Clip Splitting

I am havin problems spliting a clip. I don't find a split clip button nor the scissors. When I open tools it goes soft and unusable.

Willie615
What version of Premiere Elements are you using and on what computer operating system is it running?
The answers will be in the details.
While we await the details, I will guess that you have Premiere Elements 11 on Windows.
If that is what you have, where are you - in the Expert or Quick workspace.
If you are in the Expert workspace, look for the Timeline Indicator (red stem, blue head). Highlight the clip that you want to split. Then hold your mouse cursor over the stem of the Timeline Indicator. About half way down that stem you should see a tab. The tab shows the scissors shape. Click on that to split the clip at the place of the Timeline Indicator.
Another approach would be to move the Timeline Indicator to the spot to be cut, and then use the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+K.
Same principles are involved in doing this in the Quick workspace.
Please review. If any questions on this or clarification needed, please do not hesitate to ask.
I do not understand your problem with the Tools. So, we may have to go further into that with more details.
Thanks.
ATR

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I'm in the multitrack editor with a single mono track of voiceover where I'm assembling a complete take of the script.
So it seems that the clip doesn't need to be selected for the Clip > Split (Cmd-K) to work. So I'll happily be scrubbing, zooming and locating a split point, press Cmd-K and sometimes it splits the clip sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, I go to the Clip menu and see that the Split menu is greyed out. But why!?
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Martin

Thanks Durin. I've just had another look at this and it seems to be a bug caused by using Ripple Delete.
Place a clip that's 60 secs or longer on track 1 of multitrack session.
Move to 30 secs and split the clip at the playhead.
Move to 40 secs and split the clip at the playhead.
Select the new clip created between 30/40 secs and press Shift-Delete to do a ripple delete on the clip.
No clips remain selected however...
If the playhead is positioned after the 30 sec edit point then the Clip > Split menu is available.
If the playhead is positioned before the 30 sec edit point then the Clip > Split menu is unavailable.

Clips splitting when adding more clips

i have one main movie in my project and then I'm adding more clips on top of it on other video tracks.
the only problem is, whenever i do that, my main clips splits into two, right in the place where i'm adding a new clip. is there any way to disable that?

sounds like you are insert editing the new clips and you want to do an overwrite edit.
if you are doing it by drag and drop, take note of an arrow that appears when you drag the clip to the timeline. if you hover the mouse in the top third of the clip you are editing to, the arrow will point right - meaning it will 'insert' the new clip, and therefore move everything to accommodate. If you hover the mouse in the bottom two thirds, you will see the arrow point down - this means it will be an overwrite edit, and it won't move the other clips..
cheers
hugh

Captured clips split in several short segments

During capturing the clips split into several segments, some very short. What could be the cause?

This is an HDV camera isn't it? Did you shoot DV on it or HDV? What is it set to output?
The camera should split clips at every shot change, and there will be some loss when that happens, so if the shots are short to start, they will be even shorter.

What kind of problem? (Unwanted clip splitting when importing)

I am using an intel iMac (alu 2.4 ghz) and a sony hdr-hc5. Did import almost 2 hours of video in full hd (but not the full pixels quality, I think around 590? dont remember...)
The problem is that sometimes (not much just one-two times ) i've got "splits" during a clip (but there was not a "stop" during recording) resulting in a small gap in video/audio. So since I remember that got similar thing with another camcorder (DV not fullhd), I wanted to know if You experienced similar problems, or the problem is 1) my firewire cable, 2) my imac/hard disk.. or am just unlucky with cameras!! ...
Thanks and sorry for my bad english, (i was in hurry too)!

