Remove small sections from a video - best way?

Gerry-Peters wrote on 5/12/2019, 1:59 PM

I have Movie Studio Plat 13. I'm editing a 26 min down to a 10 min video. I'd like some suggestions and tips on how to better do this. Currently I view the video and when I see a spot I'd like to remove, I hit M for adding a marker at the beginning spot and then add a marker at the end of the edit. I'll usually go back and use ALT-left arrow and ALT-right arrow to tweak the exact edit spot.

I love this ALT arrow feature, which is moving by 1 frame forward or backward, because I can hold the keys down and it plays the video in real time forward or backward. So once I have the markers set, I remove the video inside the markers by first going to the first marker using Control-arrow and then using Control-Shift arrow to go to the 2nd marker while selecting the space in between.

In the timeline I see the selection in between the markers. I then hit Control-X and it deletes the unwanted section. I'm using auto ripple, so it deletes the hole, which is great.

I've been searching for a more direct way to do this and have tried using I (in) and O (out) to set the selection, but when I hit Ctrl-X it usually does nothing, but some times deletes the whole video.

In my audio program it's so easy I just hit F7 (set beginning of selection) and F8 (set end of selection). I can see the timeline selection and when I hit delete with ripple, the section is deleted and the hole is closed.

I know Movie Studio has tons of features and I think I'm just missing something. How can I do this better?

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Eagle Six wrote on 5/19/2019, 7:05 PM

@OhMyGosh yes

EDIT: I miss read your question and apparently thought you meant dragging it to make the event longer, which would make the track longer, unless of course something else was shorten to keep it the same length. My apology for my misleading and incorrect answer. "drag the ends of an event towards it's center" is shortening the event, but it didn't register to be obvious to me at the time for whatever reason!!

@OhMyGosh I just edited my incorrect previous answer. Not sure why my head wasn't screwed down tight, sorry for my was incorrect answer.

OhMyGosh wrote on 5/19/2019, 9:17 PM

Nothing to apologize for Eagle Six, I appreciate the response. It was my fault for not making what I was doing more clear. Sometimes I have large events that I only need a few seconds from and I like to keep them mostly in tact by shortening them by dragging. I was just concerned that I might be creating a monster file to render and use by doing that instead of actually trimming and discarding the extra. Thanks again. Cin

j-v wrote on 5/20/2019, 1:58 AM

@OhMyGosh
Maybe it is good to read this about the program you are working with

Eagle Six wrote on 5/20/2019, 9:50 AM

Nothing to apologize for Eagle Six, I appreciate the response. It was my fault for not making what I was doing more clear. Sometimes I have large events that I only need a few seconds from and I like to keep them mostly in tact by shortening them by dragging. I was just concerned that I might be creating a monster file to render and use by doing that instead of actually trimming and discarding the extra. Thanks again. Cin

Well, it is a bigger thing for me because I really hate misleading and putting wrong information out. The funny thing, at least for me, was when I read the replies after mine I was surprised that others were disagreeing with me! Then when I reread what you had asked and I replied it was clear why they disagreed.

So, we know that Movie Studio (and Vegas Pro) when making cuts is not destructive, so cutting/slicing to edit or simply dragging does not effect the source media.