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Please, first get familiar working with chapters.


SimpleMovieX is designed to let you watch and annotate a movie using only the keyboard.

Power users often consider that mouse actions are slow and distracting.


Keyboard focus switches automatically:

If Timeline selection strip is red, keyboard actions go to Timeline: for Navigation

If Timeline selection strip is gray, keyboard actions go to Chapter name field: for Annotation


Focus will automatically switch to Chapter when you add a Chapter (with Command-/ for example), and will go back to Timeline when you validate the Chapter name with Enter, or if you don't start typing in 2 seconds.


Just try it and you'll understand how it works.


Example:

1. Start playback

2. When you have something to annotate, do Command-/

3. Start typing text, press enter.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3. Observe how focus switches.

5. Try using navigation keyboard shorcuts: Space bar, Tab, Command - Left arrow, L

6. Learn how to navigate and annotate with keyboard only.


Adjust chapters:

After annotating, you want to adjust the position or name of some chapters.

Just use the Chapters pane to do it.


Usually you annotate a few seconds after the actual event happens. There's a way to shift all chapters by a fixed amount of time:

1. Copy Chapter Markers (in Chapters action menu)


picChaptersShift.jpeg


2. Delete All Chapter Markers

3. Add 5 seconds at the beginning of the movie (for example by copying and pasting the first 5 seconds)

4. Place playhead at beginning of movie 00:00:00.0000

5. Paste Chapter Markers at current time

6. Delete first 5 seconds.


The chapters are now shifted by 5 second.