Hi i often edit my video and i normally leave silence in between scenes and takes me a lot of time to remove all of them and was wondering if there is any function within magix video deluxe to automaticaly cut all the scenes where the volume is 0.
Thanks
Hi
. . . . i normally leave silence in between scenes and takes me a lot of time to remove all of them . . . .
Assuming you mean leave gaps between scenes then Movie Edit pro does have the Find and close gaps function - right click a blank area of the timeline to get this dialog.
If that is not what you mean, then please give more details of how you are ' leave silence in between scenes' - a screen shot of the timeline zoomed in enough to see the 'silence' between scenes may help.
John EB
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Hi! Sorry that I wasn't clear enough.
first thing i should say i have pointed out i'm using magix video deluxe premium not movie edit pro not sure if they are comparable so i thought to said it again.
Second i have attached a picture here below to show the silence area that are through out a video that i would like to be detected and trimmed automatically:
It may be the case is not possible but i was wondering maybe with some marker to detect when somebody not talking to make cut easier.
Hope is more clear.
Thanks everybody for your help!
Video Deluxe Premium is exactly the same product as Movie Edit Pro; the latter is its name for English speakers, the former for German and other language users.
No, there is no way for MEP to find those audio silences, sorry. You will have to cut out those passages manually, i.e. make a cut at the beginning of the "silence", another cut at the end and then delete the section.
Personally, I would not normally consider doing what you want, because: there will inevitably be some potential visual discontinuity in the video at the point of the cut; and, that gap you show is about 5 seconds, I think. Is a "silence" of such a length really a problem?
Jeff
Video Deluxe Premium is exactly the same product as Movie Edit Pro; the latter is its name for English speakers, the former for German and other language users.
No, there is no way for MEP to find those audio silences, sorry. You will have to cut out those passages manually, i.e. make a cut at the beginning of the "silence", another cut at the end and then delete the section.
Personally, I would not normally consider doing what you want, because: there will inevitably be some potential visual discontinuity in the video at the point of the cut; and, that gap you show is about 5 seconds, I think. Is a "silence" of such a length really a problem?
Jeff
I thought that there wasn't a way of cutting them automatically but i thought was worth to ask. the example is just to explain there may be a lot longer "silence" and for the kind of content i create i don't mind visual discontinuity. I will keep doing that manually as i have been doing it so far. Thanks for your reply!
Hi
Is there any reason why you cannot stop/start the recordings between scenes?
This is the 'standard' way of making a movie and would avoid the issues of finding every 'silence' making 2 cuts and deleting the silent section - you would still have to trim the start and end of the scenes, however assembly is easier and IMO quicker.
The process would be add a clip, trim it, add next clip trim, repeating the process until all the lips are added - if the mouse is set to Mouse mode for single track or all tracks - see image below- then, as you add and trim, the gaps will close up automatically.
In either your method or the above Keyboard shortcuts help speed up the process after positioning the timeline cursor for the edit - Z = trim start of clip, U = trim end of clip, T = cut, Ctrl + Del = delete cut section and close gap may help.
HTH
John EB