FCE - how to break up a meadia file?

[ChrisA]

I'm actually reading the Final Cut Express user manual. Some place down around page 251 it reads....

...If you capture an entire tape as a single media file, you can break the clip into shorter subclips. You can also break the media file into smaller media files.

I can not figure out how to do the "break the media file into smaller media files" part.

What I'd like to do is

1. capture the whole DV tape to the scratch disk
2. make a bunch of subclips
3. break up the big media file
4. Delete the parts of the media file that I don't need (that are used by none of the subclips)

I know I can get the same effect by making some in and out points before I capture but scrubbing the physical tape is to slow

I'll be happy if you just give my a page number to read. I've looked

 

[Texas04]

Dont have it open but if you clip the parts you do need and place them in the timeline than right click them there should be an option to make it an independent file or somethin rather.

 

[patsherr]

FCE - how to break up a meadia file? Reply to Thread

ChrisA,

Some time ago you posted the above question. Were you able to find out how to do it?

The user manual states that one should be able to do it but makes no reference to it: ie

Lengthy media files can be unwieldy for editing. If you
capture an entire tape as a single media file, you can break
the clip into shorter subclips.You can also break the media
file into smaller media files.

Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[jla930]

Put your long clip into the Viewer. In the Mark menu, select DV Start/Stop Detect. This will place markers at each place where your camcorder stopped and started. Then in the browser, click the little black triangle next to the name of the large clip to show all the newly created segments. Select the segments, then go to the Modify menu and select Make Subclip. These new clips will appear in your browser.

 

[midge50]

Could you also take the larger file, open in Quicktime, then TRIM the parts yo want to work with? Seems pretty easy way to get the parts that you want to use and dump everything else quickly.