Hi PointyHairedBoss -

Yes - you'd need to produce to save the trimmed clips.

2.7K isn't listed as a standard option, but if you click on the + button, it's available in the dropdown. See attached screenshot.

Cheers - Tony
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Fantastic - thanks for your help. Windows 7, HP Omen Pro 15, Power Director 16, Photo Director 9

I see that Powerdirector 17 includes a new feature called "Video Precut".
I'm still looking for an easier way to save small video clips from a large file of raw footage without going through the Produce step. Will this new feature do this? If I make precuts using this new feature are they saved independently of the original file, in which case I can delete the oringinal file to save storage space?
This would be reason enough for me to upgrade to 17 Windows 7, HP Omen Pro 15, Power Director 16, Photo Director 9

Quote I see that Powerdirector 17 includes a new feature called "Video Precut".
I'm still looking for an easier way to save small video clips from a large file of raw footage without going through the Produce step. Will this new feature do this? If I make precuts using this new feature are they saved independently of the original file, in which case I can delete the oringinal file to save storage space?
This would be reason enough for me to upgrade to 17

No, if you change anything on a clip, you have to produce it. There is no way out. But if you only cut some piece and do not change anything else (color, adding effects, stabilize, etc), you can use the SVRT modus. PowerDirector will analyse your footage, and if you did not change it, the source can be just copied into the produced clip. That is MUCH, MUCH faster than producing. And there is no quality loss, because the original data is just copied.


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As Hatti stated, PD isn't set up to do that task without producing the final result.

However, there are many free 3rd party tools that will cut out a section without re-encoding. Here is a site with 10 such utilities.

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Quote As Hatti stated, PD isn't set up to do that task without producing the final result.

However, there are many free 3rd party tools that will cut out a section without re-encoding. Here is a site with 10 such utilities.

Thanks, this is exactly what I want to do. Now I can save short clips from large raw video files & do the real editing later in Powerdirector. This allows me to immediately delete original video files, which can be 99% unuseable.

For anyone else looking at the above mentioned utilities, I tried both Gihosoft Free Video Cutter & Free Video Cutter (the first 2 on the list). I decided on Free Video Cutter & here's my brief review:.
In "options" you set the precision which is the number of equal length increments in to which the video is divided: 10-200, default being 60. You can extract a clip that is any number of consecutive whole increments. You also have the choice to create "video thumbs". I assume that these are thumbnails of all the increments but the process of generating them is so painfully slow that I closed the program before the process could finish.
The way I use the program is to watch my raw footage & note the times of the clips I want to keep. Then in Free Video Cutter, using a precision of 200 (smallest increments), I select the start & end of the clip using the sliders which snap to boundaries of the increments. The resulting clip is a little bigger than what I want but I can do final editing PowerDirector. Windows 7, HP Omen Pro 15, Power Director 16, Photo Director 9