Spliting a clip

How can I split a clip that I transfer from vhs through digi cam to my computer. I have a 52 minute clip and want to split the clip to three parts or more.

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Clip Splitting

I am havin problems spliting a clip. I don't find a split clip button nor the scissors. When I open tools it goes soft and unusable.

Willie615
What version of Premiere Elements are you using and on what computer operating system is it running?
The answers will be in the details.
While we await the details, I will guess that you have Premiere Elements 11 on Windows.
If that is what you have, where are you - in the Expert or Quick workspace.
If you are in the Expert workspace, look for the Timeline Indicator (red stem, blue head). Highlight the clip that you want to split. Then hold your mouse cursor over the stem of the Timeline Indicator. About half way down that stem you should see a tab. The tab shows the scissors shape. Click on that to split the clip at the place of the Timeline Indicator.
Another approach would be to move the Timeline Indicator to the spot to be cut, and then use the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+K.
Same principles are involved in doing this in the Quick workspace.
Please review. If any questions on this or clarification needed, please do not hesitate to ask.
I do not understand your problem with the Tools. So, we may have to go further into that with more details.
Thanks.
ATR

Re: Trying to spilt up a imported movie to export to several disc.

Okay I've managed to import a old home movies into i Movie 6 and have a large movie 33gigs i've been able break down the film into smaller segments ( I thought) the last 3 clips are all the same size ( 5.33gigs) even though they are only 4 min in duration. I'm i missing something ?
I started importing several 10 min clips and spliting the clips and creating a new movie. All was well until i thought to import the last 30 min and then Split up the time line. into smaller clips. the new clips are still to large to copy to a dvd as a data file
Thank you for any help

Splitting a clip into two parts does not split its source file. The source file — which iMovie creates when you import the video from the camera — always remains the same length, normally the length of the scene you shot.
When you split a clip in two, iMovie simply adjusts the two clips' pointers to the source file. The first clip might point to frame 1 of the file, for example, while the second clip might point to a frame somewhere in the middle of the file.
When iMovie displays the size of a clip, it shows you the size of its source file, not the size of the clip. So your 5.5GB file is probably about 25 minutes long.
There is no way to make a source file smaller; iMovie's non-destructive editing feature makes that impossible, for it always let us restore a clip to the original length. To do that, iMovie must preserve the file intact. That lets us recover a clip if we screw up.
One solution for the file-is-too-big-to-burn-a-DVD woes is to export each part of your split clip to its own Full Quality movie. Select the clip, then in the export dialog check the box "Share selected clips only". You can import that file back into the iMovie project if you like, or simply burn it to a DVD if that serves your purpose.
Note that iMovie 6 has a feature that lets us bypass this whole problem. Instead of importing very long scenes — i.e. with large files — use iMovie preferences to limit the length of a scenes to three minutes or the duration you prefer. The project has more clips, but each has its own (much smaller) file. That means you can discard those clips to recover that disk space, or burn them to a DVD.
Karl

Spliting clips in FCE.

Dear members:
How can a clip be split in two or more clips using FCE ?
I have just recently moved to FCE from iMovie and this was a rather simple procedure to accomplish in iMovie. I have searched but haven't been able to find instructions on how to do it.
Thank you in advance,
Joseph Chamberlain

Hi, Piero:
Thank for the many pointers and helpful tips you shared. I have found them extremely helpful. I do have some other questions:
I understand your point about the lack of ability to free up unused disk
space in FCE, while in iMovie it is standard and easy practice. I think this is
the result of the FCE design approach: a cut down version of FCP where the
FCP Media Manager (that to my knowledge addresses this issue) is
completely removed... while a simpler iMovie-like subset of its functions
should have been left in FCE.
I would be willing to consider an upgrade to FCP if this will address the limitations I have found in FCE. However, it would be important for me to be able to import all the footage I have already captured in FCE into FCP. Is it possible for FCP to import projects directly from FCE in a simple manner ? Do you know if Apple offers an upgrade path for FCE owners to move up to FCP or Final Cut Studio ?
Anyway, the answer to your question: would it be possible to capture the
footage in iMovie and then transfer it to FCE ? is yes, as long as you accept
some limits and take some precautions.
Limits:
- no time code is recorded by iMovie; as a result FCE won't be able to
recapture project in the future, if this is a point for you;
- if you simply import iMovie clips into FCE, in FCE you are forced to render
all audio before any editing.
In order to avoid audio rendering you must first convert the .dv clips (as
imported from iMovie) into the .mov format that is native to FCE: you can
do it with QuickTime Pro, MPEG Streamclip or iMovie itself using the
Export/Movie to QuickTime Movie (NOT DV stream) and applying the
correct compression (DV-PAL or DV-DVCPRO/NTSC), frame rate (25 or
29,97) and audio options (uncompressed/linear PCM, stereo, 48 kHz, 16
bit).
Piero
The solution above sounds very time consuming and I would prefer to maintain the timecode in the captured footage. From your explanation it seems FCP with its media manager would be the perfect solution to address my individual needs.
Thanks again for your help and suggestions.
Joseph

