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Breaking a clip into multiple files:
1
Select a clip from the Library or
Timeline.
2
Grab and drag a Trim handle to set the
trim position.
3
Click the Save selection as a new video
file button.
4
You now have two different physical
video files on your hard disk, the original
file (such as SOURCE.AVI), and a
trimmed copy (such as SOURCE-1.AVI).
Many times, when you make an edit, you may wish to make a permanent change to the clip and
save the edited file. Again, Ulead VideoStudio gives you a margin of safety in that it saves the
trimmed video to a new file and does not alter the original file. You can press the Delete key or
drag the thumbnail to remove it from the Library, or even remove the original file to recover
disk space when you are sure of your changes.
The method of trimming illustrated here allows you to use your original video file as the source
for a number of different clips in the Library. This type of editing does not affect the source file
anyway.
Notes:
•
To rename a thumbnail, click on the name of
the thumbnail and modify it in the same way
as you would in Windows Explorer.
•
Dragging a clip from the Timeline to the
Trash only removes the thumbnail. The
original video file on the hard disk is not
affected.
This Library contains five
versions of the same clip.
Selected clips are
highlighted in blue.
This clip is a trimmed version of the
original video file saved on the hard
disk. You can see at a glance that it
has indeed been trimmed by
selecting the clip and checking the
Options panel or the Trim bar.
Once the clip is trimmed, you can
rename the thumbnail in the Library
to avoid confusion between the
trimmed and the original. (See
detail on renaming in the notes
below.)
When the original clip is
reinserted into the Library, the
Mark in point is zero and the
Mark out point is the last
frame. The duration is the
entire clip. The Trim bar
clearly shows that the clip has
not been trimmed.