How do I split video into clips?

Josakun · Post by **Josakun** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 12:05 am

Hello

I'm trying to get into using Premiere but I'm having trouble splitting up my episodes into easy to use bite sized pieces in Virtual Dub could anyone help me out or point me in the direction of a tutorial or something please? Thanks in advance

WC Annihilus · Post by **WC Annihilus** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 12:28 am

JaddziaDax wrote:open the video file in virtualdub mod go to video->compression->Huffyuv

then go to file->save

use those to mark the beginning and the end of the "clips" you want so you can save room

This also does a good job explaining... well, everything: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtechbeta/

Josakun · Post by **Josakun** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 12:32 am

Thanks SO much I'll finally be able to get going in Premiere now

Josakun · Post by **Josakun** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 1:54 am

hmm this isn't cool I have another problem. I was splitting up my clips and everything into a folder and about 3 quarters the way through I came up against an error message my hard drive was full the file with the clips was 7gig. I know I'm running low on disk space but still 7 gig for 1/3 of an episodeis a bit mush is it possible to split these clips in a more space efficient way?

Josakun · Post by **Josakun** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 1:56 am

Josakun wrote:hmm this isn't cool I have another problem. I was splitting up my clips and everything into a folder and about 3 quarters the way through I came up against an error message my hard drive was full the file with the clips was 7gig. I know I'm running low on disk space but still 7 gig for 1/3 of an episodeis a bit mush is it possible to split these clips in a more space efficient way?

I meant 3/4 of an episode lol you can tell I failed maths.

WC Annihilus · Post by **WC Annihilus** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 2:05 am

Unfortunately, that's how things go. Lossless codec files are very large. 7GB for 3/4 of an episode actually sounds very good. Now, if you're getting your footage from DVDs, then you can actually skip the clip making process and just make fake AVI files using VFAPIConv (described here: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... ocId201615). However, if your footage is from the... hmm, I'll call it "unconventional" source, then there isn't really anything (that I know of) that you can do.

WC Annihilus · Post by **WC Annihilus** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 2:13 am

O, I just remembered that you're using Premiere, so for DVD footage the fake avi files are unnecessary, since Premiere can take .avs files (described here: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... ocId295338)

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:37 am

make smaller "clips" than 3/4th the episode

O.o and remove the audio?
"Streams"->"stream's list"->"disable stream"

Infinity Squared · Post by **Infinity Squared** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:10 am

Either smaller clips like Jadd said, or actually harvest scenes you think will be useful. Cut out the rest of the things you know you probably won't use. If you use those scene markers over the parts you don't want and press delete, it will cut off those bits when you finally go ahead and render an output.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:14 am

Infinity Squared wrote:Either smaller clips like Jadd said, or actually harvest scenes you think will be useful. Cut out the rest of the things you know you probably won't use. If you use those scene markers over the parts you don't want and press delete, it will cut off those bits when you finally go ahead and render an output.

thats essentially what i meant

ps. this goes in the video help forums