How to edit a multiple audio video clip on Premiere

Hello everybody
Maybe this is a dumb question, I'm sorry if I'm asking what is obvious for you, but I swear I tried to find on the web and on this forum, but I couldn't find anything.
Well, I made a video using a screen capture software called Dxtory, that provides me the ability to record my PC screen, with multiple audio tracks.
Ok, now I have a 15gb avi file. When I open this file in the Media Player Classic, I can play one or both channels. The first channel is the original audio captured from my PC. Every audio generated by my PC is in this track. The second track is my voice, with my commentaries. I have all of this in one single file. They are not splited. It's just one file.
Then when I import into Premiere, the software just recognize the video track and the first audio track. I can't find the second, with my voice.
I know I can split the clip into 3 files (1 video and 2 audios) but it would take longer. I just want to drop the file on Premiere and edit the audio volumes quickly, because when I talk I would like to low the volume of the PC audio.
Now, the question: Is there a way to Premiere recognize both tracks in this single file? How?
Thanks in advance for any help.

I'm actually surprised that Pr can import this at all--the video is Xvid. Maybe it's some variant that Pr's importers can handle, as Jeff suggested. I dunno--it doesn't play well for me, regardless, and I'm not going to install the Dxtory codec to find out.
Anyway, to the matter at hand: while AVIs can, apparently, contain multiple audio tracks, Pr's importers are limited to a single track. However, Pr has other importers than can handle multiple audio tracks. QuickTime--which is a wholly different process--supports multiple audio tracks, as does MXF (some flavors). However, Xvid in QuickTime (which is feasible) won't import in Pr (at least on a PC), and Xvid won't go into an MXF file at all; that means you'd have to transcode. Personally, this would be my choice--but I found that the original clip played back pretty terribly, so that would be why I'd go that route.
Additionally, you could extract the second audio track to a separate WAV file, import both the AVI and WAV, and then use the Merge Clips feature to marry them together as one pseudo-clip. Not perfect, but it would work. The benefit is that you don't re-encode anything.
So, I've got solutions for both the re-encode/MXF option (my preference) and the AVI/WAV option. Here's proof of the MXF (transcoded video to XDCAMHD422 50Mbps) with four audio channels (stereo must be split to dual mono):
At the end of the day, these (or a variation of them) are your only options. Pr simply won't import multiple audio tracks (even dual mono) in an AVI container. Let me know if you're interested in either of the solutions.

Trouble Exporting movie with Media Encoder, weird clip sizes and errors

I'm using Premiere Pro CS4 on a Windows XP Professional with 2gb RAM and 1.6GHz. I'm trying to export a short movie (2.5 minutes) with no audio. It is just a bunch of stitched together videos imported from 1280x 1024. I'm sizing them into 720 x 480. I get very poor video quality unless I use uncompressed formats, so I am using an Uncompressed AVI with UYVY Codec and 1.0 square pixels.
1st problem: I get an error running more than around 35-50seconds:
The Operation was interrupted by user
- Source File: C:\DOCUME~1\imurphy\LOCALS~1\Temp...
- Output File: C:\Documents and Settings\imurphy\My Documents...
- Preset Used: Custom
- Video: 720x480, 25 [fps], Progressive, Quality 100
- Audio:
- Bitrate:
- Encoding Time: 00:05:03
7/15/2009 1:18:56 PM : Encoding Failed
Error compiling movie.
Unknown error.
Its very consistent with having this error. I'm pretty sure there is plenty of room for the files, it only gets up to around 2.5gb. I can watch the movie up to where the error occurs and there is no problem.
2nd: I tried spliting the video up into 4 different files and the last clip won't match the others. I export all of them the same way, with 1.0 aspect ratio and the first 3 come out saying .9091NTSC. The last one will say it is 1.0 ratio if I do it the same way or 0.9091 NTSC if I change it, but either way, it will come out wider that the other clips (they will all still have black space on sides).

