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Steve Grisetti wrote on 11/28/2011, 7:04 AM
Once you've imported it into the Project Media panel, you can open it in the Trimmer window, trim it and save the trimmed sections as Sub-clips.

But this doesn't actually cut the large clip into smaller clips. Video doesn't work that way. Sub-clips are just pre-trimmed clips.

To create smaller clips on your hard drive, you'll need to put each Sub-clip on your timeline and use Make Movie to save each segment as a new DV-AVI.
roberto999 wrote on 11/28/2011, 7:44 AM
Hi Steve, thanks for the quick response. Does putting each section into the timeline and then rendering into a DV-AVI reduce the quality? Thanks, Rob
Steve Grisetti wrote on 11/28/2011, 8:25 AM
If you're putting DV-AVIs into a project set up for DV video and you're outputting DV-AVIs and you've added no effects (other than trimming the video) the results should be virtually identical. The video data will just be transferred through the program to the output file.
Bob Decker wrote on 11/28/2011, 1:26 PM
To make it easy to work with the sections, you don't have to necessarily split the file. You can create regions and render each region seperately.
To do this, place the cursor/playhead at the beginning of where you want to start your render. Place your mouse cursor ABOVE the playhead and drag it to where you want it to end. You should see a blue line above your timeline.
Press "R" on your keyboard. This creates the loop region. When you render, make sure you have the option checked to "Render Loop Region Only". You may have to scroll down to see it.
If you already know this, that is well and good. I could have used this at one point and didn't know to do it, so I wanted to share this on this thread.

Bob
Chienworks wrote on 11/28/2011, 2:35 PM
Not just "virtually identical", but actually identical.

Of course, Roberto didn't specify which kind of AVI file he has.