Improvements for 'Segments to export'

[Wiethoofd]

The list of actions and shortcuts/interactions on a segment in the Segments to export is currently very limited.

Currently you can only 'swap' segments you've created in the list of Segments to export, which gets quite frustrating if you created a new segment early in the file after creating a bunch that will come before and after it.

I have had faster and more successful swaps with naming my segments and using notepad++ to reorder the lines in the .csv and reloading the project file or the video in LLC than using the current 'reorder' swapping of segments.

There are barely any useful keyboard or mouse interactions with the created segments, a left-click selects the segment, which can then be deleted, swapped in order or renamed with the buttons at the bottom.

A possible nice addition would be a right-click menu and a (configurable) double-click action on a single segment.

• Single or double click could jump the timeline to the in-point of the segment
• Double click could play-back just the segment, exact in and out points and pause after playback Play only current segment #574
• Dragging and dropping to reorder (see sortable.js Demo)
• Reorder multiple segments change multiple selected segment order #2227
• Possible modifier key support for multi-select, swap or default to simple reordering
• Clear all segments
  • perhaps with the drag-drop multiselect and delete hotkey - https://github.com/valerybugakov/react-selectable-fast ?
• Right-click menu with various options:
  • Export single segment (Feature request: export only a particular segment #358) (with various output options)
  • Move segment up/down
  • Jump to in-/out-point
  • Label segment (same as currently when selecting and clicking the label button at the bottom)
  • Delete segment (with confirmation step that can be disabled in the settings)
• Preview all segments button at the bottom (Preview playback actual exported cuts #1887)
• Overlap error (from Segment panel and timeline improvements #432)
  When segments overlap, there is this error: "Make sure you have no overlapping segments." in the segments panel and then the segments can't be seen in panel, and the segment remove button can't be used to cancel a segment e.g. that was started at the wrong place. The overlapping segments could be highlighted in the panel to show there's a problem.
• segment details could be editable in the panel - e.g. one can adjust the start/end, increase/decrease duration by a second etc (from Segment panel and timeline improvements #432)

[dquinton]

Good ideas!
I like the jump to start point in timeline - this could also be click on segment (panel or timeline) and a hotkeys such as < for start, and > for end.

Reordering would be good with up/down buttons at panel side (not by multiple right click menus)

Preview segments would be good, with an indication on timeline of position in playback.

[RobCrossRC]

I agree these are good suggestions, the jump to start of timeline is one that would be of great use to me, Ctrl + Home is a standard Windows command to do this in many programs.

[mifi]

next version will have a lot of this implemented!