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Video Edit Magic v4.47 |
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Editing Techniques to
Remove Unnecessary
Footage |
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A good video flows from
one event to another.
Including scenes which
are confusing, boring,
or just unnecessary
distracts your audience.
To hold their interest,
you need to remove shots
that don't help to
advance the action, make
your point, or show
something worth seeing. |
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Video Edit Magic provides you two easy
ways to remove
unnecessary footage:
cutting and cropping. |
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Here are three common
types of unnecessary
footage in a video |
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Moments of
confusion-
When you
start
shooting
your
subjects
(i.e. your
family
members) may
be slightly
confused
about
whether the
camera is
on, should
they start
talking,
etc. Film of
someone
hesitating
is
unnecessary
footage. It
does not say
anything
about the
video's
story. |
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Drawn-out
action-
A video should engage the viewer, with a sequence of events keeping his/her interest. Keeping the viewer’s attention is difficult when an event takes a long time. While editing, you can remove footage of long, drawn-out actions. |
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Filming
problems - If some of the footage is shaky, uses the wrong camera angle, or doesn't properly frame the action, you will want to cut it out and not include it in the final movie. |
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Video Edit Magic
makes it easy to remove
video footage.
Video Edit Magic’s Timeline consists of tracks like video, audio, visual effects and transitions, which can be used for editing. The Timeline is where video and audio clips are placed for editing. |
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The following controls
can be used for editing. |
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Selection sliders: To edit parts of tracks, it is necessary to select them. To cut or crop, use the Selection Sliders to choose the range you need to remove. The sliders Selection Sliders (with the red handles) are highlighted and labeled '1' and '2' in the above illustration. If you want to Cut, Copy or Crop a particular section, drag the Selection Sliders' handles to enclose a particular area of the clip. Any operation (Cut, Copy, Crop) will affect the area marked by the Sliders. |
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Seek sliders: To mark a point on the Timeline to preview or Split, use the Seek Slider. Drag the Seek Slider (using the blue handle) to the exact location where you want to Split. The Preview Window always shows the video at the exact point on the Timeline shown by the Seek Slider. When you Play the Preview, the Seek Slider moves across the Timeline to match the video and audio being played. |
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Now that you are familiar with the Timeline, you can begin editing. Edit commands are on the Edit menu, except for Split Timeline and Split Track, which are on the Tools menu. |
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Cut
and Delete- Both Cut and Delete remove footage from the video and audio clips. The difference is that Cut puts the removed footage into the Windows Clipboard, so that it can be Pasted to another location on the Timeline. |
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Crop-
Cut deletes the selected range in the Timeline.
Cropping
deletes
everything except the selected
range.
When you Crop, only the portion you have selected using selection sliders is kept. Everything outside is removed. You can select exactly which tracks to crop, from one to all. |
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Crop |
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Crop
Source- Crop Source works like Crop, deleting what is outside the Selection Sliders. The difference is that Crop Source only affects clips which are touching the Selection Sliders. Other clips are not changed. In the diagram below, there are 2 clips on video track 1. The Selection Sliders are only touching Winter.jpg. After Crop Source, only the unselected portion of the first clip is cut. The second clip is unaffected. |
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Resizing
clips- The starting and ending points of a video clip can be adjusted by just dragging the left or right edge. Resizing clips lets you change the duration without losing any of the action in the clip. Of course, if you make a video clip shorter by dragging the edge, the action will be speeded up. If you make it longer, the action will slow down ("slow motion"). Changing the length of audio clips this way will change the pitch of the voices (higher or lower). |
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Splitting
Timeline- When you choose to split the timeline, you can cut any or all of the clips that are under the Seek Slider. If you click the split button or choose Split Timeline from the Tools menu, the Which tracks would you like to split? Window appears. You can split any selection of tracks. If you select all the tracks, the result is much like cutting a layer cake, with cuts appearing in every layer.
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Splitting
tracks-
Split a single clip if you want to use only part of it, or insert another clip between segments of it. Just click Tools, Split Track, and then click the mouse at the point where you want to divide the clip. Once it's split, you can move or delete any portion. |
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While Crop removes video
footage across tracks,
Crop Source removes
footage on a single
video clip. To use
Crop or Crop Source you
can use the following
steps: |
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From the File menu, click Open File. |
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Select
the media
files that
you want to
edit and
then click
on Open. |
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The
media files
will be
displayed
under the Media Files tab of the Collections window. |
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Select
track Video 1 or Video
2 where
you want to
place clips. |
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Select the
file by
clicking it.
On the Edit menu, click
on Add to
Timeline. |
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On the View menu, click
on Selection
Sliders or use the F5 shortcut key
to show the Selection
Sliders. |
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Drag the Selection
Sliders from their
handles and
select a
range of the
timeline
that you
want to
retain. |
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On the Edit menu, click
on Crop or use Crop Source. |
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Once you have finished
redundant, boring, or
just unwanted footage,
it's time to take it to
the next level: applying video effects, using Transitions, adding Narration, and more.
With Video Edit Magic,
editing can be fun.
Astounding video effects
like animated transform help you create a
masterpiece
effortlessly. |
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