How To Export a Clip

abrogard wrote on 9/10/2017, 6:58 AM

I just posted earlier and found some answers for myself while waiting. I got the media thing undocked so that's good and I've got the imported wmv file playing and in the timeline.

So perhaps now I can mark and select a segment of this file that I want to keep. It's a 38m file. there's a segment about 1m I want.

I've selected 'copy' but I can't find where to paste it. When I try 'paste' it seems to substitute the selection for the whole file I had there before.

I'm thinking it should start another 'track' like audio editors do and put it there for me.

Am I wrong? Does Magix not work like that? Does everything video have to be done on the same timeline? I tried that, tried pasting it at the end of the existing, at the far right, in the blank spaces, and it seemed to just destroy the existing, which I want to keep.

What am I doing wrong?

How to just take a little selection and get it out of there, back down onto the disk as a file of its own?

I'm using win10. An Asus H170.

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johnebaker wrote on 9/10/2017, 10:05 AM

. . . . Am I wrong? Does Magix not work like that? Does everything video have to be done on the same timeline? . . .

In brief, yes, no, and no.

What you want to do is export the video range selected.

After you have selected the range you require, select the required export format and ensure the 'Export selected range' option is checked as shown below, in this exampleit is an mp4 export.

If you want this as a final video then select the required format, if you intend to use this in another project then select the Magix video MXV format to maintain quality.

HTH

John EB

browj2 wrote on 9/10/2017, 10:28 AM

@abrogard

Hi,

I suggest that you watch my two tutorials, especially the second one to learn how to edit, cut, trim and move objects about.

Basic - the interface, importing trimmed clips, etc.

Second - cutting and trimming

John CB

abrogard wrote on 9/10/2017, 10:03 PM

Right, thanks for the help. I've managed to cut out a section and export it as MP4. Good.

Now I find it wants finer detail cutting out. There's occasional totally black frames where the microscope was switching objectives. I would like to cut them out. But finding them in the preview window is about impossible and there's only three frames displayed on the timeline.

Can I somehow set it so's it shows every frame on the timeline? I've been trying to find a way to manipulate it like that but can't. And couldn't google the answer either.

I'd see in a flash the frames I didn't want then.

johnebaker wrote on 9/11/2017, 2:38 AM

Have you read the installed PDF manual available under Help?

If not I would suggest you do - all these basic functions etc are covered in it.

You can zoom in on the timeline using the + and - buttons at the bottom right of the timeline.

Alternatively play the timeline when you see the flash press the space bar to stop and then use the left arrow key to move back one frame at a time.

HTH

John EB

browj2 wrote on 9/11/2017, 9:28 AM

"Can I somehow set it so's it shows every frame on the timeline? I've been trying to find a way to manipulate it like that but can't. And couldn't google the answer either."

I do believe that I covered how to zoom in on the timeline in the first tutorial that I referenced above. Did you watch it? Do you know what the mouse modes are?

And, maybe you should also watch my first tutorial to make sure that you have everything. I believe that I showed multiple movies in the project as well.

To copy a clip, hold down Ctrl and drag the clip with the left mouse button to another track. The copy will move; the original will remain. Then move it where you want.

abrogard wrote on 9/12/2017, 11:50 PM

don't know what went wrong there... I wrote a fairly exhaustive response and it has all disappeared...

not going over that again...

How do I know what it means by 'a movie' ?

I mean from all the clips I've got on the various timelines?

I thought it would mean the one I had highlighted, which was a 10 minute cut. Bottom one of all.

Only one not muted.

Set it to 'export a movie' (top right hand corner) and it took three hours and produced a 1 hour movie.

What?

p.s.

hmmm... which seems to be all blank.