Editing raw video/saving individual clips

New to Premier Elements 10. Is there a way to save individual video clips after chopping up my raw video. Or should I be using another program? I simply want to convert a long video into shorter segments for my files and ease of future use. Thanks!

There are several methods for accomplishing this, and Steve's recommendation for SceneAlyzer is a good one, if one wants the longer Source File broken into "scenes."
When creating "sub-clips" * one must consider Handles, as if they edit too tightly, and then use those "sub-clips" in a Project, and apply Transitions, Handles will be necessary. This article goes into Handles in more detail: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/701768?tstart=60
Also, using a CODEC, that does either light compression, or lossless compression, will pay quality dividends, when one goes to edit those "sub-clips." This article goes into more detail, for some lossless CODEC's: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/875797?tstart=0
Good luck,
Hunt
* The term "sub-clips" is used here to denote shortened and edited Clips from a larger "master clip." Note: in Premiere Pro, and some other NLE (Non Linear Editor) programs, there is an official term Sub-Clips, that have a slightly different meaning, and function, within a Project. Similar, but different. Here, I am using the term in a slightly different fashion, hence the " marks, and lack of capitalization.

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Editing raw video and saving individual clips

New to Premier Elements 10. Is there a way to save individual video clips after chopping up my raw video. Or should I be using another program? I simply want to convert a long video into shorter segments for my files and ease of future use. Thanks!

You will find best advice over on the video forum. Most of us here are photographers.
Click on the link below and copy and paste your question again. Good luck.
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Editing and saving individual clips for import into iDVD

I've begun a large project digitizing many old family 8mm projector films. Each reel, varying in size from 3 to 20 min, was imported into iMovie HD 6 as individual clips. These clips are, in a sense, self contained movies. I want to use iMovie to mute the sounds, add a soundtrack, and make some visual adjustments. My goal is to create an iDVD project with several submenus based on location, in each menu will be a list of the reels (iMovie clips), that took place in each location.
I've figured out how to do everything except saving and exporting edited clips to iDVD. Since iMovie is set up to create one movie per project (the timeline represents one movie, right?), I can import individual clips into iDVD but they aren't edited. What I want to be able to do is drag one clip into the timeline, make my adjustments, save it, put it back with the other clips to be imported in iDVD, and repeat the process. Is this possible in iMovie? Should I get something else like Final Cut Express?

I gather that what you want to do is modify the clips and save them as self contained movies for eventual import into iDVD.
Edit your clip in iMovie, add your sound track, and then File/Export/compress movie for Full Quality to your desktop as a self contained Quicktime Movie. Each of these self contained Quicktime Movies can be dragged into your iDVD project by dragging them to the edge of the main iDVD menu window.

Saving Individual Clips in Premiere Elements 11

Hi all -
In Adobe Premiere Elements 11, after cutting a large video clip into many smaller clips and then renaming them, how do you go about saving each individual clip, so I can easily edit them? I feel like I've looked everywhere and can't seem to figure it out.
Thanks!!
Jerry

Jerry
My first impression is cannot do. But, let me think about this.
Two major tasks...
a. Even if we could get the "grouped" video/audio into Project Assets with a copy/paste insert with ClipMate
then the next challenge would be
b. How do we get the Preview Window with the Set In and Set Out points to deal with a grouped rather than linked video audio. It will not do that when the grouped video and audio are on the Timeline....we could do non Preview Window trimming at the Timeline level
Think it worthwhile to download ClipMate to see how far we would get for this purpose of
a. generating segments of grouped video and audio?
b. pasting them into Project Assets where they would function as source media in or out of folders there?
I suspect this is going to go the old fashion way of exporting the segments to a file saved to the computer hard drive and then bringing those segments back into a grand project for the final export..
ClipMate, I believe, is a Windows only program. What computer operating system are you running your Premiere Elements 11 on?
More later.
ATR

Saving Individual Clips onto a DVD R

I am VERY new to the Mac world. From what I understand is that you can archive your videos without putting them into the iMovie Event library (so it doesnt slow down iMovie).
What I want is to have a backup copy of ALL my clips that are currently on iMovie ONTO A DVD R. Can anyone help me out on how to do this? I just want to have the video clips on a DVD R as an extra backup copy.

