IMovie11. Rejecting a segment of a clip.

I am working on iMovie11 and I have alot of long clips that I want to edit down in events. When I reject a segment of a clip, I move the rejected to trash but it takes the whole clip with it and not just the segment. Is this normal? Is there a way around it? Does FCP do this?

First, you don't need to send the clip to Motion to stabilize it. FCP will do the same thing with the SmoothCam filter. Second, both the Smoothcam filter in FCP and the Stabilize behavior in Motion get applied to the entire clip - so you'd need to export the segment and reimport first.

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Hi, I'm new to FCP/Motion and I was wondering if there's a way to apply the stabilization effect to only specific segments of a clip? I tried using markers and trying to add keyframes, but I either wasn't able to add them, or they didn't really work as I'd expected. Is it possible to do what I'm asking for without having to splice the clip in FCP and then send out the pieces to Motion?

First, you don't need to send the clip to Motion to stabilize it. FCP will do the same thing with the SmoothCam filter. Second, both the Smoothcam filter in FCP and the Stabilize behavior in Motion get applied to the entire clip - so you'd need to export the segment and reimport first.

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Hello!
I am trying to set keyframes on a segment of a clip using the pen tool on time line. When I set the first keyframe, one also appears at the start of the clip and when I set the second keyframe, another appears at the end of the clip? There is a thin blue horizontal line the full length of the clip. Whatever speed change I make on the dialogue box, overrides the segment settings. I have already carried out this successfully on a different clip.
Regards,
DG

I gather you're adding speed keyframes. That's the way the application works. Because variable speed changes effect the entire media, not just the marked In and Out in the timeline, keyframes are added at the beginning and end of the clip. The blue line in the Clip Keyframe graph is correct. It indicates a motion keyframe has been applied. Speed is a motion keyframe.
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How do you 'unreject' a clip?

this is maddening...how can I 'unreject' a segment of a clip?
and how do I delete rejected clips?! space saver doesn't allow me to...it says'unable to reject clips'...ahh!

When video from supported still camera is in iPhoto, iMovie can edit it without any conversion. However, iMovie will not delete any clips that are "owned" by another application such as iPhoto.
If you want you can take the video out of iPhoto and import it into iMovie with the File/Import command. It will then be in iMovie and you can reject certain clips.
For some formats, iMovie may not be able to handle the file. In this case, you need to convert the file to an imovie compatible format before importing. You can generally do this with MPEG Streamclip, but if you open your video in QuickTime Player and click command-I, the inspector will open. You can look next to the word "Format:" and report back what audio and video formats are contained in your video. Than we might recommend some specific conversion (or no conversion).

FCP clip time remapping / speed ramping question re realtime after changes?