The problem is that sometimes (not much just one-two times ) i've got "splits" during a clip (but there was not a "stop" during recording) resulting in a small gap in video/audio. So since I remember that got similar thing with another camcorder (DV not fullhd), I wanted to know if You experienced similar problems, or the problem is 1) my firewire cable, 2) my imac/hard disk.. or am just unlucky with cameras!
My best guess would be inconsistent drive speed or vibration detection by the Sudden Motion Sensor. If the problem is more or less consistent, I would assume the former. If only infrequent, I would tend to go with the latter. Here is some background information per Apple Article 300781:
All MacBook and MacBook Pro computers, PowerBook G4 computers starting with PowerBook G4 (12-inch 1.5GHz), PowerBook G4 (15-inch 1.67/1.5GHz), and PowerBook G4 (17-inch 1.67GHz) and iBook computers starting with iBook G4 (Mid 2005) have Sudden Motion Sensor technology, built-in protection for the hard disk that is designed to help prevent disk failures if the computer is dropped or undergoes severe vibration. The Sudden Motion Sensor is designed to detect unusually strong vibrations, sudden changes in position or accelerated movement. If the computer is dropped, the Sudden Motion Sensor instantly parks the hard drive heads to help reduce the risk of damage to the hard drive on impact. When the Sudden Motion Sensor senses that the PowerBook position is once again stable, it unlocks the hard drive heads, and you are up and running within seconds.
In general, Sudden Motion Sensor protection does not change hard disk performance with regular PowerBook, MacBook or MacBook Pro operation. Occasionally, the Sudden Motion Sensor may be activated by unusually strong vibrations at a time when your PowerBook is writing data intensively, such as when recording video or audio. Should you experience dropped frames or sound elements in such a situation, make sure that your PowerBook is in a stable environment without vibration or abrupt movement.
(Note that in some locations you may see the Sudden Motion Sensor referred to as the Mobile Motion Module. Both names refer to the same feature.)
For those interested, the following was extracted from Apple Article 300724:
Apple has adjusted this feature carefully to provide the best balance between protecting the hard drive and preventing unwanted activation of the Sudden Motion Sensor. Most PowerBook G4 owners will never need to turn this feature off, and Apple suggests that you not modify the settings unless absolutely necessary.
In some environments, such as live concert halls, recording studios, or dance clubs, external vibrations may be major enough to cause the module to unexpectedly park the hard drive heads, resulting in interrupted sound or video playback. In these situations, you may find that you want to disable the feature temporarily.
To disable the Sudden Motion Sensor:
First, find the current status of Sudden Motion Sensor:
1. From the Finder's Go menu, choose Utilities.
2. In the Utilities folder, open Terminal.
3. When the command line appears, type sudo pmset -g and press Return.
4. Type in the administrator password when prompted and hit Return. This command queries the computer for the current setting of the Sudden Motion Sensor, which you can determine by locating the ams entry (in Mac OS X 10.3) or the sms entry (in Mac OS X 10.4) and looking to the right to determine its value. The default setting is "1" (turned on).
Disabling the Sudden Motion Sensor in Mac OS X 10.3:
1. In Terminal, which should still be open from the previous step, you can disable the Sudden Motion Sensor by typing sudo pmset -a ams 0 and pressing Return (changing the setting to a zero disables the module).
2. Type your administrator password when you are prompted and press Return.
3. Type the sudo pmset -g command again to be sure that the setting has been applied.
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2. Type your administrator password when you are prompted and press Return.
3. Type the sudo pmset -g command again to be sure that the setting has been applied.
Any changes that you make to the Sudden Motion Sensor setting remains in effect even after you restart the computer. If you choose to disable the Sudden Motion Sensor, Apple recommends that you re-enable it as soon as possible in order to take full advantage of the feature.
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1. From the Finder's Go menu, choose Utilities.
2. In the Utilities folder, open Terminal.
3. When the command line appears, type sudo pmset -g and press Return. Type your administrator password when you are prompted and press Return. If you have the Sudden Motion Sensor turned off, the value of the ams entry (in Mac OS X 10.3) or sms entry (in Mac OS X 10.4) will be a zero (0).
Re-enabling the Sudden Motion Sensor in Mac OS X 10.3:
1. If the above command returns a zero, you can re-enable the Sudden Motion Sensor by typing sudo pmset -a ams 1 and pressing Return.
2. Type your administrator password when you are prompted and press Return.
3. Type the pmset -g command again to be sure that the setting has been applied.
Re-enabling the Sudden Motion Sensor in Mac OS X 10.4:
1. If the above command returns a zero, you can re-enable the Sudden Motion Sensor by typing sudo pmset -a sms 1 and pressing Return.
2. Type your administrator password when you are prompted and press Return.
3. Type the pmset -g command again to be sure that the setting has been applied.

