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Make the "scrubber" a scissor and allow quick cutting
To be discussed: Is this more efficient? Or should video editors use the keyboard shortcuts?
Personally, I'm not a fan of this hover button solution. Hover elements inadvertently cover other elements and require rules for appearance/disappearance that are often unintuitive to users. Also we'd have two cutting buttons which could be confusing.
As I understand it, this solution intends to allow for quick cutting after you moved the playhead, as the distance between playhead and the hover button is minimal. Unlike the regular cutting button, which tends to be far enough away to significantly increase the time it takes to reach it, resulting in bad UX.
I think keyboard shortcuts are the perfect solution for this. Especially if you work with the editor a lot they should be at least as fast if not faster than the hover button solution. (I also agree that the current keyboard shortcuts are ..unwieldy to say the least, but that's a topic for another issue).
We discussed this as part of the crowdfunding sprint kickoff. We didn't include it in the sprint for the following reasons (@kai-wng-uos, can you check if I remembered everything correctly?):
- We agreed with @Arnei that shortcuts are more helpful for advanced users
- We agreed with @Arnei that having several buttons that do the same thing is not good. We would like to avoid confusion and clutter.
- We see additional complications when editing on tablets (and maybe in the future on mobile devices) since
- …it would need to be a relatively small control element
- …you could easily trigger that element when using the scrubber since you are less precise with your fingers
We left this in the category needing further discussion mainly for two reasons:
- We may want to highlight the keyboard shortcut better (we want to take another look if the current situation is okay)
- We may want to look into implementing something similar to #943 for cutting as well