Hello All,
My first post here! I tried searches for this topic but didn't find....
I wasted hours today messing with the keyframe editor to try and ramp parts of a single clip... first time using this feature and couldn't follow the manual! way too difficult to grasp without fluency in 'techygeekconfusic' lingo. Anyway, I don't think the topic was covered from what I read in my version of the manual.
So I went straight for the keyframe editor graphic display under the clip in timeframe and put in a few points with the pen tool (using time graph blue line) and seemed to be going great until I realised that the segments in the single clip (ten minutes long) that I was adjusting were affecting what came after - ie slowing down the remainder of the clip. And that was all I could get from my manual that this happened without any explanation about stopping it happen by letting the outpoint of the clip readjust automatically for the changes made to that part of clip so that altered clip would be shorter in timeline...
I then tried again from the start but noting the minus time on pentool arrow when I slid each keyframe point back and subtracting it from the duration in motion tab and that seemed to work for a while...
but God bless my little brain! what I really wanted to happen - for the blasted thing to readjust itself automatically after I had adjusted a segment of the clip so that the remaining non-adjusted part would play in realtime with a new shorter outpoint in the sequence timeline - just couldn't be realised in my little brain or in the 'user friendly' control panels of FCP.
I tried to get hold of the 'bezier' point at the end of clip and drag forward at the same rate as each change but could'nt get hold of it! I tried to put two points with pen tool at same time but couldn't isolate them from one another to create four points for adjustment without having still frames between.. blah blah.. I tried to get snapping to the pen tool points for further control but couldn't... duh!
Please! how do you do it! obviously I have limited intelligence but I need to do this now. I want to adjust the 10 minute clip (DVCproHD 720p24N format - not that this should matter as my sequence settings are same) adjust the clip at maybe 10 different places so that it ramps in speed to cover up some boring areas and then back to normal speed after the changes - not back to some slo mo **! speed.
I tried cutting with the razor tool to isolate and that didn't work either and other analogue brain type stuff ok I know you are laughing at me now but please help?!! I'm pretty new to this stuff, give me the old reliable Steenbeck and a few real bins and strips of film hanging on clothes pegs and I'll be ok...
Help will be most gratefully appreciated!!!!!!!!
Barra
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Andy did a very good job explaining the underlying problem with the time remap tool.
The key thing to remember is the first and last frame are fixed in time. If you speed up the clip, time after that keyframe will have to slow down to compensate. Imagine the clip is a rubber band that has been cut so that it is a long string-like form. Now imagine anchoring each end of it with a push pin to a board. If you grab a point on the band and pull it toward one of the pins, the part of the band on the side you are pulling away from the anchor will stretch (run slower) and the side you are pulling toward will bunch up (run faster). But, when all is done, the start and end will still be at the fixed points.
The way I've worked through this is to make a general guesstimate of how long the clip will be once all the ramping is complete. For example, I want the clip to start at normal (100%) speed and ramp up to 300% and back down to 100%. I might start with a clip having a constant speed of 200% and then change it to variable and play with it. The key concept is if you can get the overall LENGTH to where it should be, the rest works out fine.
I have repeatedly asked in the FEEDBACK/New Features page that they add a toggle to the speed/time remap tools. This toggle should allow you decide whether the playback TIME for the clip should be fixed or flexible.
For example, if you were working with a 4 second clip and wish to slow it down by 50% -
If 'Maintain Time' is toggled ON, when you decrease the speed of clip by 50% - the clip will still play for 4 sec (but will show only half the total frames).
If the toggle is OFF, the 4 sec clip will now play for 8 sec and will display all the frames.
Where this concept becomes really powerful is when it's applied to time remap. If you have 'Maintain time' toggled OFF, as you adjust speed, the end point of the clip will float in time. If you increase the speed, the overall time of the clip will shrink. If you slow it down, the end point moves out in time.
We need to keep asking ...
x

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In order to apply the same Camera Raw filter to every segment of a clip I was going to split multiple times, I converted the whole clip to a Smart Object, applied my Camera Raw filter settings, and then split the clip and deleted some portions. Now I want to make certain portions of those clips slow-motion, but even if I right-click on the right side of the layer and select "Clear Smart Filters", all I see when I right-click on the clip in the timeline are the motion options; I can no longer change the speed or the audio. Is there a way to do this without having to make all the cuts in the beginning, changing the speed and the audio, and then having to go back and convert each individual segment into a smart object and then apply the same ACR filter to each one?

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Thanks for addressing this question. I tried it and see that the embedded file is the entire clip that I started with, not the trimmed version that I turned into a SO, but at least I could go back and make a change that way in a pinch.
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Having BIG problems capturing DV footage which began late last Fall. While performing a capture (assigned clips) footage would go down for a few seconds then would freeze (picture only, the audio continued) then after several seconds the picture would "catch up" and continue.
Found a solution here in the FCP forum where I had my firewire drives "ignored" by SPOTLIGHT by listing them in the privacy selection. Worked and moved on.
I have a project now where the problem has come up again. Once again during a clip capture it did what it did before - but now it ignores the assigned in point (audio but no video and almost consistently delaying it by 9 seconds into the capture) then freezes (at the assigned outpoint - sometimes) then continues to play on (audio only) then resumes (again catching up) then stops announcing a SUCCESSFUL CAPTURE. When the clip is selected to preview it plays back from the incorrect in point, freezes, then plays until the catch up - with now the audio out of sync. More craziness because now the log information now has changed: the MEDIA START & END information is not what was inputed so the DURATION TIME is now different and sometimes it adds a MARK OUT point (!?). I rarely use the CAPTURE NOW function but even trying that the footage still freezes up and goes out of sync.
I worked the SPOTLIGHT routine again with no change. Have completely optimized my system drive and external hard drives using DISKWARRIOR 4.1
I accept all the auto software up dates that come through UPDATER and see that I received a updated Quicktime version 7.5 on 13 June 08. I also noticed that I don't have CLASSIC OS 9 supported and seemed to have read here about something about FIREWIRE DRIVERS that maybe missing?
Was thinking of upgrading to 10.5 to see if that helps - but unsure about my FCP version/compatability...
So, here I sit frustrated since I have used FCP (which I LOVE) for quite a few years with great success - this is crazy! OF course, I have a project which deadline is looming!
Any ideas?
Much appreciation..
Here's my computer stats:
G4 Powerbook
OS 10.4.11
FCP 5.0.4
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4-Firewire Drives with 20gigs of space available

