Creating subclips from timeline

DWhitevidman wrote on 8/23/2010, 6:56 PM

I'm on my 4th cage fight production.

My first challenge was making a stand from which to shoot and yet keep it minimal so as to not block the audience, custom built a simple 3 leg stand.

My current question relates to how I edit the fight. I put all the clips in order on the timeline and then trim what little excess there is, it's shot pretty close to how it's going to be viewed. As I'm trimming each clip I watch them for highlights I want to use in the intro. I simply put a marker at each point I'm interested in, then when I'm at the end, having edited and viewed each fight, usually totaling 15, I go back to the beginning and view each marker I inserted.

I'm not sure what's the simplest way to then copy a few seconds of each clip to paste into my beginning intro. In the past I place a cut where I want the new clip to start, then a cut at the end, and then copy what's in between. It is simple and quick but I don't care for all the cuts I end up with when I'm done, it just looks kind of sloppy with all the cut points in the main clips, although it doesn't usually cause any problems as this is the last step in my editing the video.

I've read the trimmer and subclip section, but I'm not experienced in using the trimmer. Seems like when I tried a while back something just seemed a bit cumbersome.

Any suggestions?
Thanks

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xberk wrote on 8/23/2010, 9:07 PM

Unless I don't understand what you want, you don't need to do any cuts to create your intro clips. Just drag a selection of the area you want for your clip, do a copy (ctrl+c) and then paste that where you want it (ctrl+v) .. very fast and no cuts on the timeline to do it.

DWhitevidman wrote on 8/24/2010, 5:38 AM

That's exactly what I wanted. I had tried that in the past but it didn't work because I was trying to click and highlight on the clip. Once you suggested it I tried the same thing and it moves the clip on the timeline. Then I realized I had to click and drag above the clip instead.

Thanks, thanks a bunch.

john_dennis wrote on 8/24/2010, 11:19 PM

You might consider assigning regions to the areas that you want to copy to the beginning.

Select the area that you want to be reused.

While selected right-click and Insert Region or just strike "r" on the keyboard.

Give the region a descriptive name if it will help you remember why you chose to use it.

Right-click on the green tab and chose "select region"

Control-C to copy (this method selects all the tracks on the timeline if you have more than one.)

Move to the area where you want to reuse the material

Control-V to paste.

I'm sure I haven't exhausted all the reasons that you might use a region, but this method makes for tidy housekeeping.

Allegretto wrote on 8/25/2010, 4:11 AM

Use the trimmer to assign and name regions as john_dennis suggested, and save them by clicking the floppy disk icon in the trimmer toolbar. These will also show up as media level regions when you load the media into the timeline. You can promote these media level marker to the project level using the Promote Media Markers script in Tools -> Scripting if you find that useful.

To easily add the clip highlights to your project that you've previously marked as regions, navigate to the folder containing your media using the Vegas explorer. Set the Views dropdown in the explorer so that Regions is checked. When you click on a media file that you have marked, you'll see the regions listed. Click on a region name and drag it to the timeline to add it to your project.

DWhitevidman wrote on 8/25/2010, 11:51 AM

Thanks for the alternate methods. I'll consider them on my next fight video, as I wrapped up the one I was working on last night.