Splitting and renaming clips in FCE4

How can I split a clip up into smaller clips and rename then? Whenever I try to copy or duplicate them I get the same copy for all. I was trying to change the name as well and it seems I can't make them independent of each other. Does anyone know how to do this?

Read through pp. 68-69 of the manual (aka the help file) "Copying and deleting items in the Browser". And pp. 943-950, "Working with Master and Affiliate Clips."
You can cut up a single clip into as many parts as you want. You can do this in the Viewer by setting IN and OUT points or on the Timeline by using the Razor tool. To rename the subclips created this way you have to make each of them an Independent Clip. ( *Make Independent Clip* or *Modify > Make Sequence Clips Independent*.) But read up on it before you do this, as you may create even more headaches for yourself if you're not careful when you do this.

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Splitting and Merging Clips

Hi,
I have some older edited video that I want to split into separate events by shooting subject. I know how to split the clips into separate events, but my problem is that imovie has imported the video into clips that combine subjects. Is there a way to split a clip within an event? Thanks!

Bill has assumed you mean a physical splitting of the clip and if that is what you are after then he has given you the answer.
But you might also consider virtual splitting within a project.
In the Project Media panel you can create one or more project folders using the Folder icon:
You can then take your 35 minute clip and create duplicates of it in your new folder(s). NB: These are not physical duplicates, only the original 35 minute clip is on your hard disk. So you don't have to worry how many duplicates you make, they do not take up extra hard disk space.
Having done this you can then rename the duplicates (in my example part 1, part 2, part 3). But the clever bit, that allows you to treat each of those duplicates as a separate clip, is that you can then set unique In/Out points for each duplicate. In the screen shot following you can see the In/Out point for 'part1'. In the Media panel you can see that part_1 is 13 frames long while part_2 is 1 second & 14 frames long.
You can add these alternate versions to the timeline and apply different effects and transitions to each part.
Cheers,
Neale
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Moving and renaming clips in the Project Window is EXTREMELY slow, but the rest of the program is fine?! PPro CS6

I have Win7 Pro X64 with Core i7 and 32GB RAM...
When I'm editing and doing other things, adding FX etc, the program works fine BUT when I do ANYTHING in the Program Window i.e. renaming clips, moving clips, etc the program acts as if it's bogged down... I can't for the life of me figure this one out...
I don't have a large number of clips/footage items
I've cleaned the cache
What else could be causing this? When I say slow, I mean a good 10 seconds before the program responds to anything I've done, and when renaming clips, I always have to do it twice because the first time it doesn't "take"
Thanks all for any help!
Aza

It occurs with or without clips in a sequence... the problem isn't the sequences, the problem ONLY occurs in the Project Panel, every other panel is as fast as my machine will allow (very fast) only the PROJECT Panel is EXTREMELY slow when moving clips into folders, etc
ALSO, all my drives and preferences are set up the same in every project, only THIS project is moving slowly... I even divided the project up into 4 separate projects to cut down on the number of clips in each project, and it still moves slow... almost as if something has carried over to each project, or something

Help with splitting and arranging clips

Hi All,
Can some please help a complete noob by explaining their simple workflow for FCE HD from after capture to edit.
I am new to digital editing and am working my way through Tom's book but am a little confused in regards to arranging and organising my clips. I have a new project (My niece's 1st B'day party) which currently has 1 master clip (I think this is the terminology) with several (27) segments after running DV Start/Stop.
This is where I get confused. I want to arrange the segments into Bins, for example: Birthday girl, cake, games etc... But there is something about relationships between master clip, segments and subclips which I don't understand.
How is the best way to "cut up" (and is that the best way) the segments into smaller master clips so i can rename then, rearrange them and add comments in preperation for editing?
Sorry for the long post, but when you don't really know what you want to say you end up saying a lot
Cheers.
Andrew

