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Cutting Captured Video - 4
In more detail:
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Mark-in at start of second shot |
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| Mark-out at end of second shot. Note the marked-out frame is in fact the first frame of the next shot |
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You'll
notice that I said to mark the end by pressing mark-out on the first frame
of the next shot. That might sound like one frame too many, but in fact
it isn't, because the frame that you mark out is the first excluded frame
(see diagram). The last frame that actually appears is the one before
the mark-out point.
After this use Create Video File to make a new AVI file. The output options should be the same as those you used to capture the original file (make sure these are correctly defined in the template or master project), and so the creation of the new file will run through at maximum speed, just copying frames from input to output, producing a single AVI file of the exact shot.
Put the new file in the appropriate sub-directory or separate partition, according to how you organise your system. Using MSP, when you enter the name for the output file you can also enter a subject text. Put a short description of what the shot contains in here, this will become the annotation of the clip when the file is loaded back into the editor and is a helpful memory-jog.
For actual file-names I avoid anything fancy, and generally just number them. For example, if the section I'm cutting is a game of tennis, I'd name the cut clips "tennis1", "tennis2", etc. The main reason is that if I need to re-capture and re-cut the clips, I don't have a hard time remembering what I called them the first time. The paragraph below on The Backup Advantage explains why this might be necessary.
Now you can move onto the next shot. The scratch-pad is already at the start of the next shot so all you need to do is press mark-in. Then play forwards to the end of that shot, and carry on as before.
With a little practice this becomes a very quick process, and efficiently cuts up your capture file into separate exact shots.
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