save and TRIM hdv?

seanfl wrote on 10/23/2005, 2:15 AM
I know there's much talk about being able to split / edit hdv files, etc. That aside, when I finish a project, I usually save it with the trim media selected and get a nice, much smaller directory with all the files I'd need to restore should I need to work on a project again. It seems if I'm using HDV footage, the trim button is useless...am I correct?

even if Sony could give us a very sloppy trim with many seconds on each side (to account for long gob's and vob's and whatever all that stuff means)...that would sure save me tons of space when archiving. Is there anything else to try? Right now I have tons of 4 gig files, and often I'm only using a couple minutes from any one of them...

thanks! Sean

Comments

DGrob wrote on 10/23/2005, 6:36 AM
Good question. I just saved and trimmed a 40 GB Project File (About 1 hour and 40 minutes of Z1 footage -- 1920x1080i HDV captured and used via Cineform Connect / Codec) of a 5 minute promo video. I wound up with 13.7 GBs.

I have no idea how the process would handle native m2t files. I am also going to look into how my "embedded" veg files were handled. I've taken to constructing specific program elements (such as complex lower third subtitles) as seperate vegs. I didn't bother to render them out for the save, so I wonder how much got sent over.

Darryl
Spot|DSE wrote on 10/23/2005, 11:31 AM
No, the trim button works the same. You can add head and tail just like anything else, unless you're working in a nested project. To my knowledge, only Ultimate S 2.0 can save/trim nested veg files properly.

If the Save As isn't working properly, then there must be something else going on.
Keep in mind that using Save As doesn't delete the media, it only saves it to a new directory that you specify, and then you need to delete the remainder yourself.
DGrob wrote on 10/23/2005, 5:04 PM
FWIW: my saved and trimmed project include a number of animated lower thirds built w UltimateS 2.0, Sony Generated media, and a png logo. All transfered over into the trimmed project folder without a problem, their individual vegs open seemlessly from within the new, trimmed folder. There were, of course, no heads or tails.

DSE: thanks for the reminder re cleanup. What a pleasure to go back and clean out 40 GBs from my video drive. Now all I have to do is burn a couple of DL Data DVDS and I'm . . . on to the next!

Darryl