I don't use the Master/Subclip relationships. My method of sorting out various types of clip, by subject (your examples of "Birthday girl, cake, games etc...") is to slide (click, hold and drag) all obviously bad clips into V3 and ignore (mostly), and then slide all the Birthday girl clips on to V2 and move them sideways to group them closer together, then do the same for each other group. This leaves in V1 some shots such as establishing shots, closeups of decorations, departures etc. which you know where to put (eg., establishing shots at the beginning, closeups cut in somewhere where suitable as the editing proceeds). Next, I drag down and left or right various clips from V2 to V1 to their appropriate positions in order, leaving gaps between here and there to avoid having to move sets of clips left and right too often to make room. Then I set In and Out points in the Timeline (or Viewer) and close gaps between the clips within each set and see how that set looks. When all the material has gone through that process I check the whole video and make (usually) minor) changes, then do transitions and set audio levels, then leave it for a few days to look at it afresh.
Is this a bizarre method? What do you pros do?

Split and Rename Document with Bookmark?

Hello,
I don't know if this is possible, but I figured this would be the place to find out. What we would like to do it split a multi page PDF document into single pages. The individual page PDF files would be renamed to it's respective bookmark in the multi page document. Each page has it's own bookmark in the multi page document so there wouldn't be any name conflicts.
Has anyone ever heard of this, or better yet, have a script to do this? I would imagine this would be a challenging script to write, if it's even possible. If anyone with Acrobat scripting know how could please help, I would greatly appreciate it. Any type of assistance with this would be awesome!
Thank you in advance,
Danny

Something like this, perhaps?
http://try67.blogspot.com/2008/12/acrobat-extract-chapters-by-bookmarks.html

Project renames sequence and all clips in the sequence when a clip is added

My project is renaming my sequences and the clips in those sequences whenever I add a clip. For example, I have a sequence called "dance section 2", which contains 20 some-odd clips with various names. When I add a clip named "drop from above", the name of the sequence is changed to "drop from above", and the name of every other clip in the sequence is also changed to "drop from above" (video, audio, stills, everything). When I add a clip named "spins", all the names are changed to "spins".
The name of the sequence is changed in both the timeline and the browser, but the names of the other clips are changed only in the timeline. In the browser, they keep their old names. The exception to this is the last clip added before the name changer. For example, if I add "drop from above" to the sequence, and then add "spins", the clip named "drop from above" is renamed "spins" in the browser as well as in the timeline, but the other clips are renamed only in the timeline.
The clips in the sequence also keep their original content - so the sequence looks the same as it did before, but all the names of the clips are changed.
This is only happening in one project. All of my other projects are working fine.
I've tried restarting and deleting preferences. I've also looked at the autosave vault for the project. The backup projects saved after a certain time all behave the same way, and the projects before that time all behave normally. I can't imagine what would have caused this, though, since I've been working on this project all day and nothing's happened to my computer or hard drive or anything.
Also, there are no freeze frames at the beginnings of my sequences (I read another thread with a somewhat similar issue and getting rid of freeze frames seemed to help that person).
I'm in FCP 7.0 on a Macbook Pro.
Thanks in advance for your help!

Welcome to the discussions...
I've had this happen. My guess is that it's related to round-tripping to/from Color, but I can't be sure. IMHO, the sequence is corrupted. I just dealt with it for a while, then rebuilt it by making changes from an earlier version.
Sorry I don't have a better solution, but at least you know you're not alone.
Patrick

I have a huge file which is in GB and I want to split the video into clip and export each clip individually. Can you please help me how to split and export the videos to computer? It will be of great help!!

I have a huge file which is in GB and I want to split the video into clip and export each clip individually. Can you please help me how to split and export the videos to computer? It will be of great help!!

