Re: Trimming quicktime file. Help!

Hi guys, Im doing some editing for a friend whose quicktime files are all 20GB plus, and am low on space on my harddrive, so cant copy them over and put them in final cut. Can anyone enlighten me on trimming quicktime clips and saving that specific trim in order to put on my harddrive, to then put into FC, as to not have to drag the whole clip onto my harddrive.
Many thanks
jim

Hi Gary,
It might be time to move on to DVDSP 4. I had a lot of trouble with DVDSP 3 and larger more complicated projects. I never got your particular problem but it always invovled the usability of particular projects. And I never really located a source to the problem.
One problem I had in the early days of DVDSP 3 was the quality of RAM (3 seemed particularly sensitive to this).

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