Sorry, I am clicking on the multi-trim button to delete the segment. I've been doing video edits like this with EMC9 (videowave) for a year now with the only problem being that if I create too many cuts (10+), it seems to hang often during rendering (but that's a different issue on an older machine with much less memory than my current 2GB ram X2 5000 machine).
I have to do more investigation. It may be that it's not calculating the offset into the file correctly as more cuts accumulate. For example, if the first cut is 4 seconds long, it looks like for the next cut I create, it actually resolves it to be 4 seconds later than I had intended. Since my cuts are actually longer than 4 seconds, it may be why it looked like the cuts wasn't happening because it was happening later (not sure if anyone follows that).
The wrench in that theory is that let's say the following scenario occurs:
1. I delete the first 40 minutes of a 1 hour show in one big sweeping cut. I should now have a 20 minute segment left (and I do).
2. I then mark another deletion say at the 46 minute (position in the original video) marker to the 50 minute marker. Clicking on the multi-trim should leave me with a 16 minute video. Unfortunately, the length of the video now grows back to the length of the video before the first cut (less of course the elapsed time of the 2nd cut).
I think this story will change as my investigation proceeds but it's bizarre. This was never a problem with EMC9 on Windows XP. Since I mainly use Videowave and MyDVD, perhaps I should try EMC9 on Vista without the 9.1 update.
If I follow you, you are not actually doing anything???
It sounds like you are splitting, but until such time as you
delete the segment you have split, nothing is going to change.
Another way of doing this with Markers is outlined in the Tips & Tricks section. –
HereI prefer the Split/Cut method myself.
Edited by amac, 08 January 2008 - 05:21 AM.
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