Multiple clips + split + delete = wrong result

Some time ago I encountered a rather weird problem in iMovie:
I imported several (3 to be exact) HD clips from my camera (each about 60 minutes long) into a single iMovie project. As I wanted to discard several parts of the last clip, I split that clip into several parts and then deleted the unwanted parts. The result however was that some piece of footage of the length I was "removing" was removed somewhere else (I can't remember where exactly but can most probably reproduce it if someone needs to know) while the unwanted part was still shown on playback.
Has anyone else experienced this problem in iMovie 6, and if so, is it solved in a later version ?

Hi
Only times my Mac starts to behave in an occult fashion is
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• or when free space on internal boot hard disk goes low eg under 10Gb. Then my Mac
get's confused and does a lot of silly things.
• Or when I try to do something even the program maker didn't think of. So easy to
take things for granted. Then figuring out that it wasn't the way to do it.
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*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
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• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Garageband-fix. Start it and Close it. Re-try
• Delete iMovie pref file - or rather start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
iMovie pref file resides:
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences and is named: com.apple.iMovie.plist
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iMovie.
• Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08)
• Program miss-match: iMovie 5.0.2, up to Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK
• Program miss-match: iMovie 6.0.3 or 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iMovie’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
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From LKN 1935: (in this case = iMovie HD (5), I tried it all, but nothing worked.
Your answer (above) has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that
there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled
iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos)
to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before.

Clip splitting and then copying

Hello all,
I guess there should be already an answer to my question somewhere, but as I haven't found it in less than 30 minutes, I then add a new post:
I've imported a big .dv clip (export from a friend's iMovie project — the original scenes are no longer available) in a new project, and used the "cmd-T" to split it into small scenes. I've removed some of them, shorten others, etc. and emptied the trash at the end.
When I then try to use one of the small clips in another project, or just copy it on my HD, it copies actually the whole big .dv clip...!
How can I copy just one single little clip?
Thank for any kind of help.

Famille,
Welcome to the Discussions!
"How can I copy just one single little clip?"
Select the clip in the timeline the choose Share>QuickTime>Full Quality and check the "Share Selected Clips Only" checkbox. Click the Share Button.
The resulting clip and then be dragged into your new project.
Matt

Capture clips split

Hello -
Is there a way to "Capture" miniDV tape footage into FCPX and NOT have it split the clips up by timecode / date breaks?
In other words, just have FCPX capture the whole tape as one big file.

Thanks Al ... but that's a "workaround" solution; which does work as I have done that as well.
Apparently FCPX, currently, can NOT do this simple task ... maybe / hopefully in a future update as I have submitted this as a "feature request" to the FCPX team.

Converting HDV to H.264 for storage. Any simple way dates and clip splits can be preserved?

THE PROBLEM
Tapes are one of the riskiest ways to archive footage as not only is there the possibility of tape damage but the very real chance that the camera will fail after a few years leaving you with unplayable footage .. .. .. .. unless you are lucky enough to find a replacement one or are prepared to spend money on obsolete equipment.
A further disadvantage is the linear nature of tape which takes ages to import or spool through.
THE SOLUTION
Digital storage on hard drives, memory sticks or SD cards has none of these problems and your video can be played anywhere on any computer etc.
Furthermore after converting to H.264, the video is virtually identical in quality and only takes up 35% of the space (using FCP X's convert to H.264 default setting).
THE SNAGS
I intend to import all my HDV tapes, stick each one on the FCP X timeline and export it as mentioned above.
This will reduce my HDV file size to around 4GB which would also fit conveniently on one DVD, as well as the above mentioned storage devices.
The only problem I can see is that I wll lose the date/time and also the clip-breaks.
The precise date/time is not a serious problem but I would like to preserve clip breaks if possible, even though the inability to do so would not be too serious.
THE HELP?
So have there been any recent developments that would help me with either of these problems cheaply and quickly.
P.S. I know that I could burn the date/time on the first frame of every clip but that would take an eternity. I could also export every clip singly to H.264 but that too would take an age.

