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Equipment & Techniques => Motion & Video => Topic started by: KevinA on June 29, 2013, 03:29:01 pm

Title: Short clips...how?
Post by: KevinA on June 29, 2013, 03:29:01 pm
Most editing software is designed to take short clips and splice together to turn them into a long film.
I want to do the opposite, take a long clip and make a selection of 5-10 second clips. Is there a technique I can use in FCP X to take say a 30 second clip, slice it into say 3, 10 second clips and output them as 3 separate clips. I can't figure out how to do it, other than one section at a time in different projects.
If not FCP X any other suggestions?
Title: Re: Short clips...how?
Post by: RFPhotography on June 29, 2013, 04:40:34 pm
Not familiar with FCP, but most editing packages will let you render a specific portion of the clip.  Generally you mark the start and end points and tell the software to render just that section.
Title: Re: Short clips...how?
Post by: KevinA on June 29, 2013, 04:50:57 pm
Not familiar with FCP, but most editing packages will let you render a specific portion of the clip.  Generally you mark the start and end points and tell the software to render just that section.
Yes one portion, but I can't see how to break a clip into portions and export the clips as separate entities.
Title: Re: Short clips...how?
Post by: RFPhotography on June 29, 2013, 06:23:21 pm
You shouldn't need to.  By selecting just a segment of the full clip you should be able to render that out as a separate clip.
Title: Re: Short clips...how?
Post by: KevinA on June 29, 2013, 06:59:41 pm
You shouldn't need to.  By selecting just a segment of the full clip you should be able to render that out as a separate clip.
Yeah I know, but what if I want 3 or 6 sections and want each to be a separate clip when rendered?
Title: Re: Short clips...how?
Post by: kaelaria on June 29, 2013, 07:45:51 pm
Then you select and render each separately. 
Title: Re: Short clips...how?
Post by: Sareesh Sudhakaran on June 30, 2013, 12:08:44 am
Most editing software is designed to take short clips and splice together to turn them into a long film.
I want to do the opposite, take a long clip and make a selection of 5-10 second clips. Is there a technique I can use in FCP X to take say a 30 second clip, slice it into say 3, 10 second clips and output them as 3 separate clips. I can't figure out how to do it, other than one section at a time in different projects.
If not FCP X any other suggestions?

You can try Roles. Roles can be exported separately as individual clips.
Title: Re: Short clips...how?
Post by: Morgan_Moore on June 30, 2013, 05:30:04 am
I used FCP 7 not X.. its kind of the same almost,maybe, in some areas

-You can export between the in (I) and out (O) marks

You can chop up a clip using the blade (B)

Letters in brackets are hotkeys

You can also export sections of a clip (I,O) with mpegstreamclip

S
Title: Re: Short clips...how?
Post by: bcooter on July 01, 2013, 12:43:05 pm
If you have a mac, buy quicktime pro 7.

You can move the little sliders under play scrub, into position, copy that area, open a new quicktime document and paste, then save as contained video.

This is easy and cost very little.

If you have a Pee Cee, don't have a clue, though I'm sure someone like wondershare has a cheap program.

IMO

BC
Title: Re: Short clips...how?
Post by: tho_mas on July 01, 2013, 06:31:59 pm
If you have a Pee Cee, don't have a clue
QT Pro is also available for Pee Cee  ...

Title: Re: Short clips...how?
Post by: fredjeang2 on July 02, 2013, 03:52:41 pm
QT Pro is also available for Pee Cee  ...

Yep, I have QT Pro on my PCs for quite a long time.