Read through these documents:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/332/332331.html
http://premierepro.wikia.com/wiki/Error:Error_compiling_movie
-Jeff

How to save split clips

After "Split Clip"ing a video scene, how do I save the individual clips as separate files on my hard drive?

A.T. Romano....
I'm using PE 4. The original source are 20+ years of video tapes. Some are 8mm up to 2 hours in length. Some are DV tapes of an hour in length. I'm using PE 4 "Split Clip" function to split these captured videos into varies lengths. These are home videos so most average a few min in length. But some can be as long as 30+min or as shorter than a minute.
In creating the project, the project settings ar NTCS-DV-Standard 48 KHZ
Wine Snob....
I deselected "recompress" and the rendering time went down to 4:1 (Four minutes video: 1min rendering) just as you suggested. Am I losing anything (picture quality) by deselecting "recompress"?
All.....
I'm Spliting/saving these 20+ years of video thinking this is the best way to preserve, catalog, index these videos. But I'm open to other suggestions or better ideas. Ideally, it would be nice to have 20+ years of video saved that is searchable by things like date, persons, events, etc...
Paul

Partner application and web clipping.

Hi All,
I am trying to add an external application (say my.yahoo.com) to a webclipping and its throwing the below error in the application log.
WC-517 : SSL handshake failed with the url ...
I have checked the file ca-bundle.crt and the certificates are in place. Does anybody know how to go about debugging this problem as I am quite new to portals and at my wits end to solve it.
Also I would be greatful if anybody can suggest me the steps on adding an Apex application configured as partner application with SSO authentication to a web clipping.There seems to be little or no-documentation at all in this regard(as far as my search goes).
Thanks in advance
-Venkat

I finally got it working by VERY CAREFULLY reading the instructions in the install.txt document in the SSO SDK package. You have to set up the partner application with a new schema in the login server database, and run the regapp.sql script AFTER editing it to insert data from the Login Server Partner Application admin screen. After you register the partner app in Portal, it gives you some info (site token, listener token, encryption key, etc). You have to MANUALLY copy these and paste them into the regapp.sql script, then run the script in the partner app schema. Make sure you don't confuse capital I with numeral 1 (like I did, since Oracle so nicely uses a non-serif font where you can not tell the difference).
Also make sure you copy the exact values for these parameters into your code when you use the SSOEnabler class. The listener token was very confusing since different documents appear to disagree on whether it should include the partner app name or not. It does require the partner app name:
app-name:hostname:port
hostname and port are for the web server that is handling http requests for the login server (usually your main portal web server).
John H.

Loading sound clips in my swing application

I have searched all the forums, din't find what i want.
I have many small sound files to be played in my application. Even on mouse Pressed, Drage etc etc....
Now I was looking for a better way of Loading the Sound files in memory as the application starts.....
If I use the Clip Interface of javax.sound and initilize them and open a stream, invoke the open() method, and store it in hashmap. So that when ever i need that file i will lookup for that clip and trigger the start() method which actually plays the sound. IS the approach the right approach, will not the Cip object keep the IO handle open, I have nearly 40 Clips to be loaded.
Can any one suggest me the better way of implementing this.
TIA
Zoha

As far as I know,there is no facility for detecting mouse scrolling wheel in JDK 1.3.
Check it in the later releases of JDK.

