Adobe Cutting....am i missing something?

ForeverZeroo · Post by **ForeverZeroo** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:15 pm

Ok i'm very new to adobe...I have one question.

Is there a way to cut clips without dragging them to video 1,2, or 3?
because it will be annoying to keep dragging a clip...then rendering it so it plays ok...then delete what i dont need. I would like to make them into smaller clips before dragging. any way i can?

bum · Post by **bum** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:16 pm

Use the razor tool. its a lottle blade-like thing ya can access from the left of the video tracks.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 12:07 am

bum wrote:Use the razor tool. its a lottle blade-like thing ya can access from the left of the video tracks.

That only works on clips that are on the timeline, which is what ForeverZero said s/he <i>didn't</i> want to have to work with.

But anyway:

Yes, there is.
Drag the video file from the library into the source monitor (the one on the left if you've got two), and set In and Out points (keyboard shortcuts: I and O, respectively) to mark off the clip you need, then hit Overlay (keyboard shortcut: . (period) ) to plop it into the timeline.
Repeat.

ForeverZeroo · Post by **ForeverZeroo** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:58 pm

Hey thanks for that....it helped a whole lot!!!!

if you can answer me 2 more well 3 more questions...or anyone who knows adobe.

1. Every time i hit over lay and it goes into the timeline, do i have to render to make it run right?

2. It seems every time i add the clips to my list (take this for exp. 1-26 eps of trigun) i tend to run out of computer space. Does it really take up that much room...or is there a way o get around that.

3. Where are the Fade, white out and black out effects?

ForeverZeroo · Post by **ForeverZeroo** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:00 pm

and is there a way to save my video list? it seems i always have to re upload the videos every tim i come back to edit...

Zaphod_Beeblebrox · Post by **Zaphod_Beeblebrox** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:53 pm

ForeverZeroo wrote:1. Every time i hit over lay and it goes into the timeline, do i have to render to make it run right?

Yes.

ForeverZeroo wrote:3. Where are the Fade, white out and black out effects?

Fade can be found in "transitions" under "dissolves"

to fade to white/black, you'll need to do a transition from whatever you're working with at the time to a frame of white/black

Black can be done by fading to nothing as frames with no footage are black, to fade to white you should create an image of pure white and fade to that.

ForeverZeroo · Post by **ForeverZeroo** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:23 pm

bah....that black white stuff is more annoying then it has to be...

if anyone else can answer the rest of my questions please do so....

and thank you for telling me question 1 and 3