So far have done a workaround to digitize my DV elements through iMovie. Not pretty. I string together the selected/import clips (in this case from interviews), assemble them in sequential order on the time line with small breaks of black in between, then export the timeline as DVCPRO/DV-NTSC quicktime file. Take that file into my FCP then segment out the clips on the time line, make each segment an independent clip so that I can name them. Not pretty but it works - miss having the logging data going through FCP log and capture.
Still waiting for any other solution to my situation - thanks!
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Wow ... How to edit Event Browser Clips in Your Events

Maybe it's just me, but this seems very useful. I recently saw a discusson on the "Open in Timeline" command. There's not a lot of documentation on it, but if you can use it to open an event browser clip in the timeline. The video and audio of the clip are detached from each other. Hafken and some others have noted that you could use this feature to sync audio to the video if there were sync problems. I agree.
But it started me thinking ... what else could be done to the clip. I took the Blade tool and cut off large amounts of the clip off the start and end then deleted the ends. I then applied a couple of effects with pronounced amounts so I could track whether they "took" in the event browser clip or not. To my surprise not only did the clip change in start and end and duration due to the Blade tool use, but also the effects remained. I used the Left Arrow at the upper left of the timeline window to back out of the timeline edit as if I were backing out of a compound clip, and then clicked on the clip in the event browser. All the edited changes I had made were now on that clip. It had changed the length, start and end points and the nature of the video, etc ... Now that clip was a part of my event browser without having to render/share it and import the rendered version to get a clip I wanted.
I know many have asked about how they could get just the parts of the clip that they wanted and make that the clip that remained in their event browser. We know we can save segments of a clip as favorites, but they are still all in the same clip. So we cannot simply drag those segments onto the timeline. It seems the Open in Timeline command can be used quite well to change the clips in the event browser to be just the parts that we want to keep in the event browser (you might have to duplicate the clip to edit out the multiple segments). Furthermore, we can add processing to them and have them "saved" to the event browser for future use as building blocks.
Is it just me ... did I miss this functionality all along ... or is this something that is really useful?
stephen

I agree it can be a useful feature in certain circumstances. The most obvious to me being the audio/video "sync" and creation of "subclip" equivalents.
I haven't tested it yet, but if you can put content from the timeline into an empty Event Browser compound clip, that could also be very useful, allowing an easier way to reuse content across projects as opposed to copy/paste from/to projects. I wonder what would happen if you paste content from a clip that is from a different Event.
I know many have asked about how they could get just the parts of the clip that they wanted and make that the clip that remained in their event browser. We know we can save segments of a clip as favorites, but they are still all in the same clip. So we cannot simply drag those segments onto the timeline.
Actually you can do this using favorites. After you have marked your favorite sections, in the Event Browser, you can just "Show Favorites" (control-F). Now all the favorite sections look like separate clips which you can individually edit into the timeline (either via keyboard or drag/drop).
I think using favorites/keywords to identify the parts you want to keep is preferable to the Open in Timeline use-blade-tool approach; even though it is non-destructive regarding the actual media on disk, it is destructive in the sense that you no longer have access to what you remove unless you re-mport it. In most cases, it is just better to hide that unwanted media rather than make it gone forever.

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I can make smaller clip segments from the clips in iMovie using the "split video at playhead" feature. I then place those new segments in the clip section on the right in iMovie.
But when I move those new segments to a drop zone in iDVD the entire original clip shows up.
How can I get only the new, smaller segment into the drop zone?
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OK
May be I was to shallow in answering. I meant making from original material
the new teasers - with as little extra captured material as possibly.
But after some thinking I probably would try another way:
• In the original movie. USE the in resp. out-points (the small two triangles)
under the line in Canvas/Viewer under the play-head triangle (far left end).
• Select the desired part
• Export out as QuickTime.mov (full quality), selected part ONLY and Selfcontaining.
Now close iMovie and drop this new movie into the drop-zone in iDVD.
This should be a working solution.
Sorry for not figured this out from the start.
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Need to remove video clip and save audio track.

