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is writing subclips the fastest way to break up a big clip?
Hi,
I have several 25GB files back from a company that digitised all my grandma’s 8mm footage (taken from 1940 onwards). It’s stunning stuff. Now I’m breaking them down into small files to be uploaded to youtube to share with my family. There is about 180GB total.Going through the “create independant files from subclips” process includes rewriting files. I was just wondering whether there’s a faster method that doesn’t involve writing files, just clipping them and hitting “save as” or something. I assume the answer will be “no, because movie files don’t work like that”.
Thanks in advance,
Nick
Bonus question: are there any bodies interested in reviewing this kind of footage? Shots of Manhattan, India, Cuba, most of Europe, most of the USA, Canada, and so on. Universities? Film museums?
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In reply to your sub-thread question.
Here in the UK most old film material, or digital copies of it, taken by ‘the man (or woman) in the street’ that contains records of past local activities is likely to be welcomed by the archivist of the area’s Film and Sound Archives. It is quite possibly so where you are as well.
In fact, some Archives will also digitise film stock accepted into their custody and return a gratuitous DVD copy to the donor.This is also an incentive to the lay person who may otherwise discard the film because they have not got suitable viewing apparatus. But the film content must be of some historical value to the local archives. -
Thanks, I will look into archives. Especially after I’ve split these videos up.
PROBLEM: I thought this was a good method, but it seems to be messing up for some reason. I have cut each file into about 10-15 shorter subclips. I use media manager to create new files of the sub clips. I thought that had worked for the first video. But for the second, it only created half the files, at random, and the durations of these new files did not match the durations shown in fcp. In other words, it had failed to work. Looking back at the first video again, I noticed that in a couple of movies, the durations had changed.
In other words, FCP doesn’t seem to be able to handle the big file sizes, or cutting large files down into lots of smaller ones.
So, at the moment I’m going back to the original movies, and using MPEG Streamclip I’m exporting selected areas of the videos. This is going to take me a long time (because that’s not a batch method). Any suggestions?
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