cut video clip using VSDC; tutorial must have left something out

[arcy]

I have VSDC version 2.3.0.337; there is a tutorial from someone on this forum that does go through clipping out portions of your video using this software, but I think it must be for a different version because there are differences (like the labels on some of the buttons).

I can follow the video up through the point where I have marked a section, added it as a removed portion of the video, clicked on "apply changes", gotten the dialog that warns me that the length the video I'm editing has changed, and confirming that. I only have one MPG file, I'm cutting it down to 3 hours from 5.5 so that it will fit on a DVD; once I've done the above steps, the 'scene' appears shorter and shows the new 3 hour length.

However, when I tell the software to convert my project to DVD format, it converts all 5.5 hours of it.

How do I tell the software that the cut I just made should be reflected in the conversion to DVD that I make later? Surely it doesn't have to go through the lengthy conversion process on that part of the video that isn't going to appear on the DVD.

[Baldrick]

I would read http://www.videosoftdev.com/how-to-use-free-video-editor

Or get a real editor...they are not free though.

[arcy]

Any suggestions for a better editor?

I went to the how-to-use site you suggested, and read the topic on removing unwanted portions of the video. Those are very similar to the instructions i had already read; I've already done those steps. They appear to work, showing the cut-down video in the editor. But I don't know how to tell the converter to convert just the video with those portions removed. Is there some step they don't have that I'm leaving out somehow?

Maybe this will help somebody helpl me:

I've completed the operations to remove a portion of a video. Now, when I open the project, I have a screen like this:



Note that the project Griffith2 has a Scene0 which is 5.5 hours long. This is the length of the original MPG that I imported into the project. It is the only MPG I've imported into the project.

Also, there is a "Sprite:Sprite1" tab in the editor -- lower pane, in the middle of the window. Here's what it looks like:



I produced this by starting with the program in the state where it was in the last image, clicking on the "Sprite:Sprite1" tab, then clicking on the "Griffith2_1" video block -- the blue rectangle in the editor, middle lower pane. Note that it's duration (in the properties on the right) is 3 hours -- this is what was produced after I edited the original 5 hour vid to 3 hours and clicked "Apply Changes".

But when I tell the project I want to convert it, it appears to convert the entire 5 hour one, not the 3 hour "scene". How do I tell the software that it is the scene I want converted? Or, how do I save this project so that the scene is all that is in it, so that converting the project only converts that 3 hours? Or is there some other combination of operations that will get me a 3 hour DVD out of this project?

thanks...

[Kimdoc]

In the lower pic in your last post you will see a white vertical line at the original end point on the time line. Drag this line back to the end of the edited layer, then export.

There is a way to get the software to automatically shorten the length of a cut portion - when you click on 'save changes' in the cutting screen a window appears saying "Duration of source file changed. Do you want to change duration of object?" Click yes.

This is in version 2.3.1.339

[Innomen]

Thank you Kimdoc That is exactly what I needed to know

Gah, sorry, I didn't realize that was February of last year XD

I'd delete this post for necro but I apparently can't.

Party like it's 1995 /smh