Trimming Zoom Cloud Recordings
How many of you have actually used the "trim" function of Zoom Cloud Recordings? I've looked at all the support docs I can find (just this one!) and apparently everything you do requires a mouse to click or drag. Editing a 2 hour recording to get the just the right start and end points is virtually impossible. There's no reason in today's environment that some sort of keyboard-based editing commands can't be implemented to ease the pain of getting it just right.
I've made a feature request/low priority support ticket asking for the following as a bare minimum:
- SPACE BAR for start and stop playing (Note: I've subsequently seen this work sporadically, but not consistently)
- Letter I to mark the "In" point (the start of the viewable portion)
- Letter O to mark the "Out" point (the end of the viewable portion)
- Home to move the playhead to the current In point
- End to move the playhead to the current Out point.
- A time code display showing the current playhead point AT ALL TIMES.
(I did find out through trial and error that pressing the left-right arrow keys will move the playhead 10 seconds backward or forward.)
Anyone else have other suggestions? These would make a great start, and make me very happy. Something any Zoom user can make use of... it doesn't have to be fancy.
I don't expect a full implementation of Premiere Pro, Final Cut, or Davinci Resolve, but prepping the recordings from 5 days of webinars has been SO time-consuming and painful.
My workflow will mostly continue to be downloading files and editing in Premiere Pro, but I would like the client to have a reasonable "interim version" to watch... one that doesn't give me a headache just trying to trim the pre- and post-roll off.
