Moving partial movie

hbwerner wrote on 7/27/2004, 9:14 AM

I have a section of a movie edited but want to exclude it from the present production and put it in a new production. I know I can render it in AVI and open it in another production, but I want to keep the various elements, overlays, audio envelopes, so I can continue to edit it in the new production. I tried to copy it and open it there, but it didn't take.

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 7/27/2004, 11:15 AM

MS3 should allow you to copy from one project to another.

Previous versions, including Video Factory, do not.

hbwerner wrote on 7/27/2004, 12:06 PM

I just tried it again and when I went to the new project, nothing showed up under EDIT to paste (paste was dimmed out). I did a highlight of the of portion I wanted to transfer, and did a Copy under Edit, and I was able to paste within the same production but not a new one. I am up to SB version 3.0b.

artone wrote on 7/27/2004, 1:08 PM

Hello, try grouping the events you want to copy and then open another instance of Moviestudio. you should be able to paste your events.

jimmyz wrote on 7/27/2004, 2:51 PM

Hold contral and highlight what you want to copy right click copy
Go to other open screenblast and put mouse pointer on timeline right click then paste. It works, I had the same question and I still don't know if I was doing something wrong but this works.
Good luck

gogiants wrote on 7/27/2004, 4:47 PM

You might also do a Save As... of the project and rename the project. Since all Movie Studio does is save pointers into the various media files, you're not doing anything other than copying a very small project file.

This might be preferable since chances are once you start working on the "pasted" version you're going to remember something else you need from the original project!

hbwerner wrote on 7/28/2004, 4:39 AM

OK it works now. The trick seems to be in opening a second copy of MovieStudio and dong the paste. If I just try to open a new project in the MS with my original project, it won't acknowledge a paste. Thanks for you help. Incidently, jimmyz, when I right click on the original section to copy, I don't get a copy option like you do - I have to go to edit-copy. Go figure.
Bryan

hbwerner wrote on 7/29/2004, 7:45 AM

WHoops everything worked except that text was lost. The text boxes were there, but the text from them did not carry over. I can reconstruct, but a couple of them had carefully positioned arrows with the text that moved with the video, and will take time to reconstruct. Any suggestions?

SonySCS wrote on 7/29/2004, 8:23 AM

Generated media (text and backdrops) does not copy any changes you made; i.e. text. At least, I can't figure out how.

Is your text static? No movement from beginning to end, simple background? I was able to save stationary text as a snapshot, move that to the new project and chroma key the background out. You could chromakey the text out, or mask what you need to.

To make the snapshot, click the save icon in the Video window. Searching snapshot in the Help will give more info.

I hope this helps,

Suzan

artone wrote on 7/29/2004, 9:23 AM

Hello, i think your best bet would be to do as gogiant suggested and do a 'save as' and take away the events you don't want. and your text will be there.