Lets Edit .. remove footage in middle of clip

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I must be having a melt down, but I've been unable to figure out how
to remove footage in the middle of a clip using Lets Edit (software
only)

All the directions insist it os blindingly easy, there are 4 ways to do
it.

The tool images set `in'`out', and mark `in=>' `<=out'.
The picture in help file indidcates the in/out marks can be used. But
setting them around the unwanted section has no visible effect other
than to hylight that sction of timeline.

The in and out set (with no arrows) seem only to work from either
beginning or end of a clip. Ditto for dragging with the mouse. Only
at the ends.

How can I markout a section in the middle and get rid of it?

Another way, is supposed to be the `trim dialog'. No clues of any kind
with this baby. Fiddling with it.. I get hugely unexpected results.
But again I'm assured its ridiculously easy.... just doesn't tell how.

The help file section on trimming says its really easy repeatedly but
never really says how its done.. I guess its so easy as to not need
any telling.

I'm sure I'm being really wrong headed in some way here and blindly
overlooking how it works but before I jump off a high building, please
someone tell me how this `easy' trimming is done?

 

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It doesn't get installed on your hard disk automatically, but if you
look on the Let's Edit distribution CDROM, you'll find a 334 page
users manual which explains a bunch of stuff that you would *never*
figure out on your own (at least, I never would).

All the "trim" techniques seem to be about getting rid of video
at the beginning and end of clips. If you want to take a chunk
out of the middle, it's easy enough, though. you select the start
point for the removal, right-click in the time line, and select
"Separate". Then you select the end point and do another
separation. The result will be three "virtual" clips on the time
line, one of which is the stuff you want to get rid of. You select
that block, and do a Delete.

Note that these are non-destructive edits on the time line, they
don't really split your video clips as near as I can tell.

<reader@newsguy.com> wrote in message news:uad15nc1p.fsf@newsguy.com...
> I must be having a melt down, but I've been unable to figure out how
> to remove footage in the middle of a clip using Lets Edit (software
> only)
>
> All the directions insist it os blindingly easy, there are 4 ways to do
> it.
>
> The tool images set `in'`out', and mark `in=>' `<=out'.
> The picture in help file indidcates the in/out marks can be used. But
> setting them around the unwanted section has no visible effect other
> than to hylight that sction of timeline.
>
> The in and out set (with no arrows) seem only to work from either
> beginning or end of a clip. Ditto for dragging with the mouse. Only
> at the ends.
>
> How can I markout a section in the middle and get rid of it?
>
> Another way, is supposed to be the `trim dialog'. No clues of any kind
> with this baby. Fiddling with it.. I get hugely unexpected results.
> But again I'm assured its ridiculously easy.... just doesn't tell how.
>
> The help file section on trimming says its really easy repeatedly but
> never really says how its done.. I guess its so easy as to not need
> any telling.
>
> I'm sure I'm being really wrong headed in some way here and blindly
> overlooking how it works but before I jump off a high building, please
> someone tell me how this `easy' trimming is done?
>

 

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"Kevin D. Kissell" <deletethisspamtrapKevinK@paralogos.com> writes:

> It doesn't get installed on your hard disk automatically, but if you
> look on the Let's Edit distribution CDROM, you'll find a 334 page
> users manual which explains a bunch of stuff that you would *never*
> figure out on your own (at least, I never would).

The *.pdf manual right? That where I see it repeated how easy it is
but no explanation given... at least no under the `trimming video'
section.

> All the "trim" techniques seem to be about getting rid of video
> at the beginning and end of clips. If you want to take a chunk
> out of the middle, it's easy enough, though. you select the start
> point for the removal, right-click in the time line, and select
> "Separate". Then you select the end point and do another
> separation. The result will be three "virtual" clips on the time
> line, one of which is the stuff you want to get rid of. You select
> that block, and do a Delete.

> Note that these are non-destructive edits on the time line, they
> don't really split your video clips as near as I can tell.

Yikes, I knew it would be something self evident .... I did try the
separation tool, but was separating then back to trimming, the newly
created `ends'. Which seems quite a lot of work just to get rid of a
section. Never dawned on me I could separate twice and thereby create
a small island of unwanted stuff to be handily deleted.

While I'm getting some hand holding, can you tell me Kevin, what the
`mark' in/out with the => <= arrows does?