Media Composer 3.0.5 / Select Right

Splice Here by Steve Cohen

Media Composer version 3.0.5 was released this week and, along with some key bug fixes, it offers a couple of important new features.

First and foremost, it allows you to select all clips to the right or left of the blue cursor, or all clips between marks. This makes it trivially easy to open up space in the middle of a complex, overlapped timeline. Just select all tracks, hit the new “select right” button and drag everything to the right. Voila, you’ve got a nice empty space in your timeline, without cutting up any clips or doing any cleanup work. Final Cut has had a similar feature for a long time, but it’s a valuable and nicely implemented addition to the MC. read more...