Editng or managing large avi clips

GeoffEdwards wrote on 3/3/2012, 10:28 AM
Hi
I have copied SVHS to DV tape and i am now ready to use some of the material in my productions. The trouble is some of the clips are 13 GB in size -the whole one hour tape! If I add one of these clips to Project Media ( I am using Vegas 10) but only want a few seconds or so what is the best way of doing that? I could I suppose create my short clip and then create another video track for other short clips to be made from the big clip and then create corresponding video tracks for each of those clips. Or should I be using subclips? Or even spliting the large clip into separate avi files, in which case how would I do that?

thanks for any advice

Geoff

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Steve Mann wrote on 3/3/2012, 11:05 AM
You can make subclips, or since it is DV-AVI you can do a rough-cut and save-as with copy media selected, and you will have a smaller source clip.

Or you can buy a bigger hard disk. That's a whole lot less work. (Microcenter has a sale on a 1.5Tb Seagate drive for $99).
GeoffEdwards wrote on 3/3/2012, 1:59 PM
Thanks Steve

In relation to hard disk space I have bought an Antec hot swap drive caddy to fit to another PC (as suggested by another user of this forum) that I have networked so storage will not be a problem. So I will go with the creating subclips path.

Thanks again

Geoff
johnmeyer wrote on 3/3/2012, 2:19 PM
If I add one of these clips to Project Media ( I am using Vegas 10) but only want a few seconds or so what is the best way of doing that? As you've described your workflow, I don't see why you would need to use subclips. If you just want to edit well, just edit! If you only use just ten seconds from your one hour clip, nothing will be created based on the size of the 13 GB original file.

There are certainly reasons to use subclips (that's why they exist), but I'm not sure from your brief description that you need to take the extra step (and time) of creating them.

I also don't see why hard disk space would have anything to do with the issue.

Now if you want to only archive the footage that you use, and get rid of the rest, then I have some other workflows to suggest, although I wouldn't use subclips for this situation either.