Thanks for the reply, however, unless I am missing something there would be no advantage over simply retaining the original imported HDV files and avoiding the additional time taken to create the archive?
The H.264 route preserves the quality whilst dramatically reducing the file size and will probably be a more universally accepted format than HDV.
Luckily I can live without the metadata and timecode but it would be nice to be able to preserve it.
Naturally I have written details but as they are not integral with the video, there is always the strong possibility of them being lost after my demise.
I intend to keep the HDV tapes and camera of course, but I don't know how long the camera (even when unused) will survive.
My original Canon Video 8 camcorder, bought in 1992 packed in after 8 years leaving me with 25 unplayable tapes until last year, when by a minor miracle I was able to borrow a Video 8 tape deck.
Similarly, my first mini-DV camera purchased in 2000, packed in recently but luckily I have another DV camera together with my HDV one which can still play them.
From the research I have done it seem quite general that many cameras, even when little used, bite the dust after a decade, probably due to electronic deterioration/malfunction. They work perfectly but the next time you use them the transport mechanism refuses to function even though there is obviously no mechanical wear.

How do you split clips in the event viewer in iMovie '11?

I'm using iMovie '11 and have imported a very long movie (over an hour from VCR Tape) that I want to split into multiple events, however the "Split Clip" option is grayed out. How can I split a large event into smaller events?

I have discovered a round-about way to split large events from comments in this forum, so apologies, and or thanks to other posters.
You can split events by deleting (and discarding) a single frame at the point where you want to split the two clips. It's processor intensive (takes a while to do), but it works.
1.) In the Event Viewer, click to select where you want to split the event.
2.) Drag the yellow handles to make the selection as small as possible (1 frame?). If you drag the thumbnail display slider to the left to show only 1/2 second intervals, it helps when selecting a single frame.
3.) Right click and select "Reject Selection". The clip is now split.
4.) When you've completed all of your clip splitting, select "Show: Rejected Only" at the bottom of the Event Viewer to show all of the rejected frames.
5.) Click on "Move Rejected to Trash". This operation could take a while.
That should be it.
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Can't split a clip?

Probably a super-dumb newb question, but...
I want to take multiple clips, pulling bits out of each, and editing theme together into one movie. Everything worked fine on the first clip: split it where I wanted to, got rid of the unnecessary, bits, put in transitions...easy peasy.
Dropped the second clip into the timeline tried to do the same thing...no matter what I do, "Modify"->"Split Clip" is greyed out.
Dunno if it helps, but I've attached a Grab of what the iMovie layout looks like. I'm trying to chop up that long clip on the right...
Any advice would be appreciated. It can even be prefaced by, "Hey, dummy." Provided it's helpful, of course.
iMovie 10.0.5.
Thanks.

It looks as though you are trying to split a clip in the Event.
Pretty sure the clip has to be in a Project for it to have the SPLIT CLIP option.

Saving split clips individually?

I keep _almost_ finding my answer here, but still not quite.
Here is the situation: I have a DVD of film-to-video conversion of old 8mm movies from long ago. I have pulled the 50 minutes of video off the dvd and into Premiere. I have played it through, split it into short segments as filmed on the 8mm originals, and deleted the junk.
So now I have a timeline with about 50 short clips split out from the original.
I want to export them as 50 short little videos to pick and choose from for other things.
It is not practical to Save-As into 50 different projects and delete-all-but-one-and-export.
I have tried every variation that I can think of to drag and drop, or copy-paste, etc.
What is the trick here? How do I export all these little clips?
Thanks,
Eric

Eric,
Welcome to the forum.
The best workflow from PrE, would be to use the WAB (Work Area Bar), and Export/Share to 50 individual DV-AVI files. This is a look at the WAB:
That view is from PrE 4.0, but should be almost identical to what you will see in later versions.
Good luck,
Hunt

Splitting events to speed things up

I followed the simple instructions of marking a clip as the first clip in a new event folder. But under File.....the clip split function is gray...nothing. I tried it every way, including removing audio from the clip, still nothing.
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I followed the simple instructions of marking a clip as the first clip in a new event folder. But under File.....the clip split function is gray...nothing
This option is only available when any clip OTHER THAN THE FIRST is selected in an EVENT WINDOW. If the first clip or no clip at all is selected in the event window, then the option will remain grayed out.