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What version of Premiere Elements do you have and on what computer operating system is it running?
Please review the following workflow.
ATR Premiere Elements Troubleshooting: PE11: Project Assets Organization for Scene and Highlight Grabs from Collection o…
But please also determine if your project goal is supported by
a. format of your source
and
b. computer resources
More later based on details that you will post.
ATR

Renaming and Joining Clips

The instructions in iMovie Help clearly state it is possible rename clips in the Clips Pane, not just the Clip Viewer. In iMovie 3.0.3 which I am using, it lets me rename them in the Clip Viewer just fine by selecting and retyping the name. Once in the Clips Pane, though, I have tried both this and double-clicking and retyping. The new title appears but iMovie won't save the change!
Also, I've been trying to lock together a group of clips by selecting them all, creating a blank title under "Centered Multiple" of the same length, and applying it to the entire selection. Other people say this works fine for them, but when I try it, if it's in Timeline view it shows a circle with a line through it, then applies the title only to the first clip. If in Clips View, it deselects the rest of the clips and applies the title only to the first clip. I'd like to be able to
1. Move the entire selection, anywhere I want in the timeline once it's edited the way I want, without having to keep each individual clip in order (the only way I've found is by selecting them all but it would be nice if there were a better way) and
2. If I CAN'T lock, fuse, or otherwise join the clips together, AT LEAST be able to rename them so I am SURE they remain in the proper order when moved!
I think perhaps some setting is wrong, not allowing me to do what has worked for others, but can't figure out what it might be. Anyone have a clue? Thanks for any help or assistance.

It may bear repeating, I'm using iMovie 3.0.3. (I know, I'm probably posting in the wrong forum, but this one is so much better-trafficed and I do want people to see my posts!) This is what it says in iMovie Help 3.0.3:
"My effect stopped rendering before it was finished
If your effect stopped rendering before it was finished, you may have clicked in a text field during the rendering process. To resume rendering, click outside the text field."
(I swear, to my knowledge, I didn't click on anything once the red line started across! It deselected the remaining clips by itself!)
"About rendering
The process of creating new elements (such as titles, effects, or transitions) in a movie is called "rendering." It happens any time video is modified, such as when you create a transition between scenes or add title text over video.  You can continue editing your movie while your change is rendered. Rendering takes a few seconds or minutes to complete."
Okay, this is what it says in iMovie 6.0 Help:
"About rendering
The process of creating new elements (such as transitions, titles, or effects) in a movie is called "rendering." Rendering happens any time a video clip is modified, such as when you add a dissolve between scenes or scroll text over video. During the rendering process, iMovie HD makes the appropriate changes to each frame in a clip. As iMovie HD renders a clip, you'll see a small red line progress along the bottom of the clip.
If you apply effects or transitions to more than one selected clip, iMovie HD renders all the clips at once, which can save you a lot of work. You can continue editing your movie while your change is rendered. Rendering takes from a few seconds to a few minutes to complete."
Notice the difference? iMovie 6.0 specifically talks about applying effects or transitions to more than one selected clip. iMovie 3.0.3 never mentions it. Is this an inadvertant omission corrected later, or could I be trying to do something which is actually not allowed in iMovie 3.0.3?
As for renaming clips, I still have not the slightest clue as to why there would be a difference between the Clips Pane and Clips Viewer and why it works in one place and not the other! I don't think it's that you're allowed to rename a clip only once, as one of the clips still has a name iMovie made, so I obviously didn't rename it.

Split and delete unwanted event clips

Just got FCX - haven't worked with FCP since v5.5 a number of years ago. Learning.
I have some footage (event clip) that is about an hour long and I want to delete about half of the clip (forever - it's old footage and nothing is on it). I can't see how to split an event clip and delete the portion of the original file that I no longer want. I can reject the offending part of the clip but the source file remains. If I try and move the rejected part of the file to the trash it moves the whole source file and I lose everything.
iMovie let me do this (it would split the event clip itself).
How do I do it on FCX ? I will reclamin 15+ GB if I can manage this.
Thanks

deleting parts of media is a standard practise.
Its called consolidating,
say you have imported many files each taking up a lot of your fast editing drive from your camera archives/tapes. (You do have original backups of your media don't you.)
You have used only a few seconds of each clip ( each of which may run to many tens of minutes)
On a "real" editing system you can copy just the used media, not the WHOLE clip (plus definable handles), re-link your timeline to these then delete the unused media. (Not your original media!)
We need a real consolidate in FCPx ( a decompose batch import would be nice too!)
Steve

I have large clips that I want to split and make a DVD where each new clip is a different menu option. How do I do that?

