• Adobe After Effects

  Trimming Vid, then just save.. not re-encoding

  Posted by Kelly Johnson on November 29, 2008 at 5:05 am

  Am I mad or is this another genius thing that should happen… can I not simply edit a video clip and just “save as” without going through an encoding process?

  I have a big file, about 984 megs and I need to cut out about 5 minutes in the middle.

  Trouble is, I then have to re-render down to a new file which means setting a codec and all.

  I’m just trying to find some app that will act like Photoshop essentially;.. open a tif, crop a little and save. Done. No worrying about changing parameters (in this case encoding).

  Can this be done and I’m just overlooking it or is there some reason a video editing app cannot simply cut and save the file?

  Jeremy Allen replied 17 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Criis Daw

  November 29, 2008 at 12:15 pm

  i might be missing the point but cant quick time pro do that ?
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  Jeremy Allen

  November 29, 2008 at 6:15 pm

  Yep.

  With Quicktime Pro, you simply open the video, set the in (I) and out (O) points of the section to be deleted. Then you just cut and save.

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