Cutting down clips permanently.

Is there a way to cut down clips with a lot of unusable footage permanently? Ideally, I would like to make alterations in the viewer window and then move them back to the browser window. That way I can save hard drive space and not waste time with too much extra crap.
And can I split a clip into two separate clips permanently in the viewer window?

Final Cut is a nondestructive editor. No amount of editing in FCE is going to reduce the amount of disk space your captured clips take up or physically split a clip that exists on your HD.
You can open a clip in the Viewer, set In & Out points and drag the result onto the Canvas or Timeline; and you can do that repeatedly to the same original clip, setting different In & Out points each time. That gives you different clips on the timeline but it neither duplicates the original clip nor does it physically split the original clip.
The only 2 ways I know of to minimize disk usage is either 1) use Capture Clip (instead of Capture Now) to get just the parts you want from your tapes or 2) export the parts you want to QT files and then reimport them back into FCE, after which you could delete the original clips.

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Strange behavior - compositions being cut down

I'm trying to create After Effects compositions to be used in my Premiere Pro projects, but strange behavior is making this completely impossible. Here's how it goes:
1. Start a new AE project, start a new composition.
2. Add clips/effects/etc., save.
3. Start a NEW AE project, start a NEW composition.
4. Add clips/effects/etc., save.
5. Composition 1 has now been cut down to the time composition 2 and when trying to open composition 1 in AE, it redirects me to composition 2.
I don't get what's going on... it's like they're being linked, but they're two entirely different projects/compositions. This is crazy and it's wasting a lot of my time. Any help would be appreciated.

Let me slap my self on the forehead and say "D'oh" It's your workflow. You're using dynamic link in Premiere Pro. The proper workflow is to have all of the comps in the same AE project. In Premiere Pro you go to File>Dynamic Link>New After Effects Project. You create your comp size in Premiere Pro, not in AE, then AE opens up and you create your comp. When you want to create a new dynamic link you follow the same procedure.
Dynamic link can only look at one instance of AE at a time so it's looking at the last project for the comp info. It can't find comp 1 in project 1 because it's only looking at project 3. That explains the same comp showing up in all three locations. Fix the workflow and you'll fix the problem. In fact, I think that if you open up project 3 and import project 1 and project 2, then same project 3, then open up Premiere Pro your problem will be fixed.

Imported cips being cut down

hi
i have a series of clips all made in the same way ranging form 1 min to 8 mins
the short ones 1 / 2 / 3 mins long when imported into premier pro 4 work fine
the problen occours when i try to import a 8 min clip [ 3.5gb ] when i do this the clip is cut down to 1 min 30 secs is there some reason for this
am i going over some size limit
thanks

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If your problem isn't fixed after you follow all of the steps, report back with ALL OF THE DETAILS asked for in the FINALLY section, the questions at the end of the troubleshooting link... most especially the codec used... see Question 1

Why would dragging certain audio clips (or cutting said clips) cause program to crash?

Amateur Doug here!!!
In CS 5.5, when I highlight and drag some audio clips, the program freezes and won't shut down unless I power off. Ditto when I cut the clips to paste elsewhere.
I rebooted, same result.
I made a duplicate sequence same result.
I tried to cut the clips, same result.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated, because each experiment requires waiting for computer to reboot so it might be days before I find a workaround...

I got help for this issue over at CreativeCow's FCP pages -- it turns out, all I had to do was open a new project using an easy setting and project setting for vanilla PAL 25 fps SD stuff. All of the audio was correctly brought in -- then I disconnected all of the clips, made them dual mono, reconnected them, and copied them over to my old gristly project folder.
Now I can marry these dual mono 25fps files to the video files without having FCP incorrectly compensate for "30fps" by speeding these clips up slightly, so things stay in sync.

I'm trying to edit a talking head video and want to find an straightforward way to mark a spot at the end of a statement and then cut the clip at that point. Can you help? thanks.

I'm trying to edit a talking head video and want to find an straightforward way to mark a spot at the end of a statement made by the subject and then cut the clip at that point. Can you help? Thanks.

I don't know how to mark a clip the way you want without adding an audio clip and putting in markers and then splitting the clip. You would think that hitting M would be the logical way to do things, but...
But, one can just click before the place one wants to edit, hit the spacebar and hit it again when the exact place is reached. Then go to the clip menu and click split clip. That works, but one really needs to keep the cursor out of both the timeline and the event browser, or the place in the timeline gets changed..
Are you really still using iMovie 08? That drove me nuts...a year later iMovie 09 came out with some needed improvements, and iMovie 11 with its audio adjustments is even better.
Personally, I edit iMovie with kind of a meat axe. I grab whole chunks of video and put it into the project, then edit the ends to get the frame I want. I got too frustrated otherwise.
Hugh

I need to edit out parts of a song to cut it down to two minutes for my daughter's talent show. I went to info and it will cut down one part but only one part. I need to put three parts together. I tried adding duplicates of the song to the list but if I

I need to edit out parts of a song to cut it down to two minutes for my daughter's talent show. I went to info/start time and it will cut down one part but only one part. I need to put three parts together. I tried adding duplicates of the song to the list but if If I change the start time on one it will change it on all of them.

