Trimming a video

[el-ghia]

Hey peoples...

Ive just started using videostudio 9 and in general im pretty happy. Just having some problems trimming my video. I actually want to cut sections out of the video.

I worked out how to cut and end off or the beginning off, but how can i just take sections from the middle of the video and keep them?

Oh so confusing!

Thanks guys!

[PeterMilliken]

Personally I use the "scissors" (right beside the Mark-in/Mark-out at the bottom right of the Preview Window). You can "cut" the clip at the point you are viewing. This will allow you to cut a video into neat little clips. Then what I do to create "real" video files of each clip (as opposed to just pointers to the beginning and ending of the clip into the original .avi/.mpg file) by using Clip -> Save Trimmed Video to turn the clip into a real file on the disk.

I generally use this process to define all the clips I choose to include in my movie (at the cost of potentially doubling the amount of hard disk space used!) - anything that didn't make it into an individual clip is probably stuff I don't want to keep i.e. cute shots of the ground as I swing the camera, some lovely shots of the sky etc etc Once I have made individual files of all the pieces I want to keep, I delete the original .avi - these individual clips are what I archive to DVD when I have completed my project. I do this because if you leave the clips as just "pointers" (for want of a better term ) into the original video clip then they must "hang around" in your library forever - just in case you decide to "redo" a movie one day. By creating individual files of each clip, you can just re-import the video files into the Library when (and if!) you decide to have yet another go at that old project somewhere down the track (after restoring the files from your archive disks of course).

Hope this makes sense,
Peter

[el-ghia]

Thanks! After playing around with the scissors for a bit i got it to work.