Producing in both PAL & NTSC, also multiple delete of clips

Ian26

Senior Member Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Joined: May 17, 2014 08:08 Messages: 188 Offline

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Nov 02, 2014 17:59

I have recently returned from a holiday in Canada, Alaska & UK, and currently editing the videos. I want to send copies to friends in Canada. Being from Australia, we use the PAL system. Is it possible to also produce copies in NTSC to send to Canada.? UK is no problem.

Also I have 95% completed the first of 2 videos. To keep the interest in them when being viewed, I have decided to try and keep them to between 60 & 80 minutes maximum. The first is being trimmed to 75 minutes, but there are clips at the end which I want use in the second.

How can I do a multiple delete of clips - YES I HAVED SAVED THIS FILE! I'm keeping the first 20 seconds or so for the second project, but want to delete all the clips from there to the start of the last 8 minutes. I have used Crtl+A to highlight all the clips, then when I click Ctrl+C to deselect the last 8 minutes, the scrubber went back to the start without deselecting those last 8 minutes. How can I achieve this to keep the last 8 minutes, without having to select each clip individually to delete/keep them?

Thanks in advance

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Nov 02. 2014 18:20

IanB
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tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Nov 02, 2014 19:28

Higlight the first clip, scroll to the last clip you want to remove an hold down the shift key and click that last clip. Right mouse click, select remove/ remove and move and move clips on the same track. I found that the other option did not work because of chapter markers. You could also use Alt+Del keys if you remove all the chapters in your project first.

tomasc

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Nov 02, 2014 19:37

To create a ntsc DVD, just change in preferences/general/Timeline frame rate to 30(ntsc) dropframe yes. Be sure to change it back to pal after you finish making that ntsc compatible DVD.

Ian26

Senior Member Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Joined: May 17, 2014 08:08 Messages: 188 Offline

Nov 05, 2014 17:39

Tomasc said
To create a ntsc DVD, just change in preferences/general/Timeline frame rate to 30(ntsc) dropframe yes. Be sure to change it back to pal after you finish making that ntsc compatible DVD.

The frame rate on the footage is normally 50FPS(Pal). Do I make the NTSC setting 30FPS or 60FPS?

Thanks. IanB
PowerDirector Ultimate 18.0.3801.0 (64bit)
Dell XPS 8700, Win 8.1
4th generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 processor (6M Cache, up to 3.4 GHz)
Nividia GeForce 720 Version 372.54 GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz (4GB x 2)
2 x 1TB 7200RPM SATA Hard D

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Nov 05, 2014 17:54

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The DVD created should have a frame rate of 29.97 fps.