Welcome to Macs!
Be sure to take advantage of all the appropriate Apple tutorials for the applications you want to use. You can find them on Apple's Support site. Search for each one, do the tutorial and you will begin to feel more comfortable using your Mac's apps.
Do you mean to have archive DVD disks to retrieve your iMovie videos when you insert the DVDs into your computer, so that you can edit them?
Or, do you mean to have a DVD of videos that will play in a set-top DVD player?
If you just want to store your videos as archives, follow the instructions in Mac Help, under 'Burning your own CDs or DVDs,' and select the topic "Burning a CD or DVD" which will tell you how to burn a back up DVD.
If you have your iMovie already in an iDVD project, but want to archive it to work on it at a later time, ot move it to another computer or drive with all its project media, follow these instructions:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6723.html
Or, if you are completely finished with editing your iMovie and have put it into an iDVD project and either already burned a DVD disk, or are ready to, create a disk image file of your iDVD project from within iDVD. Just select "Save as disk image file" and the process will begin. It looks like the burn process and will take just as long, but the end result is a disk image file, not a burned DVD disk.
The advantages of the disk image file are that it is usually smaller than the media used in it, it is self-contained, and it can be moved to another drive or computer. It is a backup of an iDVD project, and you can burn DVD disks from it using Disk Utility, even after deleting the original projects, since, unlike iDVD, all the media is actually encoded within the disk image file itself. Saving just the dif will save drive space, since you won't need to save the original iDVD projects and all the media used in them.

I shared my project and saved it as .mov but when i reopen the fcp the project is one big clip, and now i cant re-edit the video, cant see all the clips, just one big clip,,,pls help, i need to make some changes to the project..thanx

I shared my project and saved it as .mov but when i reopen the fcp the project is one big clip, and now i cant re-edit the video, cant see all the clips, text's, effects, etc..... just one big clip,,,pls help, i need to make some changes to the project..thanx

Hi Stephen, thanx...
Yes, we are talking about FCP X...this is the thing:
I worked on a project a few days ago and went to share - export movie.
Today, i opened the FCP again, to make some changes, and when i enter to the project, it shows me as one big clip.....i dont see it says compound clip....and i tried anyways pressing break appart clips...but nothing....could it be that i made it compound before exporting it..? if so how can i recover the un-compound version >?
I tried to import the saved .mov file, but it opens the same....as one long clip...
Pls help...thanx.

Raw video clip transfer

I would like to be able to capture video from my camera on to mac computer and then copy raw video onto disc for use in a different editing program
Reason i am working with camera that has a firewire and I cannot download to my PC but I woud like to usae the footage from this camera in a movie that I will be making on the PC
This brings up another question how do you achive raw video in case you ever wanted to go back and rearrange the videos i.e. take out all the birthday parties and make a birthday party video of several years
My Pc lets me just copy to disc I can't believe mac doesnot allow same
what am I missing
Is this possible
Thanks

There are two ways to do it (maybe more):
1. Edit your movie to the timeline and then choose File->Export. Select Quicktime from the top row and then Full Quality from the compress to pop-up menu.
or
2. After you capture all your footage, find the project file in the Finder, right-click it and choose Show Package Contents... then open Media folder to find all your clips unedited. Copy them to where ver you want.
The format will be .dv which apple calls DV Stream. You still may need to do some conversion if your PC doesn't handle DV Stream files.

How can I edit a video clip in PE and take it out of PE to use elsewhere?

I want to add edited video clips from PE to use in my photoshop slideshow. I would also like to use the edited clips in another programme, but I only get a file that can only be opened in PE. I have PE 4 and Photoshop 6.on a desktop PC using Vista.
Message was edited by: Mellieha

Many thanks for your reply.
I have video thumbnails from my video camera in My Videos folder. I would like to edit them individualy and return them to my folder as thumbnails again.
I hope I have explained my needs properly. I have made a slideshow including video on photoshop, but I get lost with it on PremE so I have kept to the job on PhotoEl. It seems to work for me apart from the problem of editing the video clips. I have added audio to the slideshow, but when it gets to a video clip I lose the video's sound. I would like to keep that rather than the added audio (music) that plays over the stills.
As you have no doubt realised, I am a beginner and a pensioner. Would senility be an excuse?
Thanks again,
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Saving edited RAW files in iphoto

Hi I have searched the forum but cant find an answer that works for me and I have also read this
http://http://barbarabrundage.com/2010/11/29/using-photoshop-elements-9-with-iphoto/
Basically I am opening my Raw images in PSE 10 as my external editor from Iphoto 11. My question is what is the best way to save it back to iphoto?
I have tried the instructions in the above link and set PSE 10 to 'save over current file' in the savings preferences but when I clicked save image after editing in camera raw it opened the save as menu
Should I click on open image from camera raw to open in the editor and then save it from there for it to update in iphoto? I clicked open image for an edit yesterday then saved to desktop as a psd file and imported to iphoto which worked
Apologies I am very new to this, any help would be great
Chris

Ok thanks, is there any way to keep the format of the file then and save into iphoto as per the linked article? Would I have to keep it as a NEF file??
Also when I've edited a Raw photo if I am going to save it to desktop and import it back to iphoto what file type should I be saving it as? I used PSD last time is this right?
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Why are my video edits not being saved on Photoshop CS6?

Why are my video edits not being saved on Photoshop CS6?
I made a TON of edits in a video group, then duplicated that group into another file... and all my edits are gone.
I spent hours working on this, so please let me know what the hell happened and how I can make sure it never happens again...
also--why would CS6 come with such a devastating feature?!?! Who came up with this???

