DEleting Frames

Spartan wrote on 1/18/2005, 12:40 PM
Guys,

Sorry this is such a noob question but this is my first day with Vegas 5. I have loaded an avi file as a single event. It has lots of frames that I simply want to delete to leave the remainder. Ive been trying to select start and end frames and delete whats between but with no joy. Can someone be so kind as to tell me how to go about it?

Thanks,

Mike

Comments

Lili wrote on 1/18/2005, 12:49 PM
Hi Mike,
I'm failry new to Vegas as well, but at least I can tell you how I delete unwanted frames. I just scrub along the timeline until I get to a point I want to delete and i hit the S key to split. Then I go to the end of the section I want to delete and hit split again. I then select the section in between the 2 splits and hit the DELETE key, and voila, it's gone.
If you have your ripple thingy on when you do this, the gap will be gone. If not, then select the gap and hit DELETE and your events will join up.
Hope that's clear enough.
Have fun with Vegas.
Chienworks wrote on 1/18/2005, 12:52 PM
You can work even simpler than that. Drag the cursor from the beginning to the end of the part you want to delete. This will highlight it in Blue. Hit the delete key. No splitting necessary. If ripple editing is enabled then the gap will close up automatically.
Spartan wrote on 1/18/2005, 2:28 PM
Many thanks guys. Worked a treat. One last foolish question. Is there a way to adavance each frame one at a time. Mine is jumping about 5 or 6 at a go.
JackW wrote on 1/18/2005, 3:01 PM
Use the up/down arrow keys to zoom in to the single frame level.

JackW
jeff_12_7 wrote on 1/18/2005, 3:06 PM
Also, to go frame by frame, hold down the ALT key while you use your left/right arrows. Instead of skipping 5-6 frames, it will go one at a time.
tadpole wrote on 1/18/2005, 11:11 PM
Also.. if say have one single BIG avi clip.. that you only need a few small parts out of.. - and have drive space concerns..

I take the segments i want - extend the start & end of each one (JUST to be sure) then render the segments on the time line to new avi files..

from there you can delete the original and save a lot of disc space
(be sure to double check everything is ok with the newly created clips b4 deleting though)
Grazie wrote on 1/18/2005, 11:29 PM
Building on Tadpole's space efficiencies, is to use Advance Capture [AdvCap ].

Here you get to review a tape, name the tape & clip, add comments, review prior to committing space to a clip and then sending it off to Batch capture. Oh yes, it will even dump those clips in a Bin ready for delivery. Yes, there are a huge selection of Capture utilities, but now I've got to grips with my own "messiness" in editing and the like I've recently found AdvCap a worthy tool. Be warned - I wouldn't use my "shooting" cammie for this process - all that "hunting" and searching for the INS and OUTS will take a toll on your cammie's mechanism and rollers and heads .. . so I'm told! I use a DV deck for this purpose and it just sits there doing the senseless stuff, while I can do other stuff.

Of course you now have all your "wanted" clips named and compiled in a way that at any time if you need to recapture you've got a Tape name and t/c ready for recapture. I just did some 300 clips from 6 tapes over the past 2 days this way and I'm really glad I did it this way.

Also don't forget the other major tool the Trimmer!

Yes this has moved on from the initial question, but I guess we are wanting you to have an easier time of using Vegas, and knowing and investigating what this extraordinary package can deliver is part of the learning curve and skills acquisition process.

Good luck . . and REALLY good to hear from you,

Grazie