful if the slip/slide indicator displayed in ordinary Trim mode ("T"), rather than just Dynamic Trim Mode ("W").

When initiating keyboard slips/slides, there's no way to discern the mode. And the slip overlay doesn't come up with keyboard trims (as it does with the mouse), so there's no sense of how much footage remains at head and tail.

Thanks both

I agree that a better indication in Trim mode would be good. Red border to clips when in slip mode, yellow in slide mode would make sense to me.

It should be active in selection mode too, plus slip/slide should have dedicated shortcuts. I've just added to the R16 feature request.

PS
In Dynamic trim - Slip mode, changing from Trim to Selection tool does not exit that mode but the keyboard shortcuts now only slide. This doesn't make sense to me.

We need to look into that Trevor. Thanks for comments.

Peter Chamberlain wrote:We need to look into that Trevor. Thanks for comments.

Thanks Peter.

There's currently three modes of trimming -
a. 'selection' mode (which is overwrite trimming - leaving filler)
b. 'trim' mode (which is ripple trimming)
c. 'dynamic trim' mode (as trim mode plus JKL trimming)

Not sure dynamic needs to be different - should maybe be subsumed into trim mode (I don't have enough editing experience on Resolve though - there may be consequences?)

And maybe both selection and trim modes should offer overwrite/ripple trims with a keyboard toggle and colour change on the trim selectors. Similarly I'd like to be able to toggle slip/slide in selection mode (and have dedicated seperate keystrokes to slip by frames and slide by frames).

Trimming is such an integral part of an NLE - it's one reason Avid retains the dominant position in parts of the market.