On 18/04/2012, at 10:00 PM, [email protected] 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. :) But THAT is what I like about avidemux, a video editor for bears of little brain (Winnie thur Poo, AA Milne) <ctrl>C <ctrl>V (maybe <cmd>c for Mac, I don't recall) etc obvious usage with none of this timeline nonsense. James _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
