On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:
On Apr 15, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:
I am not sure which version of Wine to install from Macports (there
are three), or if this is even the right approach for what I want to
do.
The goal: Edit a "movie" (screen recording), from the view that 80-90%
of what I recorded will be tossed.
iMovie is a failure (as far as I can tell) as selecting sections and
removing them.
Pretty sure you can cut frames with iMovie.
I am completely unable to manage selecting frames and deleting them
with iMovie. Maybe there's a trick that I don't know.
Things/commands/keystrokes behave differently when there is a
selection inside the current clip and when there is not.
Things behave differently when you are working with a clip in a
project vs an event clip.
I cannot find a way to adjust the left/right ends of a selection
without simply moving the selection -- the length of the selection
does not change when I try to adjust the start or end point of a
selection.
I want to be able to say "This selection is what I want to toss", and
at other times "This selection is what I want to keep".
Not reallly how iMovie works.
What you need to do is just insert 'cuts'.
Say the following is your video:
------------------------------------------
Now say you want to remove a chunk in there, you would just 'cut' it in
front of band behind where you want, effectively making 3 separate videos
that are now strung together.
----------|------------|------------------
Now just click on the middle section and remove it
Video editing is a little different mind-set from editing pretty much
anything else. Think of your video as a long section of tape, or even
film. If you want to remove frames from a section of film, you cut on
either side of it and remove it, then splice the two ends together.
Since you're all digital now, the splicing is automatic, even giving you
the chance to add a transition for dramatic effect.
It's been a while since I've done anything in iMovie, but that's the
gist of it.
But now we're way off topic for this list. :)
--
Michael Parson
Unix Thug
Austin, TX
KF5LGQ
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