Trimming long clips?

Question

(I should know this but)
When I bring a long clip into the Viewer I cannot perform precise trimming because the Viewer's timeline is hopelessly coarse; slight movement of the mouse makes 30-90 second leaps.
I can drop the clip down into the timeline and zoom way in but that's simply not convenient today, hurts my hangnails and I need a latté.
Suggestions welcome.
Name-calling and RTFM allowed, encouraged even.
bogiesan

Answer 1

I feel your pain. I regularly have to clip about three seconds out of hour-long (and multi-hour-long) source clips.
The habit I've gotten into is to roughly scrub with the mouse to where I want to be — wait. Let me go back.
The habit I've gotten into is to swear long and loud at my producers for not giving me effing timecode numbers for the segments they want to use, then to roughly scrub with the mouse to where I want to be. Then I use the transport controls (J, K and L) to find the second in which I want to mark my in point, then I hold down "K" and mash either "J" or "L" at the same time to shuttle slowly forward or back, until I get to just the frame I want.
And then I repeat for the out point.
And then I hit F9 to insert-edit the clip into my timeline.
And then I decide I'm not happy with those edits after all, so I double-click the in point or out point on my timeline to bring up the trim window, where I use the , (comma) and . (period) keys to shift the edit a frame at a time.
And then I drink. Heavily.