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I'm trying to perform a Slide Edit using keyboard shortcuts. Very very commonly used move in editing.

If I enter Trim Mode and use the <> shortcut keys it defaults to a Slip Edit. It seems that I can drag the clip toward the bottom and it will perform a Slide Edit as I drag, and now if I use the <> keys it will Slide Edit left or right a frame at a time.

But, is there a way to perform the Slide Edit via the keyboard without having to drag the clip first to put the Trim edit in Slide mode?

If the current setting --whether it's slip or slide -- isn't what you want, the only apparent way to change it is to right-click the dynamic trimming icon (next to the Trim edit icon), then select the other alternative.

After that, you can trim from the keyboard without further mousing, until you want to change the mode again. At one point I think "s" toggled between slip/slide but, if so, no longer.

We should get that fixed.

Having to use the mouse defeats the purpose of keyboard based editing.

**Actually looks like S does do the trick.

Are there any videos that demonstrate this "Dynamic Trim Mode"? I'm not seeing any, and I don't understand how it works. Read the manual on it, but would like to see it in action.

A toggle would be better, but you can assign shortcuts to both slide and slip.

You were actually right, once in Trim mode, S toggles back and forth, so that's really helpful.

Just still unclear how this "Dynamic Trim Mode" works...

Doesn't toggle for me (Windows; I think you're Mac?), and it's not listed as toggle shortcut. Far as I can see, the only way to do it is to assign each function a different shortcut. Or the right-click thing.

Dynamic trim is a way of cutting on the fly, as the clip plays. If you can work at full speed (rather than slow motion), you can access dynamic trim in standard mode. It's in the manual.

John Paines wrote: At one point I think "s" toggled between slip/slide but, if so, no longer.

I really can't see this with either the default or custom hotkeys. S (or whatever hotkey you assign to Trim > Toggle Slip/Slide Mode menu) should still work. Further, this hotkey can be explicitly overridden in the keyboard module and it still works.

Could I know more about your keyboard assignment? If it is a preset, the name of the preset... and if custom-configured, a copy of your keyboard assignments exported, and some info on how and when it was created/imported etc.

Shrinivas Ramani wrote:
I really can't see this with either the default or custom hotkeys. S (or whatever hotkey you assign to Trim > Toggle Slip/Slide Mode menu) should still work. Further, this hotkey can be explicitly overridden in the keyboard module and it still works.

Could I know more about your keyboard assignment? If it is a preset, the name of the preset... and if custom-configured, a copy of your keyboard assignments exported, and some info on how and when it was created/imported etc.

Yes, the issue was evidently a custom preset created with an earlier version, perhaps v12, I don't remember. With a new user custom preset based on the Davinci template, "s" now toggles as expected between slip/slide.