clogging up the arteries

[lakewud]

Just a quickie, and i hope to get a quick responce in return.

My problem, wanting to offload a lot of footage into my VS10+, about 2.5hours worth, all into bitesize chunks ( ie,a series of thumbnails - with automatically ( it seems on past experiance ) go into the library ) so i can access / edit bits at a time....SO, my problem is...

...once im done with all this footage, edited and all, i dont want it remaining on my computer clogging it up, again in the past had these issues and just could delete everything, would always be a file around somewhere it seemed.

So, in a nutshell, whats the ideal way of loading avi footage into VS , editing it etc, and then erasing it ...is there a better way of loading the footage into VS other than the auto library option...can i simply delete a thumbnail once im done with it and that footage wont be on my computer taking up important space?

Ideas on a postcard..or better still in a reply to this little thread.

Thanks.

[Black Lab]

For the sake of argument let's say your video is of your vacation, so we will use that term.

In VS, from the Edit tab, click on the Library Manager. Click New to create a new library folder called Vacation. Now, from the Gallery drop-down menu select your new Vacation library. Obviously it will be empty.

Now go to the Capture tab and click Capture Video. Click on the Capture Folder icon to navigate to where you want to capture your clips to on your hard drive. Again, for sake of argument we'll say you'll capture to My Documents/My Videos. But first, we'll make another sub-folder called Vacation. So now the captured files will go to My Documents/My Videos/Vacation.

Making sure you still have the Vacation Library open in VS, you can capture away to your Vacation folder on your hard drive. All clips will be captured to the Vacation folder and the corresponding thumbnails will be represented in the Vacation Library.

Now, when all is said and done and you're finished with the video and are ready to clean house you can simply go back to Library Manager and delete the Vacation Library. That will, of course, get rid of the library and the thumbnails, but the actual video clips will still reside in the Vacation folder under My Documents/My Videos. From there, using Windows Explorer you can simply delete the Vacation folder and all it's contents - the clips.

There you have it. Nice and tidy.