In your library, right-click the song you want to edit.
select "get info".
go to "options" and select the start and stop times for your first section of the song.
click "OK".
Find the shortened version of the song in your library. It may take a minute for it to show up. right click it again and select "create (????) version". (the ???? is different for different formats).
The library will spit out a new, second version of the song which you can rename. I suggest you use the original title and add a 1 to the end.
Now you can go back to the other version and repeat the process with a different start/stop time.
Once you are done editing, you can burn all of your versions to a disk, just make sure your interval time is zero so there are no gaps between edits.
To keep the orginal song on your library, just go back to the original and put the start/stop times back to the original settings.

Elements 9 ACR 6.5 is a cut down program

I've used ACR with CS4 before to process my RAW files but recently bought Lightroom 3.5 and Elements 9. I've upgraded both programs to ACR 6.5 to support my camera and noticed for the first time that the Elements plugin is a cut down version of ACR 6.5 with many of its features missing. If ACR 6.5 is a free download and available from thrid party websites why isn't the full program available when opening a RAW file withing Elements 9? I've tried downloading it from Adobe and using it as a standalone probram but when opening it up I'm told that it isn't appropriate.
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From what I’ve seen, while many adjustment tabs and sliders are not in PSE-hosted ACR, the underlying RAW converter is still the same, so if you have made adjustments in LR and save into an XMP then open in PSE, or just use Edit In Photoshop Elements from LR, the ACR that opens the file on the way in to PSE will apply all the adjustments that were made in LR. And so since you can make all the adjustments in LR there’s no need to make anymore adjustments in the ACR on the way into PSE is there?
Is your experience different than this, where if you do something in LR that doesn’t have a corresponding slider in the PSE-hosted ACR, it doesn’t get applied. For example, if you make a manual lens-correction for perspective that is easy to tell whether it happened or not, in LR and then do a Edit in Photoshop Elements from LR, does the perspective-correction not happen?
The only thing that should be different is that you have to be in LR to make all the adjustments, not use PSE-hosted ACR to make them.

SMARTFORM ERROR - Part of Text is cutting down after SPACE

Hi,
I have made a simple smartform just for test purpose.
I included a simple template in the main window which has 5 mm height and 3 cm width.
In the template there is one text element, and 1 included a constant text:
LABEL: YYYYYYYY
If i see the print preview, it displaying correctly.
BUT!
If I change the constant text to longer, to test what happens if the field is longer than the available size to display:
LABEL: YYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
In the print preview this will be shown:
LABEL:
So it means that those Y's are just cutting down.
If I replace the longer version of the text to:
LABEL:_YYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
In the print preview I can see as many characters as it can display, so some Y's are not printing:
LABEL:_YYYYYYYY
Can somebody tell me if I use spaces, how to avoid to cut the remaining text and display as many characters as it can like with underscore character?
This is a very strange and buggy behaviour.
BR,
Gabor from Hungary

Hi
I suppose I depends on the logic used in order to print a text in an area smoller than text
It seems it always tries to write fully the words, that means if the text has many words, the smartform writes the first words (on the left) fully and truncates the remaining words, if the text has one word only, smartform write the part of it can be contained.
So if you insert
A) LABEL: YYYYYYYY
There are 2 words:
LABEL:
YYYYYYYY
Both words can be contained so smartform writes both of them
B) LABEL: YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
There are 2 words:
LABEL:
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
The second word should be trucated, so the smartform writes the first only
C) LABEL:YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
There is only one word, so smartform writes only the character can be contained in the window
Max
Edited by: max bianchi on Nov 10, 2010 6:21 PM
Edited by: max bianchi on Nov 10, 2010 6:26 PM

Cut down Table data

Hi
I got one requirement to cut down one Table having 4 years worth of data. Requirement want to export only 6 month of data of same table to another database.
The problem with this table is that.. This table is not having any "date" column_name or Data_type.
Table structure is as ..
"CLICK_ID" NUMBER,
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"AGENT" NUMBER,
"TYPE" NUMBER,
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I am on Oracle 10g.
Let me know if you need more information.
Thanks