Trying to get 4 clips on the screen at once for school project - HELP!!!:)

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I am trying to finish a school project about a fieldtrip which we have been on over the past few days and want four clips from the movie I have made to be on in the background while the title comes on the screen for each day.
Can anyone help please? I have seen some plugins but cannot afford to buy them just for this video but am desperate to make it look how I want it!
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You might try to use the button windows for your seperate movie clips. These can be moved about and enlarged. Try this site, it does a good job with an overview http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/idvd_5stone.html
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Not entirely sure what you are trying to do but hope that helps.

How can I adjust the clip speed in the editing window of Premiere Elements 11?

In former versions of Premiere Elements I could change the function while pushing the corner of a clip in the editing window: it was not cutting only, but I could also use it to adjust the speed of a clip (clicked the clock icon, after that the speed of a clip was adjusted perfectly).
But in Premiere Elements 11 this funktion seems to have gone: Now the timeline in the editing window seems to have the cutting function only!
Yes, I still can use the function "prolong time" (or whatever it is called in English, I use the German version), but in this I just can guess what percentage would fit and it's a very hard "try & error" part to get it right. In the former version the speed was adjusted "automatically" to fit the duration the clip needs – that was way more comfortable.
So, is this function really gone? I couldn't emagine why! Or how is this done now?
Couldn't find any post or video, explaning how to do that now.
No: The new "time zone" feature is not the same: it's not adjusting the needed speed rate automatically.
And by the way: There is a bug in that fuction: When I once added a new time zone, I can't remove it – clicking "set back" (or reset) doesn't do anything, the time zone stays where it is and is not deleted at all! I'm using a Windows 7 Ultimate system (64 bit) ...
I really would appreceate if someone could tell me how to adjust the clip speed perfectly to the needed duration of a clip!
Thanks in advance!

SG
An interesting point that you point out
"However, the drag-to-size method of adjusting Time Stretch has indeed been removed from version 11."
I am assuming that you are referring to an earlier version of Premiere Elements, having a Time Stretch icon (clock icon) above the Timeline to select, and then perhaps, with the mouse cursor, dragging on the end of the video clip to increase its duration. The keyboard shortcut to select the "clock icon" in thar instance is X. If you look at Premiere Elements 11 Edit Menu/Keyboard Customization/Windows/Timeline Window/, you will mysteriously find "Time Stretch Tool" command with a keyboard shortcut X. And, if you look at Premiere Elements 11 Edit Menu/Keyboard Customization/Applications/Time Stretch, you will find "Time Stretch" with a keyboard shortcut Ctrl+R. Bottom line: I have not gotten the keyboard shortcut X to work in Premiere Elements 11 in this regard, but the Ctrl+R does to bring up the Time Stretch dialog to do the job.
In accord with this business of what is and what isn't...the good old Razor Tool. That disappeared from sight a long time ago. Yet users were able to use that in later versions using the keyboard shortcut C. Now for me that "C" does not work to change the mouse cursor to a razor for clip splitting at the Timeline level in Premiere Elements 11 in spite of the fact that Edit Menu/Keyboard Customization/Windows/Timeline Window continues to show Razor Tool command with keyboard shortcut C.
On the good news side of things, if one trims a clip in the Preview Window, one is still able to drag that trimmed clip to the Timeline (Expert view) and drag it out on either of its edges with the mouse cursor to recover the whole clip. And, the mouse cursor is still going to be that red ] with a double edged black horizontal arrow going through it.
ATR

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