deleting individual frames

stepfour wrote on 6/10/2002, 11:54 AM
I had a few tape dropouts in a couple of places on the project I'm working on in VV3. Need to get rid of about 20 frames in groups of 5 or so scattered throughout the project. Right now I am using alt-cursor to move to the frame just before the scrambled frame and making a split and then moving to the frame just after the last bad frame and splitting again, then expanding the track and deleting the bad area. Is there a quicker way to delete individual frames?

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SonyDennis wrote on 6/10/2002, 9:31 PM
I had some bad video once (someone tripped on the tripod <g>) and my fix was to cut out the bad section, split a second or so in on both sides, and then Ctrl+drag the pieces together with a crossfade in the middle. It was not perfect, but much better than the jarring way it was before. I also excised the audio thump separately, and pasted in background noise "room tone" so that it didn't go completely silent.
///d@
Tyler.Durden wrote on 6/10/2002, 10:09 PM
Jeeze folks...

...passing up good opportunities to test the Kuleshov effect... like Tyler Durden in Fight Club?

Whatta waste. ;)

MPH

db wrote on 6/12/2002, 11:54 AM
on another board somebody asked about deleting every other frame .. and then double print the remaining frames ... here's a replay they got ..perhaps somewhere in there is a way ???

Subject: Re: remove every other frame

You can use ... ...a macro,


to achieve both tasks.


To eliminate every other frame with no gaps is pretty simple:

Paste this string into remotekeys as many times as you want to delete frames automatically (10 is not bad):

{KEY.RIGHT}{HOLD.SHIFT}{KEY.RIGHT}{KEY.DELETE}{KEY.RIGHT}{KEY.LEFT}{KEY.LEFT}

Place yer clip in the timeline (ripple on) and let 'er go.



To double frames, paste a different script into remotekeys with ripple off:

{KEY.RIGHT}{HOLD.SHIFT}{KEY.RIGHT}{KEY.DELETE}

This will delete every other frame but leave the holes.

Then, you can place the same clip on the track below, one frame later. The holes will show the clip below, which is at the same frame; effectively doubling the frames.
Tyler.Durden wrote on 6/12/2002, 1:18 PM
Yeah, I posted that (on the Cow) 'cause I'm macro-happy...

(when you're a hammer ya look at the world like it's all nails)

A better solution followed my Cow-post (posted by the sofo crew), which I just posted in the thread re: strobe/still-frame --- undersample for that.

Re: Deleting frames... some of the earlier posts sound good for covering schmutz.

Cheers, MPH