trimmer - regions vs subclips?

dogwalker wrote on 9/3/2010, 12:08 PM

I've been tasked to create a collage of videos and photos for my mother-in-law's birthday. Based on advice I read a while back, I'm visiting each video in the trimmer and creating and saving regions.

Then, my plan is to start the "master" video and click on each source video, which will show its regions, which I assume I can drag to the timeline (haven't actually tried this yet).

All this brings me to my question - is there an advantage, given what I'm doing (multiple source videos) - to using sublips, or should I keep using regions?

Thanks!

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/3/2010, 12:39 PM

> ...is there an advantage, given what I'm doing (multiple source videos) - to using sublips, or should I keep using regions?

Actually what you are doing wouldn't work with Subclips at all since you want to work in a master project and subclips are project dependent so none of your subclips would be visible in the master project. Using regions is definitely the way to go for what you're doing because they stay embedded in the media regardless of what project you use the media in.

~jr

dogwalker wrote on 9/3/2010, 12:54 PM

Thanks, that's what I thought. I sure like using the regions in the trimmer! Makes this so much easier.

megabit wrote on 9/3/2010, 1:29 PM

Think of subclips as project-wide, and regions - as system-wide assets, comprising pointers to the in and out point in your physical clips, and ready to use individually just as if they were separate events.

Earl_J wrote on 9/3/2010, 5:51 PM

Another advantage to non-destructive editing: once you drag the region to the timeline, you can drag the in and out points to include or exclude a bit more from the piece you originally selected... so don't sweat over the original trimmer selection precision too much.

Once the region is selected, you can use the tab key to select audio or video only; you'll see the video track or audio track icon show on the left side of the event if you only want to select the audio or video without the other ... when no icon shows on either track, both are selected.

Just a tidbit that took me a while to figure out - once I read the instructions ... lol

Until that time ... Earl J.

dogwalker wrote on 9/3/2010, 6:42 PM

Thanks, megabit and Earl J! Good info!