Trimmer

Leon_S wrote on 11/14/2005, 2:43 PM

Hello:

I wish Sony had created an Adobe-like tutorial: with examples of a movie editing including all typical steps. At this point I have to struggle through each step: can't figure the Trimmer window - what exactly it does? Cutting a piece of the event and putting it to the timeline?
If I have an event on the timeline which I want to trim, do I take it from the timeline, work on it in the Trimmer window, then put back on the timeline? Do I delete the original item on the timeline before doing it? Or is it replaced by the trimmed event.
Sorry for stupid questions.
This site is a great help. Thanks in advance. (I have VMS 4)

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Chienworks wrote on 11/14/2005, 3:21 PM

I can't recall the last time i touched the trimmer. If i want to trim a clip in the timeline i do it right there in the timeline. If i want to trim a clip that isn't in the timeline, i put it in the timeline to trim it. For the types of editing i do i find the trimmer to be cumbersome and more effort.

Leon_S wrote on 11/15/2005, 7:23 AM

Thanks very much.
I have another question: do you add background audio after the video tracks have been edited? I also saw a post mentioning that you are supposed to render wav file separately in order to make an NTSC DVD???

Chienworks wrote on 11/15/2005, 9:13 AM

Generally i'll start with audio, then edit the video to fit that. Occasionally when i can't make a good fit and the video timing is more important i'll edit the audio to fit the video, but that's rare.

To produce a DVD you should render the video to MPEG2 using the DVD Architect Video Stream template, then render the audio to WAV separately. DVD Architect will join these two files back together. If you use the identical name (except for the file type extension) for the two files then DVD Architect will find the audio file automatically. If it doesn't find it for whatever reason, double-click on the play media button you've created in DVD Architect and drag the WAV file onto the timeline that shows up there.

IanG wrote on 11/16/2005, 1:45 AM

I do some very rough video editing first, just to get some idea of sequence and timing, add the audio, and then edit to fit. If I was disciplined enough to storyboard things I'd do the same as Chienworks.

Ian G.

Leon_S wrote on 11/20/2005, 10:18 PM

I edited a wedding movie in 3 parts. 2 parts shorter and one longer - about 40 min.
The 1st two parts came out OK, however the longer part would not render audio mix - 2 tracks, movie audio and music. I tried couple times - result is the same: on;y music is in the wav file, and the movie sound is missing. A shorter portion was rendered OK.
I tried to search forum, and seen a similar problem reported, but no solution.
Someone suggested to try rendering sound separately. I don't see how in the menu - I am using Movie studio 4.0. Is it possible to render wav separately?

Leon_S wrote on 11/20/2005, 10:19 PM

Oh, I think I found - just choose a different template? I'll give it a try.

Leon_S wrote on 11/20/2005, 10:49 PM

I could not find an option to render video separately in MS 4. I tried a full rendering of a shortened movie (25 min) - no sound mixing again, just background music. ???

IanG wrote on 11/21/2005, 4:18 AM

Have you muted one of your audio tracks?

Ian G.

Leon_S wrote on 11/21/2005, 5:42 AM

One track of the 3 (audio effects) was muted. but the 2 active tracks are not.

Leon_S wrote on 11/21/2005, 6:12 AM

After rebooting it seems to work (at least a trial portion).
Hopefully, a software glitch.
A similar problem was reported by someone at this forum - he said audio sometimes would be missing.

Anyway, thanks for advice, averyone.
This forun is a big help - not much response I got from Sony (on a different matter)