How do I erase most of my project but keep the beginning?

meshuken · Post by **meshuken** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:15 pm

Hello, I have a 40 minute project that has multiple clips (sound, overlay, title, etc). I want to keep the first five minutes worth and dump the rest. Is there a way to highlight the clips I want to keep in the project and do a global deleting of the rest? I tried ctrl-a and various shift combinations but cannot get it to work. yes, exporting the project to MPG and then reimporting it and clipping the minutes out is an option, but I would like to maintain the ability to edit the first few minutes.

Thanks

VS10+

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:25 pm

Click on the first clip you want to delete, then shift>click on the last. That will select all those in between. Right click and choose delete.

If you have multiple titles, overlays, music, etc. throughout the 40 minute project, an easier way may be to save that project as is. Then start with a clean timeline and insert that vsp project to your timeline. Now go to the 5 minute mark and use the scissors tool to split your video. Now you can delete the excess 35 minutes and resave your first 5 minutes.

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:25 pm

Yes - but your doing it the wrong way round - use "Select - Shift+Select" (standard windows multi object selection method) to select all the files you want to DELETE - then hit the delete key on your keyboard - save your project.

The windows standard "Ctrl+Select" also works if the objects are not continuous in the timeline

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:28 pm

The windows standard "Ctrl+Select" also works if the objects are not continuous in the timeline

That doesn't work for me. It just selects the next clip I click on without "keeping" the first clip I used Ctrl on. The Shift+Select works fine.

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:31 pm

Ah - yes - doesn't seem to work for me now either in version 10 - I'm sure I've used it in previous versions - OK meshuken forget that bit about "Ctrl+Select" in the timeline - although it does still work with thumbnails in the libraries.

meshuken · Post by **meshuken** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:50 pm

Thanks for the tip, guys. The shift-shift works perfect - it also helped when I "shrank" the view of my project down with the little slider control, i could easily see to erase the 35 minutes of the project I didn't need....

Perfect!

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:06 pm

just for completeness.

to the right of that slider is a magnifiying glass with a + in it - to the right of that again is a little envelope - clicking on the envelope automatically fits the whole project in the timeline.