Extracting Clips

[jjmjones]

I can't figure out how to extract a clip. I drug the movie disk into the DVD Video screen and the edit and extract buttons appeared. I was able to mark the begin/end of the clip, but cannot copy it. If I click on either the edit or extract button, the file is updated, but no follow on screen to save the file. The manual is worthless, and if you type "extract" into help, it has nothing. That said, through some sequence of events I cannot recreate, I was once able to get to a point when it said to insert a disc. The disc did in fact seem to be copying the clip, but when I tried to open the disc, only the cover screen with the correct name of the clip was there, but no clip -- the disc had only about 47K on it. Plus, I also just want to save these clips to my computer vs a disc -- I teach online so want to add clips to my classroom from the desktop, but Toast 10 seems to require a disc for copying. I'm reasonably computer literate, but don't do movies and media files routinely, so most of the explanations on these discussions are over my head from a technical point. It shouldn't be this hard, but it certainly is frustrating.

[tsantee]

The markers you place in the Toast Video player are used to mark the portions of the video you want Toast to ignore when burning a DVD (Video window) or exporting to another format (Convert window). Move the top slider to a place where you want an "edit" to begin and click the triangle at the bottom. Drag the right half of the triangle to the right where you want the edit to end. Add as many of these as you want. When you are done choose Save and return to Toast.

 

If you have DVD video selected as the format in the Video window your new DVD will only include the parts which were not marked. If you are in the Convert window then the exported video will only include the parts which were not marked.

 

The original video is never modified. The term "extract" is a bit misleading because no extraction actually happens. The video is displayed and prepared for marking any edit points.

[dlakewa]

The markers you place in the Toast Video player are used to mark the portions of the video you want Toast to ignore when burning a DVD (Video window) or exporting to another format (Convert window). Move the top slider to a place where you want an "edit" to begin and click the triangle at the bottom. Drag the right half of the triangle to the right where you want the edit to end. Add as many of these as you want. When you are done choose Save and return to Toast.

 

If you have DVD video selected as the format in the Video window your new DVD will only include the parts which were not marked. If you are in the Convert window then the exported video will only include the parts which were not marked.

 

The original video is never modified. The term "extract" is a bit misleading because no extraction actually happens. The video is displayed and prepared for marking any edit points.

 

thanks for your helpful post---just talked to Roxio Tech support and they really had no idea how to do video extractions (or editing)....a couple comments/questions: The Toast 10 user guide (as well as support) mentions a 'done' button after editing...I do not see one, so I assume 'choosing Save' from the Toast Video Player file menu would be the equivalant (?), and when I have extracted or edited the video, I still notice that the required space to burn the video has not changed (the original was 3.85GB, and I would think that my new time of just 5 minutes would be much less)....is there any way to verify the edit before I burn the DVD? Thanks again.....

[tsantee]

thanks for your helpful post---just talked to Roxio Tech support and they really had no idea how to do video extractions (or editing)....a couple comments/questions: The Toast 10 user guide (as well as support) mentions a 'done' button after editing...I do not see one, so I assume 'choosing Save' from the Toast Video Player file menu would be the equivalant (?), and when I have extracted or edited the video, I still notice that the required space to burn the video has not changed (the original was 3.85GB, and I would think that my new time of just 5 minutes would be much less)....is there any way to verify the edit before I burn the DVD? Thanks again.....

The editor in Toast Video Player has been redone since the manual was written. Choosing Save is the equivalent of what once was Done. The size bar at the bottom does not reflect the edit. However, the length of time in the title description should be shorter. Choose Save as Disc Image and the resulting image file will be the size needed, not the size shown on the indicator. Burn the disc image to DVD using the Image File setting in the Copy window.

 

There are new undocumented things I continue to uncover in this version. Apparently nobody actually made a list of everything that was changed nor how that change allows a different approach than was needed in previous versions. I'm not surprised their support people sometimes get confused. Me, too.

[dlakewa]

The markers you place in the Toast Video player are used to mark the portions of the video you want Toast to ignore when burning a DVD (Video window) or exporting to another format (Convert window). Move the top slider to a place where you want an "edit" to begin and click the triangle at the bottom. Drag the right half of the triangle to the right where you want the edit to end. Add as many of these as you want. When you are done choose Save and return to Toast.

 

If you have DVD video selected as the format in the Video window your new DVD will only include the parts which were not marked. If you are in the Convert window then the exported video will only include the parts which were not marked.

 

The original video is never modified. The term "extract" is a bit misleading because no extraction actually happens. The video is displayed and prepared for marking any edit points.

 

Since my last post, I have discovered that what is going on here is Roxio has given us different video editing abilities for Tivo Transfers and other video. So my video in question is a Tivo transfer, and after trying to edit, it does not save my changes. So what I am doing now is saving the imported Tivo video as a disc image, and then converting it to a quicktime movie, and then I will try to import it again to Toast and hopefully it will allow me to edit and save my changes. I just hope I don't lose much video quality by doing all this....

[tsantee]

Since my last post, I have discovered that what is going on here is Roxio has given us different video editing abilities for Tivo Transfers and other video. So my video in question is a Tivo transfer, and after trying to edit, it does not save my changes. So what I am doing now is saving the imported Tivo video as a disc image, and then converting it to a quicktime movie, and then I will try to import it again to Toast and hopefully it will allow me to edit and save my changes. I just hope I don't lose much video quality by doing all this....

We've been discussing a TiVo transfer this entire time? I don't have TiVo so I avoid trying to troubleshoot what I've never seen and can't test. There's a TiVo Transfer, Mac2TiVo and TiVo to Go forum here. Browse the topics there to see if there is better info there than I provided.