Ok, dumb one - replace single frame

kdenninger wrote on 11/1/2003, 10:02 AM
I did this just the other day, and now I can't reproduce it! It has to be a brain fade on my part.

Here's what I am trying to do.

I have a video file (DV capture) that has some thoughless person who fired a flash during a performance. I want to remove that frame, and replace it with the one next to it - effectively, a slice/replace functinon (copy/paste)

I must be in the wrong cursor mode or something; I can zoom into the frame ok, but I can't select just the single frame - when I click I get the entire timeline.

I did this once before, and it "just worked" - what am I missing?

(I do not want to disturb the linked audio track - just the video.....)

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 11/1/2003, 10:22 AM
First disable the preview on external monitor switch if you have that set above the preview window. Now position your cusor at the frame you want to copy so it appears in the preview window. Click the floppy icon and you'll get a snapshot. It should appear in the media bin.

That's what you asked, but not what I would do.

Instead.... Zoom in on the timeline. Usually 2-3 clicks is plenty. Split at the frame just before the annoying flash. Split again just after. If the source has embedded audio right click on the audio track, then Group then remove from. The annoying flash is now isolated. Delete it.

Now go to the portion that was left of the flash. While holding down the Ctril key stretch the edge until it rejoints the portion of vid after the flash. Since were only talking a second or so. the stretching of the event to the left won't be noticable if from a long run of video. In other words if you split like this and the leftmost portion runs say 15 minutes, stretching it a second or so shouldn't hurt. If you have a sync problem you'll need to isolate a smaller area and fade it in that way. I do this trick all the time and never loose sync. It boils down to where you stretch the event.
GaryKleiner wrote on 11/1/2003, 10:54 AM
Not sure about your problem with selecting, but what I would do would be to zoom way in and split the event at the bad frame and again athe the next frame.

Then delete the bad frame and Ctrl/drag the adjacent frame to fill the gap.

Gary
kdenninger wrote on 11/1/2003, 6:05 PM
Ok, I got it. What I had missed was the CTRL key.... like I said - duh :)

Thanks.....