I recently transferred home movies from VHS to .mpg. They are currently in a 60 minute video. I want to split up the clips and burn them do a DVD with an iDVD custom menu (i.e. so I can click on the individual clips to play). How do I edit the videos to save shorter clips to my hard drive?
Thank you!

I recently transferred home movies from VHS to .mpg
How do I edit the videos to save shorter clips to my hard drive?
mpg-2 is not designed for editing. You will need to convert ('rip') your DVD to convert the mpg-2 content to something like DV video that can be edited in iMovie and used in iDVD.
DVDxDV will do this; MPEG-Streamclip with the $20 Apple Quicktime MPG-2 Component will do this; and Roxio's Toads Titanium will do this.

"Import" splits takes into clips and loses footage

When importing footage from both my Sony HDV camcorder (directly) and my Sony DVCAM camcorder (via a Sony DSR-11 deck) to my Mac Mini using firewire cables, FCPX breaks some takes into multiple shorter clips.
Whilst this could just be annoying, it's much worse than that as it loses footage as it does it, at the unwanted clip breaks.
FCP Studio used to give the option of auto splitting imports into clips, FCPX appears not to.
Any ideas for preventing the automatic splitting of takes?
Thanks.
P.S. Most recently, my one minute of colour bars is now six separate clips!

I don't run iMovie 08, so am not entirely familiar with it's use. I think that you can export each iMovie 08 clip to a new iMovie 08 project, then export that new project (containing one clip) to Quicktime, and from there import into iM6 for editing.
Here are a couple of threads for you to look at.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6959493&#6959493
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6855152&#6855152

Splitting One Large clip in Event Library

I recently had some 8mm film transferred to digital. I found some Christmas' that were taken when I was a kid. This segment was on 11 minute stream of multiple Christmas' together. When I imported the AVI that I received back, it naturally was on long clip. What I would like to do is split these into multiple events (I think I can remember when each year was, getting old you know )
Everything I have read seems that it should work, like:
Place the scan to where I want to split, then press Command-Shift-S, but all I get is a beep.
I select the clip I want to make into one event and tried copying, but no paste. Tried moving, but it wants to move the whole clip.
I tried selecting the next year and do the File | Split Event before Selected Clip, but it is grayed out.
I'm at a loss for what to do, so if anyone knows the "tricks" to do this, please help.
Larry

I use MPEG Streamclip for this, and it is free. QuickTime Pro also works great.
Instructions for MPEG Streamclip
1) Download and install MPEG Streamclip from Squared 5 (free).
3) Start MPEG Streamclip
4) Drag your 11 minute clip into the MPEG Streamclip window.
(If you don't know where it is, right-click on the clip in iMovie and select "Reveal in Finder"
5) If you want to split a long clip into smaller clips, you can make smaller clips by using MPEG Streamclip. Move the cursor to the "in" point of the clip, and press i. Move the cursor to the "Out" point of the clip, and press o. Then do steps 5 and 6 and repeat until you have done this for all clips you want.
6) Use FILE/EXPORT USING QUICKTIME to convert the files to Apple Intermediate Codec (or h.264 if you prefer)
7) Optional: If you know the date and or time of the footage, name your file
clip-yyyy-mm-dd hh;mm;ss
(let mpeg streamclip provide the extension). This will provide metadata that iMovie will use to put the event in the right year and month.
8) Save the resulting file in a place where you can find it, like your Desktop.
9) Open iMovie.
10) In iMovie, choose FILE/IMPORT/Movies... and choose the file you saved in steps 5,6,7. You can import several clips at once if you want.
11) iMovie will generate thumbnails and you can edit.

