help simple editing problem

[arnzip]

i have video studio 7. i have clips on my time line i don't want. they are
between the two yellow bars.

how do i delete them?
will the rest of the movie come together since the part i don't want is in the middle of the movie

thanks
arnzip

[Ken Veal]

Hi,
I have not got VS7 but u should be able to right click on clip then
select delete, the rest of the clips will fall into line
Regards Ken

[Ken Berry]

Yes, you remove the offending files that way, but I am afraid with VS7 you don't have ripple editing (which only came with VS9). So though the remaining clips after the cuts may snap back to the earlier ones, any overlays, titles and audio will not snap back with them, and you will have to adjust these manually.

[Ken Veal]

Hi Arnzip,
Ken B. is correct in everything he wrote (as usual) it would
be best to not add titles, music etc until after you are 100%
happy with all your video then you will not have the problem
of moving everything else back in line,
Regards Ken V

[arnzip]

i tried what you said. it seems the part i don't want seems to be saved as an icon picture. the original is still an icon picture. where is the part i do want?

[Ken Berry]

I am sorry, but I really don't understand. You have your timeline, containing a number of clips, some of which you want, some you don't want. All of these clips will normally have their equivalent icon in the library pane. Deleting clips from the timeline does NOT automatically delete them from the library pane. So of course, your library pane will contain everything you started with, icons you want and icons you now don't want.

But here is where my confusion arises. How many captured clips did you start with -- just one big one, or more than one? If you put a big clip into the timeline, did you then cut it down into smaller files, and, importantly, did you 'Save Trimmed Video'? This would have created separate files on the computer in your default folder, and new icons in the library pane. The idea is that you then delete the part of the original clip you just saved from the timeline, since there it is still part of the original captured video. And you substitute it with the new trimmed video clip by dragging the icon from the library into the timeline. And so on.

If you have not done it this way, then the 'part you want' is still in the original captured clip(s) because it remains in the library, uncut. And it is only the project VSP file which contains information about where you have cut it and edited it.

With VS7 and 8, moreover, you have to be very careful about deleting icons from the library pane before you have completed your project and burned your video to disc. This is because in VS7 and 8, deleting an icon also deletes the original file it represents (there is a warning message which, however, many people ignored). This has been changed in VS9 because too many people were accidentally erasing their original files when all they wanted to do was delete from the library. (Now, we have to press 'Shift' and 'Delete' together to delete the original as well as the icon.)

Hope this helps. But we are not mind readers and don't know exactly what your work method is.