Am I suffering from pre-conceived notion(s) about editing?

wildbill001 wrote on 12/29/2004, 1:10 PM
Coming from the film-editing world (many years ago). You would search through your film clipping out the segments you wanted and putting them aside. Then you would tape/paste them together and have your movie.

In the Movie Studio v4 world, I can "cut" (or is it split?) my video into events. I can then delete them, move them around, etc. But is there a way to save them, into their own file, for use later? I have lots of footage of the kids/grandkids that I want to put together into an anthology. There are *lots* of video files that I will be cutting from and the timeline quickly gets cluttered.

So, should I load in the media file I want a segment from, split out the event (which may only be a few minutes), delete the rest of the media file, then save that event into its own AVI file?

Any suggestions, directions to websites, advice welcome.

Bill W

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Chienworks wrote on 12/29/2004, 1:31 PM
With Movie Studio / Vegas Studio, rendering small sections to new files is probably the most direct method to do what you want to accomplish. However, there's no need to delete the rest of the media from the timeline. Highlight the section you want to save and render to a new DV avi file with the box "Render loop region only" checked. This will render only the highlighted section. It's not even necessary to split the original file first, although you may if you wish.
Mr_Christopher wrote on 12/29/2004, 1:33 PM
"So, should I load in the media file I want a segment from, split out the event (which may only be a few minutes), delete the rest of the media file, then save that event into its own AVI file?"

Yes.

But there are a few thinsg worth considering. Is the new AVI file to burn a DVD or just another source file? If it is for another source file you could end up with a lot of additional files that make organization a challenge. And what you'd have then are multiple copies of the same (or similar) file(s), only with edits.

For example you might start with:

bobby's_1st_brithday.avi (original)

And end up with:

bobby's_1st_brithday.avi (original)
bobyb's_1st_birthday_blowing_out_candles.avi
bobby's_1st_brithday_kids_singing.avi
bobby's_1st_brithday_opening_presents.avi
bobby's_1st_brithday_grandma_hugging.avi

I'd prefer to have the full master file (bobby's_1st_brithday.avi) and edit from within my project and not have to keep up with all these edited versions of the same source file, but this is my own preference and not a technical answer.

You might find file management is easier when you keep the source file intact and simply edit out the parts you don't want in any given project you create. But that is ONLY my preference.

I hope this makes sense...

Chris
wildbill001 wrote on 12/29/2004, 3:17 PM
"Highlight the section you want to save and render to a new DV avi file with the box "Render loop region only" checked."

Great ! That is just what I was looking for.

Bill W