VideoStudio 10 : How to save multiple trimmed video?

sbaw2x · Post by **sbaw2x** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:31 am

I trim a lot of clips from imported/inserted video using the multi-trim feature. When I'm done trimming them and the trimmed clips are already in the timeline, do I really need to save each clip individually using the save trimmed clip command? Or is it possible to save all the trimmed clips at one time? It would save me tons of time. Any help will be aappreciated.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:24 am

It depends what you mean by 'save'. If you want to save the trimmed clips as *video* files, then I am afraid it has to be done one by one. However, if you want to save them as a single project, then just go to File > Save As and give the project a meaningful name. Then you can go on editing. Just remember to File > Save regularly. Then when you have finished editing, you go to Share > Create Video File and pick you final format. That will save your edited project as a new video file.

sbaw2x · Post by **sbaw2x** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:24 am

Thank you Mr. Berry. I meant "SAVE" as saving trimmed clips as individual files. I hope that future versions could feature a way to save multiple trimmed clips.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:46 am

Is there any particular reason you want to save them as individual new clips? Video Studio treats them as being new clips, even though they are in effect only "virtual" clips... And most people can perform the full editing and authoring process without making any of the multi-trimmed clips into separate files.

I personally never use multi-trim and create lots of real files from the start. Most of my home video is from either my standard definition mini DV or Digital 8 cameras. The latter transmits video over a firewire connection, and the capture is in DV format, just like a mini DV camera. So with both, I can set Video Studio to Split by Scene during capture. I also use (and prefer) a small freeware program called WinDV which, as its name suggests, only captures DV. It too will split by scene. So that way you have a whole series of real clips from the very start of the editing process.

More recently I have moved into high definition video with a Canon HV20 camera which films in high definition mpeg-2 format. Video Studio cannot 'split by scene' with high def mpeg-2 (though it can split standard def mpeg-2 by scene once all the video is captured). But for that I use another excellent freeware program called HDVSplit, which also splits the video into a series of real files during capture.