How To Join My Clips

abrogard wrote on 12/17/2018, 3:36 AM

I just put 20 mp4 short clips on the time line. They've all lined up with a black bar between each one. that black bar seems to be the beginning and end of each clip.

Each clip was a short movie. I didn't make them. I downloaded them. They're episodes. A few minutes each.

So I thought that's good. It's sorted out the beginnings and the ends for me. I just can delete them now.

Because that's what I want to do. Just cut out the identical beginnings and endings of each episode.

But I'm damned if I can find out how to do it. I put the cursor on one and operate the mouse wheel - nothing. I left click - nothing. I right click - nothing. I look around for icons, buttons, clues...

I mean... I can't even sort of 'expand' any one clip along the timeline so's I can find where the beginning and end credits and stuff start... I can't seem to do anything.... I'm frozen in time....

Could someone help me out and let me know how I can go about this.

I have put a screenshot of the view on imgur:

https://imgur.com/a/yYM1rKx

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terrypin wrote on 12/17/2018, 3:45 AM

Hi,

Hard to tell from that low res screenshot, but it looks as if you’ve zoomed into individual frames?

Terry, UK

abrogard wrote on 12/17/2018, 3:50 AM

zoomed nothing that i know of. I have imported 20 mp4 files and dragged each one, one after the other, onto the timeline. each frame or square or whatever that you see there is one movie. You can see each one has its duration written at the bottom.

They're not successive numbers counting along a movie...

And low res? too low to see? I don't think so. I just looked at the imgur thing and my whole setup is pretty ordinary but using the + imgur thing it blew up so's I could see, for instance, those time numbers easy enough.

No. the whole thing I'm talking about is I can't zoom in. Cant do anything. I maybe I could if I knew how.... well I'm hoping I can when I know how...

emmrecs wrote on 12/17/2018, 3:58 AM

@abrogard

First, it is very helpful if you attach any screenshots to your post (see the up arrow in the blue circle in the "comment/reply" box). It saves users having to navigate to an external web site to view your image.

Second, I can see you are working in Storyboard mode; the easiest method, by far, is to do this procedure in Timeline mode. If you switch to that mode you will see each separate "episode", one after the other, in the same track. They will be a series of individual video objects (aka boxes on the same track) one after the other. You need to move the cursor to the beginning of each "box" in turn then use the left and right arrow keys to navigate respectively backwards and forwards by one frame (each arrow click = one frame movement) until you find the first of the frames you want to remove. Click one frame backwards and cut the movie (shortcut "T"). Repeat the procedure for the end of the cut, but this time, having found the first of the frames you want to keep,again click one frame backwards and press T.

You will then have two small boxes, which are the sections you want to remove. Simply hold down shift and click on each of these boxes; this will highlight them both. Then click Ctrl+Del; this action will remove the highlighted boxes and move the the next section forward so that it now joins up to (= plays back without a gap) the first section.

HTH

Jeff

abrogard wrote on 12/17/2018, 4:05 AM

Ha... sorry. On both counts. I didn't know you wanted the screenshots there - I just clicked the first thing I saw, the 'link' icon. And 'storyboard mode' ... I thought I was in timeline.... That explains why nothing was happening then. I was clicking the 'T' and doing all kinds of things...

Sorry for being so thick. I'm out of time for today, kids to attend to. But I think I should be able to power on tomorrow after that help.

yvon-robert wrote on 12/17/2018, 7:43 AM

Hi,

just select all clip on timeline using mouse or shorcut like CtrlA, and group it this give a group similar to one clip. Also you can export to obtain a movie and reuse as a single clip.

Regards,

browj2 wrote on 12/17/2018, 8:37 AM

Hi,

I suggest that you watch these two tutorials to get an understanding of how the program works: