How can I heal a splice?

[Norman Willis]

Hi Edward:

>>BTW, Excalibur has an “unsplit” tool built into it.

If I ‘split’ and event in a few places (say, in order to take out ‘stumbles’ in the talent’s performance), and then I do a whole bunch of editing, and then two days later I want to ‘weld’ two or more of these now-separate events back into one larger single event (say, so I can apply FX equally to all these events together, but without applying them to everything on the track), will Excalibur let me do that?

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
servant@nazareneisrael.org

[Hugh Macdonald]

The pieces are not contiguous after removing pieces. But just output the track (cntrl-M) and you will not lose quality since no recompression will occur (if smart rendering). It will take hard disk space for the new file.
Otherwise, make a separate project of it and import it (i.e. nest it).

[Hugh Macdonald]

Good point. As a software designer I think there are rather easy creative solutions.
UNSPLICE would only work if the two clips when joined form contiguous footage. So it would not be bad to just leave the common FX at the last setting, just as when you extend the length of a clip. Similarly extending a new added FX from one clip to all the others is just as is done when doing PASTE ATTRIBUTES. Nothing new.
Of course there can be confusion if two or more of the same FX are active in one clip but not another. Like two chromakeys or levels. You might have difficulty in choosing which FX to join to each other.
In my editing, I would have the same FXs applied to any series of clips I would later want to UNSPLIT.
For my own likely scenarios of use, any solution (duplicate FXs, choose one randomly to append, etc.) would be more useful than not having UNSPLICE.

[Edward Troxel]

It simply automates the process mentioned previously in this thread. If you have a single event that is split into two or more events, It deletes the event(s) to the right and expands the left-most event to fill the now empty space.

Edward Troxel

[Norman Willis]

Hi Hugh.

>>Otherwise, make a separate project of it and import it (i.e. nest it).

OK, how do I ‘nest’ it?

Thanks.

[Norman Willis]

Hi Edward.

>>It simply automates the process mentioned previously in this thread. If you have a single event that is split into two or more events, It deletes the event(s) to the right and expands the left-most event to fill the now empty space.

Do you mean it deletes the border between the left and right event? Or that it deletes the event?

Supposing I have a ten minute presentation on the timeline, and I split it into two events, a four minute one, and a five minute one, and cut out a minute in the middle that does not belong. If I use the Excalibur unsplice, do I get all nine minutes of presentation? Or do I get four minutes expanded to fill nine minutes?

[John Rofrano]

You need Vegas Pro to nest (Movie Studio won’t do this) but you just drop a VEG file onto the timeline just like any other piece of media and it creates a single event just like any other piece of media. The advantage is that you can right-click on the VEG file and edit the project, make changes, and those changes are instantly reflected in the current project that it is nested in.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Hugh Macdonald]

Say you duplicate your project (xxx.veg) and eliminate all but the track that has the two pieces. (Or just mute all but.) Save this project, e.g. “two.veg”.

In your original project create a new track and drag two.veg into it. The project two.veg will appear as one item in the other project.

(You can apply fx, edit it, etc, like any video clip.)

[Norman Willis]

Nice.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
servant@nazareneisrael.org

[Edward Troxel]

If there’s a gap on the timeline between the events, it won’t delete the one on the right.

If you have a 10 minute clip, the first clip is first 5 minutes, the second clip is the last 4 minutes, and they are a cut (i.e. butted together), it will turn them into a single clip containing the first 9 minutes. It simply looks to make sure both events are from the SAME MEDIA.

The basis of the tool is assuming you’ve pressed “S” a few times and the event was split but segments were NOT cut out. You wouldn’t want to “heal” a split where a segment was cut out!

Edward Troxel