General advice for editing gaming sessions

7beauties wrote on 3/8/2014, 10:34 PM

I bought MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 2014 Plus within the last two weeks via Steam for editing my gaming sessions.  I use FRAPS or PlayClaw5 for capturing my gaming as AVI files.  What I want to do is take my long, 30-50 minute gaming sessions and condense them to fit YouTube's 15 minute limit.  I know I have to cull many subclips into a finished segment, but how can I keep the sound effects (dialogue, gun fire, explosions, etc.) without the music breaks? 

By all rights I should have a decent PC:

Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit OS

Intel Haswell Core i7 4770K CPU

ASRock Z87 Extreme9/ac mobo

16B of DDR 3 1333 system RAM

Dual Radeon HD 7970 GPU's with 3GB of video RAM each in Crossfire

Sound Blaster Recon 3D Fatal1ty Champion sound card

LG Blu-ray rewriter 

PC Power & Cooling 950W Silencer PSU

Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SSD

I'll read the MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 2014 Plus manual and watch all pertinent tutorials, but I hope some of you experienced users can provide me with tips.  Thank you.     

Comments

terrypin wrote on 3/10/2014, 6:01 AM

Hi,

I'm no gamer (chess and Scrabble apart!) so I may have misunderstood. But I'll assume that you have all your video and all your audio on MEP tracks 1 and 2 respectively. First, ungroup the audio by using the Ungroup tool (two separated chain links) or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+M. Then, to cut some of the video into shorter clips without affecting the audio below, place your mouse cursor in the video clip and make the cut.

Of course, if your total target is 15 mins, then that's the maximum length of your video, yet it sounds to me as if you could end up with much more music?

P.S. Nice h/w!

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK. PC: i7 6700K, 4.0 GHz, 32GB with Win 10 pro. Used many earlier versions of MEPP, currently mainly MEPP 2016 & 2017 (Using scores of macro scripts to add functionality, tailored to these versions.)