Re: Video clip trimming.

I trimmed a 1:30 video clip taken with my iPhone and saved it to a new folder in iPhoto. It shows as 11 seconds in iPhoto but when I go to upload it to share it, the video is showing as the full 1:30. I don't understand. I want to upload the 11 seconds only, not the 1:30. The 1:30 video does not exist in that folder so I do not understand this at all. Any ideas as to why this is happening? Thank you.

It might be worth adding the clip to a project in iMovie (it can be easily accessed via iPhoto Videos in iMovie's Event Library), then sharing from there.
Seeing as iPhoto's a photo cataloguing app first and foremost, it's not the most robust when it comes to handling video.

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I should also mention that I have another video in the picture-in-picture (rhythm guitar track, lead guitar track), so the two need to be perfectly in sync.
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OK I see the problem,
I've made some videoclips in the past (barbershop quartet), and have to admit that iMovie is limited.
As I'm from Holland, it's hard to me to give you an exact advise of what is and isn't possible in English (as all my menu's are in Dutch and not English), as it's also depends on what kind of footage you have and what you're trying to achieve. The only thing I can help you with is point out some directions you could dig into:
1. You may study the function of beatmarkers and all the possibilities to synchronize music to clips/beatmarkers.
2. As I mentiond earlier you can possible combine that with thwe functionalitty of the precisoon editor, you can make precis edits as wel for vidoe and audio (put apperntly you already studied that.
3. For the picture in picture there is no solution (as far as I know). You might experiment with "cutaway" and/or "next to each other" when it comes to inserting clips.
4. For the production of videopodcasts I used Garageband for fine tuning voice-overs and background music. In Garageband it is possible to make very precise edits on imported video tracks. I asume Logic has similar functionallity. This means you perhaps have to move back and forward video/audio from iMovie to Garageband (or Logic) and visa versa.
If that is all to much of a hassle (which I can imagine) perhaps Final Cut Pro X is you're only option.
Succes, sorry I cann't help you further.
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Hi everyone,
I have searched around and can't seem to find what I'm looking for.
My computer was running very slow and running out of memory to export movies.
After speaking to a friend, he suggested trimming down the clips to the relevant sections then export them as much smaller clips ready for the real edit.
Is there a set procedure for trimming down clips or do you use the raw files to edit with?
I hope this all makes sense.
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Quad AMD
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you should do everything humanly possible to make the pc you now have as fast and "lean" as possible for editing. check out hardware section and browse subjects about hard drives and settings and so on.
I have a mousey computer but added an internal hard drive ( 2 internal now ) so programs are on C and media cache is on the other internal. Then I also got an external graid (firewire 800 for me, but if you can use esata thats even better ) and I now use that for my source files..
the thing is, the more you spread the load around the faster it is ( indexing off on all drives )..
check out the threads on hardware and 'best setups' for editing ...there are hundreds of threads...but you do that and it will help you a lot. just have to do some reading and note taking and then work on the computer to do what you've learned.
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now scrub through stuff and bring what you want down to video level 1 which will be your final edit...
turn off all video and sound in sequences you're not currently using ( after you get done with cuts there ).
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Bridge is just a file browser. It doesn't open or edit anything in any form.
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Tried to trim a video clip for first time iOS 6 trimming in progress last 10 hours. Not responding cant access photos. Help

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Thank you so much!
It works!
I used this code...
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private function videoCompleteHandler(event:VideoEvent):void {
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Thank you Victoria;
Since posting I have discovered that QuickTime allows for trimming of clips. After trimming in QT the trimmed portion is only saved.
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Fix #1
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I've got a 14GB video clip in a iMovie file, and I want to cut and paste a small part of it into another file. When I try, the small clip still appears to be 14 GB and would take 130 minutes to paste into the new file. Is there any way to lighten up these clips so they can be moved quicker? I'm using a new MacBookPro.
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I take it video quality will remain the same. I'll try it out right away.
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A video clip import for a new project keeps showing up as a clip from an older project.

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