clean up bins…… v5

[Mike Kujbida]

is it as simple as saying – save subclips – and deleting the rest

Do that Leslie and your subclips, as well as your original footage, will disappear!!
That’s because a subclip is simply a set of pointers to the ins & outs of the clip it came from.
If you really want to delete unwanted portions of the original material, render the subclip and re-name it to something that makes sense to you. Only then is it safe to do a right-click > remove from project and delete file(s).
Hope that makes sense as I’m just finishing my morning coffee and am not fully awake yet 🙂

Mike

[Leslie Wand]

hi mike, long time no hear, or rather, read….

that’s what i thought, but was rather hoping was wrong. is there a batch render in the clip bin, or do i have to render each individually on the timeline? if so, i think i might just go back to my es7….

how would you handle it?

thanks,

leslie

[Mike Kujbida]

Hello yourself. Things finally cooling off down under?
I do need to send you an email soon. Back to business though.

is there a batch render in the clip bin

Not that I’m aware of.

or do i have to render each individually on the timeline?

Simplest thing (I think) is to drag the subclips up to the timeline, leave a little space between each, and create regions out of each one (double-click and hit R – give each one a name if you want to). Then run the batch render script (comes with V5, I think) making sure to give it a name. Select “Render Regions” and choose the file format you want to render to. The only gotcha is that it’ll name all the rendered clips that name so you may have to go back in later and rename them to whatever you want. HTH.

[Leslie Wand]

look forward to hearing from you – and yes, it’s cooling down quite rapidly here – we don’t really get much warning! -5c at night to 22c at noon…

not exactly a happy vegimite – looks like a lot of pissing around to simply keep a bunch of clips. es7 excelled at that sort of thing, simply mark in / out, save, then delete original capture file. unfortunately sold the bloody thing, god offer and not enough work for it, especially after using v5 for all my smaller stuff (which is most of my work nowadays).

anyway, just ordered a new comp. for this project, so hopefully it will go quicker.

am thinking that, with this 12 hrs of material, i’ll simply load in ‘sections’, work on them, render them out, and clear drives… i’m getting 3x120gig drives, but i really don’t want to load all the tapes at once; possible disk problems, a truely unwieldly amount of material to sift through, etc.,

age shall not weary them, just make them look for shortcuts…

leslie

[Chris Young]

Hi Leslie ~

Long time no see! Bit of a work around but you could do the following, sort of a consolidation thing.

Place all the clips you require onto a timeline. Or a number of timelines if you want to categorise them. Next ‘Save as’ giving them some kind of easy to track ‘description’ in their Veg file names. BUT, important here, when you save them select the ‘Copy and trim media with project’ checkbox. This will take you to another dialogue box the ‘Copy media options’ box where you can select ‘Create trimmed copies of source media’, select the extra head/tails that you require on the copied media and choose your destination directory/drive wherever. This will make NEW copies of all the selected media in the timelines plus the extra handles to the new destination. Once you have done this you can delete of all the original media. I do this quite often on a weekly TV show where we might have around five to six hours of material per one-hour show. In our case this also saves all the graphics, music trax, voice-overs etc, the lot in other words. In a new project you can create new bins based on the ‘descriptions’ from the saved Veg files and import the copied media. It sure frees up a heap of space and is quite quick to do.

Cheers
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney

[Chris Young]

Leslie ~

Meant to add there is no quality loss in the copy process as it is just a straight native data copy of the selected pieces.

Cheers
Chris Young

[Leslie Wand]

hi chris, great to hear from you!

well, at times like this, the edit station excelled! will give your suggestion a whirl, though at present i’m more tempted to do the basic edit in sections, render them off, and clear the disks.

have just bought a new comp with 300+ gig hard drive space (3×120) – more than adequate for anything i’m likely to do nowadays! so, once i’ve got it up and running, i’ll get back with the results.

are you onto 6? is it worth the upgrade for som,eone like me?

take care of yourself,

leslie

[Chris Young]

Hi Leslie ~

New Comp eh! Could be worth the move to 6.0 then. I have V6 on one system, just getting used to it before it goes onto the main Vegas box for daily work. Only spent a little time with it to date as have been busy with work. From what I see its going forward with big improvments in its media management, which was a weak point with V5 and earlier. Ther are a host of other minor improvments plus the big thing of nesting Veg projects into other jobs. Faster rendering as well with re-written code to fully use dual processors and multi-threading. To get the best out of this you need minimum a 3.2/3.6 Gig P4 which are pseudo duals or best a dual proc Xeon. Give either one a fast raid system and then Vegas flys. A good SATA raid works well and doesn’t cost the earth. Let me know when you are in Syd next, catch up for coffee or lunch.

Cheers
Chris Young
Sydney

[Leslie Wand]

will certainly give you a call when i’m next down – what’s tel no. and your email. come to think of it, where are you nowadays?

can’t say when it’ll be. i’m here in heaven, and my only real trips are to the dentist (thankfulluy few and far apart – like my teeth!), and occassionally driving hanna down to give her a break – she teaches a couple of days a week at syd uni. but i’ll look forward to being able to talk dirty to someone about vegas, cpu’s, and the meaning of life – and it’s not 43…

just got a 3.4/1gigm/3x120gig sata. no raid since all i’m doing is dv, so 1 is for capture, 1 for bouncing around / storage, and the other system / progs … we’ll see how it goes.

have you used “fast” (xp file/setting transfer)? i’m think of doing so over network, rather than have to enter them all by hand?

leslie