PK wrote:
Hi
I got one requirement to cut down one Table having 4 years worth of data. Requirement want to export only 6 month of data of same table to another database.
The problem with this table is that.. This table is not having any "date" column_name or Data_type.
Table structure is as ..
"CLICK_ID" NUMBER,
"MEMBER_ID" NUMBER,
"LINK_ID" NUMBER,
"CLICK_TIMESTAMP" NUMBER,
"REMOTE_HOST" VARCHAR2(255 CHAR),
"USER_AGENT" VARCHAR2(255 CHAR),
"FAMILY" NUMBER,
"AGENT" NUMBER,
"TYPE" NUMBER,
"COMBINED" NUMBER,
"BUILDMODE" NUMBER,
Please guide me how can I cutdown this table to only 6 months of data.
I am on Oracle 10g.
Let me know if you need more information.
ThanksObviously you are going to have to decide how to identify the age of a row. WE certainly don't know your application. I do see a column CLICK_TIMESTAMP that could be promising. What is it?

When i use the blade tool to cut a clip in an angle during multicam editing, i can't move the clips afterwards. it's like they are stuck together. ?????? Thanks, Mircea

when i use the blade tool to cut a clip in an angle during multicam editing, i can't move the clips afterwards. it's like they are stuck together. ??????
Thanks, Mircea

Hi,
I'm using 10.0.7. It's like snapping won't turn off. Instead ,if i use the keyboard to nudge the clips, there's no problem. I am using that at the moment.
1. when i try to drag
2. when i nudge:
3. snapping is off.
Thanks,
Mircea

Oracle 9i cut down version

Hi ,
We have an embedded license for the Oracle 9i DB Enterprise edition and we r planning to package it along with our application for the clients. But all we need from Oracle 9i DB is just the database and nothing else.
Due to the huge size of the Oracle DB around 1.5 gb we were thinking that if we cud a cut down version of the Oracle 9iDb it wud be easier to package along with our application.
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Java needs a cut down "media" VM

What would it take for java to take on flash in the internet media space?
My thoughts on why flash dominates java:
The java download is far too big, java is ~7MB, flash is ~1.8MB
The vm takes far too long to startup
You get an ugly grey box when the vm is starting up in place of the applet
What is needed is a cut down java "media" vm. It should:
Be no larger than the flash download of ~1.8MB
Have greatly improved startup time. On a modern pc it should be almost instantaneous.
Be fully upgradable to the "full" vm. For example if the full vm is ~7MB then if you have the media vm installed the full vm download should be ~1.8MB smaller
As the name implies it should be focused solely on rich media (steaming movies etc)
It should not cause the java icon to popup on the taskbar by default. It should be transparent to the user that java is running.
Should not display a grey box in place of the applet when starting up, the box should be black or non-existent.
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Not true, you should probably read a few tutorials. You can already replace that with an image or an animated image.Well I have not written any applets for a long time it is just what I am seeing out there. I have been developing java for over 10 years so I don't need to read any tutorials.
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I have iphone 5 ,i cut down bsnl 64k sim into nano and inserted it. everything is working except cellular data or 3g data, please help me

i have iphone 5 ,i cut down bsnl 64k sim into nano and inserted it. everything is working calling & messaging except cellular data or 3g data, please help me

Everything you need to know about the solution is written into the question you posed. Get a proper SIM.

Best Export Format for iDVD to cut down on multiplexing and processing

My processor is what it is and my Ram has been optimized. Is there some video/audio format/ bit rate that will require less time to convert and process?
I understand that MPEG2, mpeg4, H.264, avi, and all seem to take far too long. I prefer using FCPX and Wondershare to do my converting.
Also whenever I have a random burning error its almost always a “multiplexing error” so maybe if I make the “multiplexing” a little easier maybe I can prevent that headache.
Any thoughts about inve$ting in the fastest burners available? Isn’t the actual “burn” process the very last step that usually only takes about 2 minutes anyway?
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KidVid wrote:
My processor is what it is and my Ram has been optimized. Is there some video/audio format/ bit rate that will require less time to convert and process?
All depends on what format you need for what purpose. If you need a DVD it'll have to be MPEG-2 or for web use it'll have to be h.264. Other than that there are tons of codecs and containers available. All conversion takes time and to cut down on that time you will need a faster machine.
KidVid wrote:
Also whenever I have a random burning error its almost always a “multiplexing error” so maybe if I make the “multiplexing” a little easier maybe I can prevent that headache.
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KidVid wrote:
Any thoughts about inve$ting in the fastest burners available? Isn’t the actual “burn” process the very last step that usually only takes about 2 minutes anyway?
See the speed limit above.

Speed up/slow down clips

Hi
I must be missing a trick here. Does anyone know how to speed up/slow down clips in i-movie?
Any help appreciated,
thanks
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Did apple actually decide not to add these feature on IM08. If so why?
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