cropping problem!!

grig wrote on 5/7/2003, 1:02 AM
hi,

well, when I use the "save as- copy and trim all media with project-create trimmed copies" function on a long video that I only want to shorten, it creates a video file of the same lenght as the original, but the audio file is correctly shorten!!!

don't know if I'm clear, the video file as been splitted in one audio and one video file, and only the audio file is correctly shorten!!!

any answer to deal with this, please?

peace, grig

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 5/7/2003, 6:53 AM
This function will only trim properly with DV or uncompressed .avi files, and it always separates the audio into it's own .w64 file. Any other types of video files will be copied completely instead of being trimmed.

*sigh*

Maybe this function will improve in the future.
FuTz wrote on 5/7/2003, 8:10 AM
So, if I get it well, we have to render uncompressed then put the result on a timeline *then* save with trimmed media to have everything A-ok?
Another question, as we are here: when people send their VEG files on different sites, how do they make it?
Chienworks wrote on 5/7/2003, 8:23 AM
DV would probably be a better choice than uncompressed. On the other hand. if your original source material was something like MPEG, then the original entire source files are probably smaller than trimmed DV files would be. So if your intention is to save space, this might not help you.
mikkie wrote on 5/7/2003, 11:46 AM
FWIW, from the help file:
"The newly rendered files will match the source files' properties as closely as possible: audio files will be rendered to the Wave64 format, and DV files will be rendered as DV AVI files. Because of the lossy nature of other video formats, non-DV video files will not be trimmed, but will simply be copied to the project folder."

Guess it makes sense if the majority of footage would have to be re-compressed, but that would not always be the case... Perhaps a valid request for the next version, to not exclude non-dv data, instead providing a warning or comment on the dialog that quality may suffer...
grig wrote on 5/8/2003, 2:28 AM
yeah, like in virtualdub, you've got the choice recompress or "direct stream copy"!!!