Newbie Question - Joining Clips in Edit?

Springer · Post by **Springer** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:34 am

I just started using the trial version of VS8. I shot a video of my kid's holiday show at pre-school. I have brought a 20 min. clip into VS8, gone to the edit tab and split off several short clips and placed them in the timeline. I have edited out some unwanted video. Before further editing, I think I would like to re-join some of the clips. My logic is that by combining two clips into one, I could reduce the number of clips I have to deal with in the timeline.

Could someone please tell me how I can combine two clips into one in VS8? Or, if I shouldn't want to do this, why not?

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:22 am

You can't join them in the timeline. If you want to create a single file with all the assets in your project, you will need to go to the Share tab and output to a new video file.

rwindeyer · Post by **rwindeyer** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:03 am

Just to add to what THoff said (which is quite correct) - it doesn't matter at all how many clips you have in the timeline. All this does is serve as a reference for VS8, that you want THIS clip, THAT clip, half of THIS clip, etc etc etc. I have had over a hundred clips in various projects.
When you are happy with the final result just go to SHARE - CREATE VIDEO FILE. VS8 will pull the data from all the selected places and make one contiguous file for you.

Springer · Post by **Springer** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 12:54 pm

OK. Thanks to you both for your help.