Say I have a clip that is 30 minutes long. Is there an easy way of dividing this into, say, 3 ten minute clips. Or do I need to mark in/out the first division, render a new clip, mark in/out second division, rende new clip, etc?
I'm pretty sure that's what I'll have to do, but I wanted to see if anyone else has some bright ideas.
Dividing Large Video Clips
You don't say which version you have, but look up Smart Trim in your User Manual.
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I do this all the time as a way of splitting up synchronised footage on Vb when the main camera is on Va.
You decide how long your standard clip length is to be (in my case, I use six seconds, but there's no reason it can't be ten minutes). Create a colour clip of that duration on V1 or whatever (colour doesn't matter, just line it up with the start of the clip to be split). Hold down {Ctrl} and drag the colour clip to the right. This makes an identical copy, and if there aren't any clip edges or cues to b*gger up the snap point, it will snap neatly to the rightt of its original.
Click the V1 title to select all the clips on that track (I'm assuming there's only the two colour clips) then repeat the {Ctrl-}drag thing. Now you have four colour clips. Do it again and you have eight. Repeat until the duration of the clip to be split has been covered.
Select the scissors tool and click the clip to be split roughly where each colour clip boundary occurs. Then, go back to the selectio tool and drag the split boundaries so that they snap to the colour clips. You'll need stitch trim switched on for this.
For my work, I just blitz across the split clip, deleting every other clip. Then I delete the colour clip, then tidy up.
If you're wanting to create separate AVIs (say several 15 minute DV AVIs for archiving on DVD-R) you would just delete all but the first clip, go to "create" "video file" and make your first AVI, "undo" to get all the clips back, delete all but the second and so on.
You decide how long your standard clip length is to be (in my case, I use six seconds, but there's no reason it can't be ten minutes). Create a colour clip of that duration on V1 or whatever (colour doesn't matter, just line it up with the start of the clip to be split). Hold down {Ctrl} and drag the colour clip to the right. This makes an identical copy, and if there aren't any clip edges or cues to b*gger up the snap point, it will snap neatly to the rightt of its original.
Click the V1 title to select all the clips on that track (I'm assuming there's only the two colour clips) then repeat the {Ctrl-}drag thing. Now you have four colour clips. Do it again and you have eight. Repeat until the duration of the clip to be split has been covered.
Select the scissors tool and click the clip to be split roughly where each colour clip boundary occurs. Then, go back to the selectio tool and drag the split boundaries so that they snap to the colour clips. You'll need stitch trim switched on for this.
For my work, I just blitz across the split clip, deleting every other clip. Then I delete the colour clip, then tidy up.
If you're wanting to create separate AVIs (say several 15 minute DV AVIs for archiving on DVD-R) you would just delete all but the first clip, go to "create" "video file" and make your first AVI, "undo" to get all the clips back, delete all but the second and so on.
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ando775