We are trying to remove a segment of video clip and save the audio track that goes with it. We intend to fill that open segment with transitions of still photos, all the while allowing the narrator, who has now been "clipped" to keep speaking.
We are using CS3 Premier Pro.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for your wisdom...
Mary M.
Yellowstone National Park.

Mary,
I find that just Alt-clicking on the Video and hitting Delete to be the quickest method. That does exactly the same as Unlinking, with two keystrokes - Atl-click Video, Del key.
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I have two imported DV clips.
- One is 45 minutes long
- One is about 15 minutes long
I want to break these two captured files up into "chunks" so I can edit them in the timeline without even referencing the original DV clips.
Reason: editing nightmare I am trying to resolve.
- I know how to use "mark dv start/stop" in each DV clip to segment my DV clips into my original "shots" on DV tape.
- I know how to make "subclips" from the 'segments".
What I don't know how to do is to make these new clips TOTALLY independant of the source footage because my edits are getting completely messed up. Someone suggested I make the new segment clips "independant" clips, but I can't seem to find that option anywhere.
Any suggestions?
thanks

Thank you ALL!
These are some of the best answer I have got so far, but let me run a few things by you and see what you think...
My original, orignal question was something like "How do I import and break up my video so I can edit my shots on the timeline?"
My real goal, as you might guess, is to make FCP do the grunt work so I can get my "shots" from the DV camera into the timeline so I can cut them, move them around, synch them to audio etc. That's why FCP is called a non-linear editor. Right?
I really don't want to have to export and then reimport a bunch of video clips because that's a lot of work for ME. I know that you can do this, and I know how to do it, but come on! I want to make FCP do that work, and theorietically it should be able to do this.
From digging around on the internet, and from asking multiple questions on this forum, here is the workflow I have peiced together. (I am not sure if it will work yet because I still have to test it...)
I think the complete answer is:
1) Capture video to a project (the whole tape)
2) Select the master clip (the whole tape) in the browser and choose "Mark/ DV Start/Stop" (just like you said)
3) Select the resulting video "segments" in the browser and choose "Make Clip" from the modify menu (this converts the original captured segments into subclips)
4) Select the resulting video subclips and drag them to the timeline for editing (I am not sure if I also need to "Remove Clip Limitations" from the subclips as well, but at least I know where to look if my 5 steps don't work)
5) Right click on the video subclips in the timeline and choose "make independant clip"
The bottom line is that I am trying to get FCP to do the grunt work of keeping track of my video ins/outs, segments, subclips and independant clips without me having to manage 100 files on my hard drive in the project folder! The whole point of NLE is to let the computer figure out how to arrange and render all of your stuff based on information that is stored in the FCP file.
Thoughts?

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I am making a long movie and I believe I have used some clips more than once. How is the best way to check and make sure I only use them one time?
Thanks,
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Wayne,
In the Project Panel, you have Video Usage. Unfortunately, as one can have many Instances of a Source Clip, and those can have different In & Out Points, just pure Usage does not mean that you have used the same Clip multiple times, as each Instance can be quite different.
Now, in PrPro's (later versions), if one Rt-clicks on an Asset in the Project Panel, they can Reveal in Sequence, and see each use. I do not know if later versions of PrE have added that, or similar. And again, because a Clip (or segment of a Clip) is used multiple times, it could well be just a different Trim from the "master" Clip.
The only way that I can think of in PrE (at least up to the versions that I have installed to test) would be to step through the Timeline with PageDn, noting the file names. I would probably toggle the Clip Display to Name, and not All Frames, so as to not be distracted by the Frame Displays, and only to see the Clip Names. This will obviously be an exercise in memory.
Hopefully, later versions of PrE have added something like the Reveal in Project (PrE does not have Sequences, so only one Timeline - the Project's), and one can use that to see all Instances. You would still need to determine if those Instances contain the same Trim Points, which would mean that they WERE duplicated.
Good luck, and let's let a user with the newest version comment on Reveal in Project, or similar.
Hunt
PS - In the Project Panel, one can click+drag on the Video Usage Column header/title and move it closer to the Clip Name. That might keep one from having to scroll about the Project Panel.

IMovie11. Rejecting a segment of a clip.

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