MEP 2016 Plus - Subdividing 90 Min. HD Interview For Improved Editing

CarpentersMate wrote on 5/3/2025, 3:18 PM

Hi Gang

Nice to see my old friends again: Ray - Andy - AAProds - John EB - John CB - Jeff, etc.. After long lapse, now 77 years old, still battling Neurological Illness. Always appreciated your patience here. Would like to divide a 90 min. MP4 Movavi Screen Capture (from Skype 1908x888 44.1Hz 27.7 Frame Rate), into labeled segments. Drag the entire piece onto a Magix timeline, split/separate, label/title each topic, then drag individual pieces onto a different timeline, (a different final master project)? (Or) keep ALL media on one large MEP timeline and use brackets to export final the piece? Of note, there will eventually be various other formats imported as well. Would like to make final export 1080P? Thank You Very Much ...

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AAProds wrote on 5/3/2025, 7:45 PM

@CarpentersMate

G'day Mike, I'd use the "multiple movie/timeline" approach. That will make adding titles, start and end fades and most importantly visualising the whole shooting match easier than just having it all on the one timeline/movie.

What you are doing is creating a Multi-movie project. Each movie is represented by a tab on the timeline. You can create a new movie by either clicking on the + sign to the right of the last (right-most) movie or positioning your Play marker where you want the next movie to start and then hitting ALT+Y. This will split at the marker and put everything to the right of the marker into a new movie on a new tab/timeline. Various options exist on the small down arrow eg rename that movie, re-order the movies.

You can then either export each movie/tab, or do the whole lot, in batch, using the File>Batch conversion feature.

All in all, it works very well for processing a long recording which contains disparate contents. I sue it all the time for processing 3hr VHS tapes which contain all sorts of unrelated stuff.