Splitting video into clips

video downloaded from DVD will not split into clips for editing how can I split into clips. The DVD is from an old camerea not compatable with windows 7 so have to download from DVD . jules

juliej44
It sounds like whatever was put on disc was put on a DVD-R Intenso brand disc.
Probably the tape content was put on that DVD-R disc in DVD-VIDEO format. It gets more complicated if it gets put on the DVD-RAM type disc (which does not seem to be the case).
To verify the format of the material on your DVD disc, put the disc in the burn tray, go to computer, and Open the drive. You should see at least two folders, OpenDVD, VIDEO_TS, and maybe AUDIO_TS. Those folders are indicative of a DVD-VIDEO format.
http://www.fileinfo.com/help/video_ts_folder
Now back to Premiere Elements and the Video Importer. The video editor is not going to rip off clips from the DVD-VIDEO format. It is going to rip off VOB video files which contain a fixed number of files before it generates additional of its kind for additional video content.
Once you have the video VOB files (typically starting with VTS_01_1.VOB...spot the larger file size ones), in the Video Importer, you bring them into the project where you split them into clips that you want. You can do that in the Preview Window with the Set In Set Out point.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premiereelements/using/WSA27F29AF-97BB-4bdc-AF98-65113182EDF6. html
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/06/pe11-project-assets-organization-for.html
Please review the above and then let us know if any of it helped for the task that you want to perform with Premiere Elements.
Thanks.
ATR

Split a filmstrip/clip in event library.

I have imported an old mini dv-8 movie in imovie and somehow it has become one long filmstrip/clip in the event library.
I would like to split and divide this clip in and over more events. Does anyone knows how?
(I know that it is not possible with imovie08, because a filmstrip/clip can only be split in the project library)

I would like to split and divide this clip in and over more events. Does anyone knows how?
Applications like QT Pro ($30) and MPEG Streamclip (free) can do this easily. If your captured file is not currently being used in any project, you can open it in one of these applications at the Finder level and proceed to divide the file into the segment blocks you want or trim out what you wish to keep and discard anything left over. The strategy is the same for both utilities.
1) Open the file in either application.
2) Scrub the playhead to the approximate frame you wish to use as the beginning of your segment.
3) Use the left/right arrow keys to select that exact frame you want.
4) Press the "I" key to set your "in point."
5) Scrub the playhead to the approximate frame you wish to use as the last frame in your segment.
6) Again use the left/right arrow keys to select the exact frame you want.
7) Press the "O" key to set your "out point."
8) Use the "Save As..." file menu option to save your segment to your had drive as an appropriately named file.
9) Repeat steps 2 thru 8 until done.
10) Discard the original file/Event folder if no longer needed and import your file segments to an appropriate new or pre-existing Event folder.

Batch rename clips in my bin

I have a 30min clip on the timeline and when I find a shot I like, I use my blade tool to cut an in/out. I then drag this cut clip to video layer 2, which is where all my clips will be that will be used in my project.
Then I create a new bin and drag all these shots from video layer 2, to this bin. The problem I’m having is now have to click on each individual clip and rename them manually.
Is there any way I can select all the clips within the bin and lets say auto batch rename the selected clips.
I know I can solve this by placing the clip in the viewer and setting an in/out marker and then make a subclip, however I really like scrubbing through my footage on the timeline because I can view my clip in the filmstrip mode which i'm use to and love cutting my footage this way.
Please tell me this is possible!

So let's come to the point that you explain WHY to batch rename, and what the names will look like.
Do you want to have them numbered?
With my suggested workflow that will be, because if you skip the line where I suggested to type a name, then all subclips will be numbered sequentially.
I understand that's not what you want, but it can be a starter for a workaround, because I think what you are looking for doesn't exist yet. (unless you use batch export, which has the ability to change and add pre- and suffixes; then import; but that will cost time and diskspace).
I'm curious to hear the idea behind your workflow.
Rienk
edit: Sorry if I seem eager to have you use my workflow-idea. I'm not. I'm just curious what problems you have with it.
Message was edited by: Rienk

Splitting and renaming clips in FCE4

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