Welcome to the forum.
I did not see any reference to Save, Save_As, or Save_As_a_Copy. Did you use one of those?
Good luck,
Hunt

Can you apply fx to individual clips after a multicamera edit? CS6

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Thanks! I didn't want to go through the whole process and find out I had to do it all over again.
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Why when almost completed editing a video on imovie have half the clips developed narrow screen aspect exhibiting grey band top and bottom of each clip?

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Tried to duplicate the situation.
Most probably I got it wrong but when adding in
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After editing a video clip in FCX that was shot in 60fps how do I convert that clip to 24fps for publishing?

There is only a limited amount of Compressor instruction available unless you purchase a subscription to something like Lynda.com or a tutorial from Ripple or Larry Jordan.
My advice to everyone who is interested in learning about Compressor is to read the first two chapters of the user manual – on basics and workflows. Those should provide enough of an understanding to cover the majority of things users need Compressor to accomplish. Of course there is plenty more for those who want to explore.
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Russ

Using "Archive All" with individual clips?

When importing video from my AVCHD camera, I like to use the "Archive All" option at the bottom of the Import window. That way I can quickly just transfer the raw files to a hard drive and import the clips I want for editing into iMovie later.
Ideally I'd like to archive individual clips in this same manner. Typically my camera will have clips from several unrelated events I need to archive. I'd like to archive the clips from each event into separate archives. However it seems like the only option is "Archive All", which puts everything on the camera into a single archive. If I immediately imported the video from my camera after each event I shot this wouldn't be such a problem. But sometimes I forget or shoot multiple events in one day, so this functionality would be useful.
Just to make sure, I tried selecting individual clips and then doing "Archive All", but as I expected it ignores the checkboxes and just archives everything.
Is there any way to archive individually selected clips?

That makes sense, but my problem is finding the events in the archive files before importing into iMovie. Right now I give the archives long names like "<data>, eventName1, eventName2, etc.>". It would be a little cleaner to have a single archive per event instead. Being able to select clips would also allow me to not archive clips I don't want, saving space.
It's not a huge deal, it just seems like it would have been easy functionality to add, but I guess it's not high on the priority list. Maybe next version...

Importing and organizing raw video footage - options

greetings-
Looking for a better solution, if available, for importing & organizing raw video. I am using imovie for now. Soon to switch to FC express. After much exploring & learning on my new machine (recent convert), I’m a bit frustrated on how it video is handled.
Please correct any of these that I’ve got wrong, but it appears that:
Importing video (from DV camera) with programs provided on my machine can only be done through imovie and idvd.
Importing video through these programs requires creating a project, and importing the video to that project.
Then that imported video is associated with that project.
So I want to take the imported clips (say from imovie), and organize them archiving, use on other projects, backup, etc. I know that I can find the actually video files by control clicking on the project in finder, hit show package, and get to "clip 1, clip 2...clip 55". This represents the raw footage, but now I’ve got say 55 separate clips, for just one import.
I’d like to effectively organize my various raw videos by year/event etc. So that when working a project, a can pull in the different footage that I want to use. For instance, I previously imported and organzied video footage with my PC editing software, and now, thankfully, I can just bring that various footage from the external drive into Imovie and edit. If I want to do a project and grab some footage from 04, 05, 06, it's all right there.
Is there a better solution for import & organizing my raw video clips more efficiently with imovie or idvd?? Or perhaps another program. Such that I’ve got the 1/2 hr of video "Christmas 05", one file (not 40 seperate clips), saved, and can pull it into projects as needed in the future... Ideally maintaining the clip breaks. Am I asking to much from apple? How do you all import/manage/save your imported video?
Much thanks for any feedback!
20" G5 core duo Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Ciao Rubbersoul,
unfortunately iMovie doesn't allow you to rename the clips (other than within the project), so if you want to label them for future reference, you'll have to do that outside iMovie.
I personally save the best shots from each project to an external hard drive using the following method:
• simply drag the desired clips from the iMovie project to the desktop
• organize the clips by creating the appropriate folders (e.g. by subject, time, etc.), so you'll find your footage faster
• rename the clips within the folders. If you don't need to give each clip a separate name, you can use tools like Renamer4Mac (http://www.power4mac.com) to batch-rename the clips.
• transfer and organize your folders/clips on the external (Firewire) hard disk. You can do that manually or by using media browsers like iDive to organize and view your clips. iDive is a digital hub that can help you to keep not only your video but also music and pic collections under control, and it integrates with iMovie and FCE/FCP. Check it out here:
http://www.aquafadas.com/idive-digital-video/index.php
Always remember that DV eats up a lot of disk space and don't forget to back up your footage to tape.
spero che ti sia d'aiuto
mish

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