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Working with the trimmer in V9
Just been looking for trimmer video tutes and have come across a mere one [another forgot the audio]…
Do you use the trimmer? From older posts it seems a matter of taste. Some do, some dont, all have good reasons why.
I’d like to try but don’t know much about it.
Know any video tutes?Can you explain why you use find it of value or what works for you.
I normally have an editor to cut programs but he has fled so I figure it is about time to learn Vegas. Should be fun. thx
Geoffrey Mee
Documentary Cameraman/Producer
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Here are some tutorials about working with the trimmer:
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/news/article.asp?articleid=48&keycode=3510
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/news/article.asp?articleid=61&keycode=64133
And to be honest, I never use the trimmer. I find working on the timeline much faster, easier and more logic. Working with the trimmer is a kind of ‘old fashioned way’ which is still used in programs like Adobe Premiere….
Theo
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Ok Theo I’ll check them out.
Well your determination that it is “old fashioned” is the kiss of death relly:). You certainly put that one to bed!To explain a little more, I have 4 1x tapes that I have digitized. I need to find a logical, clean and neat way of selecting shots or parts there of and putting them into folders [would that be Bins?]. Can you tell me how you organize your shots into segments pls.
Geoffrey Mee
Documentary Cameraman/Producer
Jakarta Indonesia -
‘Can you tell me how you organize your shots into segments pls.’
I just drop all the footage on the timeline. There I have a nice overview of what I shooted. On the timeline I can rearrange the order of the clips, cut them in pieces if needed, remove whole clips if they are not needed, drag them temporary on a temporary track, trim them using ripple edit, rolling edit, slip edit etc.
And if you still like to work with subclips, you can also create them from the timeline. I can do everything I need on the timeline. But the timeline offers much more space and flexibility then the trimmer.
So my first step after dropping all the footage (video and audio) on the timeline is making a crude selecting on where the clips should be and how they should be trimmed. in a second round, I add effects, create compositions and finally add graphics from external programs like photoshop, AE, PI etc.Theo
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Thx Theo
One Q…in this case i have 4 hours of footage…4 tapes.
How does that effect the speed of the machine- the amount of resources/ram I use by putting [lets say] one hour at a time on the timeline.
I wouldn’t expect to put all 4 hours there at once as 1 hour at a time is enough. But even so, how does that much footage effect the efficiency of the computer for basic cutting.What do you mean by a temporary track?
But I get the drift so I’ll do it that way. Thx again
Geoffrey Mee
Documentary Cameraman/Producer
Jakarta Indonesia -
When you have a problem that your project becomes to big, you may start working with sub projects. Just divide your footage over multiple projects. Then prepare all these subprojects independent of the others. And when finished, import all these sub-projects into your main project as nested projects (without redering first). If you then still wants to make a change in such a subproject, the main project will be updated automaticly.
Temporary tracks are just tracks I create to store certain events (or copies of events) temporary. Sometimes this is so that I can decide later whether I want to use them or because I want to use them in a later timepoint of the project.
Before rendering the final project, I delete these temporary tracks again.Theo
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Sounds like great advice Theo – thx
Geoffrey Mee
Documentary Cameraman/Producer
Jakarta Indonesia
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