combining two events after splitting them

videoguy wrote on 9/17/2002, 3:29 PM
I have a clip that I split into two seperate clips and now I would like to join them back together. How do I go about doing that. I know that I can group them together. Is that how you are supposed to do it. If so that doesn't seem to put it back to the original state that it was in. Let me know.

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jetdv wrote on 9/17/2002, 3:40 PM
I can think of at least 3 ways:

1) UNDO - If you have just done the split, and haven't done a lot of additional editing, then UNDO will remove the split.

2) Delete the second clip and expand the first clip back out to the full length.

3) Render that section and then use the rendered clip.
stateofgracie wrote on 9/17/2002, 4:56 PM
I would not rerender, as this messes with the data. If you've done other things after the split, undo is not an option. This leaves you with deleting one of the clips and expanding the other. However, this can be a pain if you want to keep the start and end points and fades of the two-clip section. You have to re-set the event length and fade at one end. Don't know if there is a good way to improve this in the user interface though.
However, I would personally love a 'join' function that makes a single event out of two adjacent events that reference the same source file. It would make the new event the length of the two events, keeping the fades at the beginning of the first clip and the end of the second clip. The contents of the new event would be a continuation of the first event, so that the part of the new event that used to be the first of the original events is unchanged. Thus, if you follow a split of an event by a join, you're back at where you started. If you have two events that reference the source file at completely different points, the results may not always be useful, but I can definitely imagine situations where they would.
salad wrote on 9/17/2002, 6:51 PM
Yeah, but if you put your cursor "at one end" where the Xfade ends, and with snapping enabled, and CLICK(gently), then hit the M key, then hit ENTER....You now have a mrker where that Xfade ends. Then click on THAT half of the split clip, delete it, then you drag the end of the OTHER clip out to the marker...delete marker.

Not saying that a join feature isn't a good idea though!
Tyler.Durden wrote on 9/17/2002, 7:01 PM
The "join" feature has been around for awhile... even before NLEs. A nice feature when you get it.

FWIW,

You might also try clicking on the second-event after splitting, then using ctrl-alt-arrow right twice to park the cursor at the end of the transition. Then hit delete to kill the second-half and drag the edge of the first to the cursor. Not "one button", but fast nonetheless.

And as usual, much easier to do than to describe.

HTH, MPH
salad wrote on 9/17/2002, 7:39 PM
Very nice!!