Problem with clipping and concerned objects (or rather their color)

Greeting everyone,
I hope i don't bother you with things that are already known or, in the end, are a product of my own stupidity ;P
My problem is the following:
I was working on a neat design for a list. The first version (without clipping) looked like this:
[http://www.7pics.info/?image=GHApp-Gradient-Mobile-HowItShouldBe_2c5.jpg]
As you can see on the bottom, the list was on top of all graphical elements.
And because this looks stupid, i decide to simply clip the list via "clip: Rectangle{...}".
Well... turns out it's not as easy as i hoped it would be; all of a sudden the list looks like this:
[http://www.7pics.info/?image=GHApp-GradientProblem-Mobile-1_fb7.jpg]
From the left to the right you see the following: first picture is what you'd see initially, from the second to the last i scrolled down one entry each (respectively moved the list up 30 pixels).
Further scrolling down doesn't change the look, it stays like in the last picture.
Scrolling up again delivers the same image, but in reverse order.
The clipping seems to change something in the style of the list elements.
To be more specific, the gradient of a single element is now applied to the whole list.
here is a Listing
//the group which contains the list and the clipping
Group{
     clip: Rectangle {
          x: 0, y: 70
          width: PublicVars.screenWidth, height: 210
          fill: Color.BLACK        //which color i use doesn't change the look
     content:[
          createChoicesList()
//create a box for each entry and add text from a string sequence "results"
createChoicesList():Node[]{
      for(result in results){
                       singleField = Group{
               Rectangle {
                    fill: LinearGradient {
                         startX : 0.0
                         startY : 0.0
                         endX : 0.250
                         endY : 0.250
                         stops: [
                              Stop {
                                   color : Color.LIGHTBLUE
                                   offset: 0.0
                              Stop {
                                   color : PublicVars.coolGradientBlueTransparent
                                   offset: 0.5
}I have no clue why this happens. I tried to shift some things around, thinking it had to do something with the order of some elements but... it didn't change anything.
Another thing i noticed afterwards:
If i run the App as a desktop program, the gradient effect is all messed up. but this time it doesn't matter if I clip the list or not:
[http://www.7pics.info/?image=GHApp-GradientProblem-Desktop-1_d5e.jpg]
The gradients are totally misplaced and if I scroll down they move and appear/disappear randomly across the list entries. sometimes the highlighted elements even look like this:
[http://www.7pics.info/?image=GHApp-GradientProblem-Desktop-2_89f.jpg]
Any Ideas?
P.s.:
Could it be that retrieving the resolution of a mobile device via
"var screenWidth = java.lang.Integer.parseInt(FX.getProperty("javafx.screen.width"));"
isn't very accurate?
If i use the values i get from this method for the desktop application, the screen will be smaller than in the emulated mobile phone
Edited by: Mr._Moe on 04.09.2009 21:31

Not sure about your problem, but I can answer your last question: you can now use the [javafx.stage.Screen|http://java.sun.com/javafx/1.2/docs/api/javafx.stage/javafx.stage.Screen.html] class to get screen dimensions.

How can I display & split the audio & video from the same digitized clip?

I digitized a scene into iMovie that I edited on a professional system which I don't have access to anymore. The whole scene is 1 clip. Now I see a few tweaks that I want to make, so I was hoping to do them in iMovie.
I want to "pull up" the audio in one section - meaning I want to take cut about 20 frames of audio from the end of a shot, and then move all the other audio up to fill the hole. To compensate for the missing 20 frames, I'll cut video off the head of the next shot. Some call this prelapping. Some call it an L-cut. Some call it asymmetrical trimming. Either way, I can't figure out how to do it in iMovie.
My clip appears in the timeline as one track - a single track that contains the video and 2 audio tracks. How can I display the audio that's tied to the video on its own track? Then I think I could split audio & video wherever I wanted and trim things up - but I can't figure out how to do it.
Am I asking too much of this software?
BTW, I never see the option to "Split audio clip at playhead". I'm not displaying clip volume or waveforms. Choosing to display waveforms doesn't show me anything. Maybe iMovie thinks I'd only want to see waveforms of audio that isn't tied to my video-and-audio clips?
Thanks in advance for any help...

Jordon,
"Am I asking too much of this software?"
No, you're not.
You first want to select your clip(s) and choose Advanced>Extract Audio.
This will copy the audio from the video clip and place it on one of the two separate audio tracks while lowering the audio level to zero in the original video track.
You can now edit and move the audio independently of the video.
With the audio clip selected, you'll find you now have access to Edit>Split Selected Audio Clip at Playhead.
Matt

How can I move clips from one library to another? Clips are still in original drive and not in new drive.

