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The first one - the 114kb one - worked like a charm! Thanks to Thomas and to SteveK.
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Okay - that's the only way I was able to figure out, too. I can do it. It just takes time.
Are you implying that version 14 would allow me toproduce and save individual clips as separate videos?
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Thanks - I don't know what Scene Detection is. Can y ou tell me how to access it? I can select individual clips, each of which has the video of one exercise, just by clicking on the clip - but I don't know how to save that individual clip separately from the rest of the video.
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Okay - from that reply I assume that there's no way to separate the clips into individual videos, other than to re-edit the original video once for each new individual video. Each time I re-edit, I remove all but one clip from the Timeline, Produce that one as an individual video, save it, close PD12, rename the video to the name I want it to be (rather than "Produce 0" and so forth), and save it to that name. Then go back to the whole original video, re-edit again, removing all but one clip..... It can be done of course, but it's tedious. Please let me know if I've understood you correctly.
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I'm sure there's an obvious way to do this but I haven't found it.
My wife shot a video of one of our dogs performing a variety of exercises as preparation for a competition. Each exercise must be submitted to a judge as a separate video, with a separate title.Unfortunately she did not turn off the camera between exercises, so all exercises were on one long video. I've edited the video and have split it so that each exercise is on a separate clip. How do I save each clip as a separate title? I'm hoping I don't have to re-edit the original video multiple times, removing all but one exercise for each separate video submission. That would work, but it would be cumbersome.
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Thanks Carl and Jaime-esque - That worked perfectly, and it worked much better than trying the rotation in Power Tools. After brightening and a little sharpening and color adjustment, the resulting video clip is in the process of being uploaded to Vimeo. I knew there would be big bars of black, and that's fine.
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I've been sent a single-clip video (it's a cell phone video of one of my dogs using a treadmill) which is oriented very awkwardly. I want to edit it, and part of that is that I want to rotate it 90 degrees. Normally that would involve using Power Tools, cropping, and rotating the cropped video 90 degrees. But when I try that, PD 12 always stops working. The only choice is to close the program and start again. I've inserted a link to the video, so you can see the problem.
https://youtu.be/or2wa-bLqiI
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It worked! Reoriented the clip just as it should have been. Of course, in the time line, it's still upside down - but that's only a minimal distraction. Thanks!
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My new cell phone takes fairly good video, for a cell phone, but the clips are often displayed upside down in PD 12. Fine - I know how to flip them using the Modify module. Today I had a new problem: the video clips are flipped upside down, and also flipped right to left. