How do I cut out a small part of the video ?

[Lisa]

Hello,

Sorry if you've already answered that question before, but :
how do I suppress just a few seconds of the video ?
For some reason, I happened to move the camera downwards and took a view of someone's foot, I want to cut that out, it lasts only a few seconds. But when I click on the cisors, it cuts out the video in half. I only want to take that small part off and go back to the rest of the video.

(Not to bother you again with my sound problems, but somehow I managed to keep the sound of the music lower. However, when I do that it doesn't cover the other sounds (conversations, cars, etc...) so I gave up).

Thanks
Lisa

[Ron P.]

Lisa,

Well to suppress that portion of the video, you have to cut the video, not just in half, but in thirds. That is if the segment with the feet is the only part you want to remove/suppress.

What I would do is this:

1. Go to the frame where the camera tilt starts down. Cut it there.
2. Navigate to the frame after the foot shot. Cut there.
3. Now you have 3 clips, 1=Before foot shot, 2= Foot shot, 3=After foot shot.
4. Highlight #2 (foot shot clip) and delete.

Now you can use a transition between the remaining clips, or just leave it as a hard cut. You could even get creative and throw in a bumper or wipe.

Ron P.

[newboy]

After cutting and removing the section, is it possible to remove the same amount of time from the other tracks. I have a couple of videos amongst slides that have titles and transitions as well as audio tracks. I had to remove some video to get the finished size down for cd. Removing an item from the video track requires moving and retiming objects on the other tracks.

[Ron P.]

Hi Newboy,

Do you have ripple editing enabled for the other tracks? I suspect you are clipping video in the main track, correct? If so, then with ripple enabled, the clips on the overlay, title, and audio tracks will "ripple" or move to stay aligned with the main clip.

Ron P.

[Lisa]

Thanks, I've finally managed to do this small video. I've cut the part I wanted, had to retime the music track afterwards but no problem.
I would never have done it without the help of this forum.
Just starting another video, may be will come back with questions !
Lisa