I am using iMovie 10.0.7 on a 1-week old iMac 27" running Yosemite 10.10.2. I migrated from iMovie 9 on a 2008 iMac running Snow Leopard and updated the libraries and events, etc.
I have two external drives connected via USB. I want to move / consolidate the library and clips from one of the external drives to the new iMac's 3TB fusion drive. This is to make room on the external drive to run Time Machine backups.
Apple's instructions on managing libraries and moving/copying clips/events tell me to drag to move between libraries and to Option-drag to copy. However, simply dragging only copies. I find that if I Command-drag the events/clips, I can "move" them. But when I look outside iMovie in the Mac OS X Finder, the event folders and clip files themselves are still sitting in the original drive.
I'm very perplexed as to how to really move the clips and event structure. Should I manually copy the clips and event folder structure outside of iMovie? I worry I will mess up iMovie's internal record keeping and folder structure information.
Thanks in advance.

Ahh, Ok. I actually had to go to Lynda.com to watch a training video of this highly bassackwards maneuver, but now I have it. In other words, while the intuitive thing is to make a new event to hold the clip you want and then open the old event and drag the clip into it's new event, the only way to accomplish this maneuver is to NOT create a new event, but rather, go to the clip AFTER the one you want to move, select it and then Right-Click on it and select SPLIT EVENT BEFORE SELECTED CLIP (or go to FILE>SPLIT EVENT BEFORE SELECTED CLIP). Then you wait a few seconds while the program thinks a bit (no feedback it is doing this - just a pause) and then it automatically creates a new event with the clip you wanted. Now just double-click the new event and name it something meaningful.
Thanks for your help!

How to play one clip multiple times at the same time?

I am writing a little game where a certain sound has to be played quite frequently. I load it as a Clip and play it with
myClip.setFramePosition(0);
myClip.loop(0);If the sound has to be played again but is still being played by another event, the setFramePosition() method resets the sound and the first playing instance is cut off.
A workaround would be that each object that needs to play this sound would get its own copy, but that is not feasible due to heavy memory consumption.
So here it goes: How can I play a single sound multiple times at the same time? Is that possible?
Edited by: andrasz on Feb 27, 2009 12:37 AM

If the sound has to be played again but is still being played by another event, the setFramePosition() method resets the sound and the first playing instance is cut off.
A workaround would be that each object that needs to play this sound would get its own copy, but that is not feasible due to heavy memory consumption.
So here it goes: How can I play a single sound multiple times at the same time? Is that possible?Ummmm, if you're using a clip, you'll have to maintain one copy per object that needs to play the sound concurrently. You could keep one master copy, and then create copies of the clip as necessary to play them, and then just dump the copies to decrease memory consumption.
A second idea would be to write your own Clip class. Esentially, all you would need to do is dump some sound data onto a TargetDataline to play it. It'll handle the buffering and playing at the correct speed itself. If that's all you did, you should be able to dump multiple times from the same instance and play it multiple times.
Obviously, that's just a theory. In practice, it may not work that way...

How can I create a video clip that has multiple copies of the same subject playing at the same time? Basically like one person became 50 backup dancers!

Hello Everyone,
I am trying to create a single video clip where my original subject (dancer) is multiplied on the screen many times. Basically I am trying to create a background video for a dance team and want to make it look like an army of the same person dancing behind them. Amy guidance would be great!
Thanks
Madisonman 2013

Motion ($50) can do this with a replicator.
Russ

Managing Family Clips on a Mac - Help - New Mac User

I am new to the Mac and am looking for the most efficient way to manage my media. I have 300+ files that are in the later stages of being converted to Mp4. All of the files will reside in /Movies/imported.
What should I do next?
Should I import everything into iMovie using the "move" option?
Should I import into Itunes and only import Movies I want to edit or post online. I am assuming this option will give me duplicates.
I think iPhoto can manage movies thoughts ?
My goal is to have only one local copy of the files (30+ gig), have access through iTunes, and finally iMovie access to edit and post online without importing and duplicating data.
Does any of this make sense ? I think I am OCD...
What would you do with 30gig of family clips?
null

Hello Richard,
I would place all the MPEG4 clips into iPhoto, where you could sort them to subject, year, etc. Then you could make a copy by dragging a clip to your desktop, leaving your original in iPhoto. Work with that copy in iMovie.

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