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Breaking Up Large Footages
Does anybody know if there’s an easy way to breakup large video footage into smaller clips and save it so that it can be referenced next time?
I tried using the trimming window but I found it hard to navigate use (or maybe I’m not using it correctly)?
I work with a lot of long footages and I always just throw it on the timeline and break up the clips using “S” split screen and then save the project and REFERENCE it later but it’s so annoying having to navigate between the real WORK PROJECT and REFERENCE PROJECT because I need to mix a lot of difference long footages and it’s really hard to navigate between multiple REFERENCE PROJECTS.
Does anybody have any ideas?
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[Wendy Lam] “save it so that it can be referenced next time?”
You create a subclip to do this. The subclip will be listed in the project media window. You can save a subclip in the trimmer or from the timeline.
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This is what the Trimmer was designed for. You can go thought your footage in the trimmer and create SubClips as Norman suggested. If you select a media bin first, the sub clips will go into that media bin. When you’re done you will have a bin full of sub clips of just the footage you want to use.
~jr
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The trimmer is for that purpose, You may hate using it,
but its something you need to learn and get comfortable using.Steve Rhoden
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Oh okay, I’ll practice more with it. Thanks guys!
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These all work for sure but there may be an easier way if you are done editing and just want to save the entire project with trimmed media.
Save your project under a new name only this time select COPY MEDIA with PROJECT. It will then ask you if you want to create trimmed sources of the media in addition to being able to add extra head and tail in seconds to the trimmed media. Save the whole project to a new folder you created. The only downside is you will lose any sub folders you may have created for your different media. Not ideal but it will work in the short term. Don’t recall this being an option in the prior version of Vegas Pro as I only recently discoverd it.
All of my work for any project goes into one main folder then sub folders are created for anything esle. This way I am not hunting all over for files and can backup a projext easily.
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[Joe Mantaratz] “It will then ask you if you want to create trimmed sources of the media in addition to being able to add extra head and tail in seconds to the trimmed media.”
It’s important to note that this option will only work for media that uses Intraframe codecs like DV and CineForm. It will not work for long GOP Intraframe codecs like MPEG2/AVC/H.264 media; it will just copy the whole file even if you only used one frame.
[Joe Mantaratz] “Don’t recall this being an option in the prior version of Vegas Pro as I only recently discoverd it.”
It’s probably been there since at least Vegas 3.0 or 4.0 because it was a major feature back in the day when working with DV footage (when it actually worked as expected).
~jr
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Had no idea this was a limitation of this function. I personally don’t use it as I prefer to keep my heirarchy folder structure.
Thanks for the info….seems to be a week of new tid bits.
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Yea, there are a a lot of features in Vegas Pro from back in the days of DV that broke when HD came along. Network rendering was another one. I guess that’s called progress. lol. 😉
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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