Can't delete blank space at the start of video

lisa-ferguson wrote on 10/1/2021, 9:41 PM

I have imported home videos into Movie Edit Pro but have found a 15min blank space at the start. It only shows in the preview window, the marker shows a 15mins gap before the first imported video clip. I can't see a way to remove the blank space. It's hard to describe, so hopefully someone understands what I mean

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AAProds wrote on 10/1/2021, 11:48 PM

@lisa-ferguson You should just be able to drag the first clip all the way to the left of the timeline to the 00 position.

Click on the double headed arrow at bottom right of the MEP screen <---->. That should display the gap at the start. You'll see the whole movie on the timeline.

Go into "Mouse Mode for Single Track": the mouse icon button pointing at the single black track below the Preview monitor.

Now, click on and drag the first video clip/object all the way to the left, which is the 00:00 start position.

In future, you can position the Play marker where you want the clip to import to, then import.

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My struggle is over! I built my (now) system 2 in 2011 when DV was king and MPEG 2 was just coming onto the scene and I needed a more powerful system to cope. Since then we've advanced to MP4 and to bigger and bigger resolutions. I was really suffering, not so much in editing (with proxies) but in encoding, which just took ages. A video, with Neat Video noise reduction applied, would encode at 12% of film speed. My new system 1 does the same job at 160% of film speed. Marvellous. I'm keeping my old system as a capture station for analogue video tapes and DV.

System 1

Windows 11 v23H2 severely modified by Openshell and ExplorerPatcher

Power supply: 850W Cooler Master (should have got modular)

CPU: Intel i7 13700K running at 3400mhz, cooled by a Kraken 2x140mm All In One liquid cooler.

RAM: 64gb (2x32gb sticks) G.Skill "Ripjaws" DDR4 3200Mhz

GPU 1: iGPU UHD 770

GPU 2: NVidia RTX 3060Ti Windforce 8gb

C drive: NVME 500gb

Bluray Burner: Pioneer BDR-212D

Various other SSD and HDDs.

Monitor: 27"/68cm Samsung, 2560 x 1440, 43 pixels/cm.

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2025

Magix Video Easy version 7.0.1.145

System 2

(Still in use for TV and videotape capture)

Windows 10 Home Version 2009

CPU: i5-750 at 2670mhz with 12gb RAM

Onboard IEEE1394 (Firewire) port

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4770 (512mb) which is ignored by MEP

Hard drives: C Drive 256gb SSD, various other HDDs.

Monitor: Dell 22"/56cm, 1680x1050, 35 pixels/cm

Movie Studio 2023

Movie Studio 2024

VPX 12

lisa-ferguson wrote on 10/2/2021, 3:28 AM

Thank you AAprods, it had been driving me mad and your solution sorted it! Not sure what went wrong in the first place but thanks for helping me sort it 😊