Newbie needs a steer

Arfer wrote on 11/29/2010, 10:23 AM

Movie film taken by my father was put onto VHS tape that I have imported to my PC.

Now being the proud possessor of Vegas 10 for 48 hours, I would like to "Re-edit" what my father did 60 years ago by sticking celluloid bits into one film!

QUESTION

How can I fragment the 20 minute file back into its constituent clips, prior to re-editing in Vegas 10?

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 11/29/2010, 10:37 AM

Put your Vegas cursor at the desired split point (it helps to expand the timeline), and press "S". That's it.

jetdv wrote on 11/29/2010, 11:41 AM

Are you saying that you captured the footage and it broke it up into 20 minute chunks? Are they 4 Gig each? If yes, it sounds like you captured to a drive formatted as FAT32. Instead, you need the drive formatted as NTFS. NTFS can hold files larger than 4 gig in size.

Arfer wrote on 11/29/2010, 3:00 PM

The whole film is 20 minutes long. I hoped to break it into the 20sec individual shots for adding effects, removing odd bits etc before reassembling.

BobWard wrote on 11/29/2010, 3:41 PM

Then do what musicvid recommended. Just split it up into however many segments (events) that you want. Then you can edit each event separately.

MSmart wrote on 11/29/2010, 6:58 PM

To clarify, which version do you have exactly? Vegas Pro 10 or Vegas Moive Studio HD 10?

+1 on splitting.

Being new, you may want to go through the Help > Show Me How... tutorials. When you're stumped, submit your questions here.

Kimberly wrote on 11/29/2010, 7:46 PM

Hello and Welcome to the Forum!

If you haven't already figured out how to split your footage, here are a couple more hints.

Open a new project in Movie Studio. You should see an Explorer window to the mid-left of your screen (at least that is where my windows are). If you cannot see this window, go to the Main Menu and select View. Down in the list you will see a bunch of options, one of which is Explorer. Make sure this box is checked. Then you should see the Explorer window.

Use this Explorer just like you would use your Windows Explorer. Find your clip and double click it to add it to the timeline. I realize you want to split it into smaller chunks, but we need to add it to te timeline before we can follow Musicvid's advice.

Now click on the timeline. It helps to have your cursor somewhere on your clip, but it is not required. If you have a mouse with a wheel, spin the wheel and watch the timeline expand or contract. Expand the timeline so the clip becomes larger in appearance. If you don't have a wheel mouse, you can expand the timeline by selecting the plus ( + ) symbol to the far right of the timeling.

Expand the clip until you can zero in on the parts where you want to create a split. As Musicvid indicated, place your cursor where you want a split and hit the "S" key.

You can have as many or as few splits as you need. You can move the clips around, and delete pieces. If you say oops, I deleted something I want, no worries. Place your cursor on the nearest clip, click to lock, and drag the clip to expand it back to the point where you have the part that you deleted.

You probably already know this, but Vegas and Vegas Movie Studio is a non-destructive NLE, meaning you are not changing your footage. So you can experiment and undo without worrying about losing your footage.

There is so much more you can do, but hopefully this is enough to get you started.

When you have a chance, be sure to check out these tutorials on the Vegas website:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/support/trainingvids.asp?prod=moviestudio

Also here is a good book and DVD to help get you started:

http://store.vasst.com/store/sony-vegas-products.aspx

Good luck with your project. Be sure to post again if you get stuck.

Kimberly

Arfer wrote on 11/30/2010, 3:09 AM

Thanks for this.

Should keep me busy for a while...............

amendegw wrote on 11/30/2010, 3:12 AM

Kimberly,

Good job of posting advice based upon a newbie's prespective. Here's a hint that may help your postings. You can post clickable links by postings as follows:

[link=http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/support/trainingvids.asp?prod=moviestudio] --> http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/support/trainingvids.asp?prod=moviestudio

[link=http://store.vasst.com/store/sony-vegas-products.aspx] --> http://store.vasst.com/store/sony-vegas-products.aspx

More Information can be found in the sticky: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=521500&Replies=0

...Jerry

Kimberly wrote on 11/30/2010, 6:11 AM

Jerry:

Thanks. I always wondered about that but never got around to asking!

Kimberly

MSmart wrote on 11/30/2010, 8:03 PM

I used to be bothered by non-clickable links, but not since I installed this Firefox Extension - Linkification.

I add the code to make my links clickable but now I don't have to worry about it when others don't.

musicvid10 wrote on 11/30/2010, 8:36 PM

"Newbie needs a steer"
Oldie needs a heifer.

(Before anyone takes offense, I am totally kidding!)

TOG62 wrote on 12/1/2010, 1:46 AM

I used to be bothered by non-clickable links, but not since I installed this Firefox Extension - Linkification.

Thanks. Nice add-on. I hadn't heard of it before.

amendegw wrote on 12/1/2010, 3:35 AM

Here's another forum posting aid: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=522923

...Jerry

Edit: Hmmm... the link in the above thread doesn't appear to work, but the tool is working for me - will research and repost later.

amendegw wrote on 12/1/2010, 5:18 AM

Okay, you can try this - no guaranties. Procedure is for Internet Explorer.

1) Create a new favorite - Name it "Forum Preview Tool"
2) Copy the following to your clipboard (do NOT copy the text "Code Block:"):

javascript:(function(){var h=document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0],e;e=document.createElement('script');e.type='text/javascript';e.src='http://madison.thewikies.com/sonyforumpreview/bookmark.js';h.appendChild(e);e=document.createElement('link');e.type='text/css';e.rel='stylesheet';e.href='http://madison.thewikies.com/sonyforumpreview/bookmark.css';e.media='screen';h.appendChild(e);}());

3) Right Click the Favorite created in step 1) and paste the javascript into the "URL" textblock. Then save this change.
4) Reply to a message in the Sony Forums
5) Once you get the posting panel, click on the newly created favorite.
6) Enjoy! And thanks to Jonathan Neal!

...Jerry