trimming clips

rdavis01 wrote on 11/3/2003, 1:26 PM
Does anybody have a method for trimming clips that actually modifies the source file?

I have some video that was done in one long take so when captured only one clip was created. There are several long segments of video in this clip that I have no use for.

It's easy enough to trim this out from my final video by splitting the event (in several places) and then trimming each of the new events, but I would like to actually do something like this to the underlying source clip to make it smaller.

I suppose I could do this splitting the event and trimming out what I don't want and then rerender to .avi and save that to my hard drive, but I was wondering if there was a way to do this that didn't involve any rendering.

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 11/3/2003, 3:30 PM

Saving your edited video as a new AVI and then throwing out your original longer AVI is your best, and possibly only, solution.

It's not a big deal, and doesn't take long with virtually no loss of quality. In fact, I don't see any down side at all to it.

I do it all the time, when I'm assembling clips for a longer project. It's much better than letting your video drive get all bogged down with extra footage you have no use for!