can't combine clips in a single track

krinshaw876 wrote on 10/27/2002, 7:27 PM

Hi everyone,
I'm having a very annoying problem. I'm hoping that I'm just missing something and that there's an easy way to do what I want to do. Let me explain: say I have a single video track that I am cutting frames out of (throughout the track, not just at the ends)...so each time I delete a frame or two, the whole track splits into multiple pieces.

What I'm trying to do is to re-combine the video track into a continuous stream. I've tried the "group" command while "shift-clicking" the video pieces, but after I work on another track (i.e. click another track to edit), when I go back to the first video track, it is broken into parts again! So am I missing something here, or is this not possible?

Thanks!

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FadeToBlack wrote on 10/27/2002, 8:08 PM

krinshaw876 wrote on 10/27/2002, 8:34 PM

hmm....OK Thanks for the advice :) I'm going to have to sit and digest your message for a few minutes, but I'm sure I'll find it helpful. I'll post again once I've given your advice a shot. Thanks again!

Tyler.Durden wrote on 10/27/2002, 8:48 PM

Hi John,

Another thing you might try:

After you have one track edited, you could select all the events in the track (with your shift-click), and right-click to select Switches>Lock. This should help keep them from getting bumped when you edit another track.

Depending on how you select events and use split, you may split other tracks, so locking may help.

HTH, MPH

krinshaw876 wrote on 10/27/2002, 9:03 PM

Hi Marty :) Thanks for the added advice....Unfortunately though I still cannot get the separate pieces of the track to stay together! Ripple edit is selected, quantisize to frames is selected... when I crop out the bad frames from the track the 2 pieces do -not- automatically connect together (it seemed like they should "automatically" connect from the first reply to the thread?) I -am- really new at the video editing game, so I could still be missing something very obvious.

Locking the pieces -did- help, but I need the track to remain moveable so that I can add another clip to the front of the same track (and then adjust accordingly). I really think I must be missing something obvious here... The track pieces snap together and -temporarily- group toegether, but I can't seem to get the video pieces into one final solid stream. Any other ideas?

Tyler.Durden wrote on 10/27/2002, 9:39 PM

Hi John, here's more thoughts...

You might try taking the segments you want to use and put them in a new track on the top.

Some folks use lower tracks like "bins", splitting sections and deleting unwanted material... then they drag the good-stuff up to the top track(s).

Another way: some folks open a clip in the Trimmer, and create "regions" to mark the good material that they can drag or paste into the Timeline.

If you like to edit in the timeline, you can split events (like a long take) and delete the unwanted sections by double-clicking in the sections and cut/delete with ripple active. If you double-click a gap and cut/delete you may ripple all tracks.

Cutting/deleting in ripple mode can ripple just the track you are working in, or ripple across tracks; depending on: if you double-click and cut just an event (ripples track), or using the loop-selector to highlight a range of time and select all events (Ctrl-A), then delete (ripples across tracks), or no events (Shift-Ctrl-A) then cut/delete (ripples across tracks and ripples markers and regions).

Grouping often helps, but if you accidentally group more than you expect, it can throw you a curve. You might select-all (Ctrl-a) and ungroup before you use group again, to make sure you group only what you need.

HTH, MPH

FadeToBlack wrote on 10/27/2002, 10:50 PM

sqblz wrote on 10/28/2002, 6:21 AM

I don't think that's what krinshaw876 wants. He talks about a "solid" stream.
A while ago I filmed some show that once in a while had someone photographying it. Of course, the flash was annoying, so I decided to correct it.
Because the flash is so fast, it only affected one frame at a time. I located the affected frames, one at a time, and ripple deleted them. My final product was a succession of splitted segments of the original clip, all sequentially to each other.
Then ... I rendered to a new track. It was very quick and left me with only *one* clip. And to my eyes it was lossless.
krinshaw876, is this what you're looking for ?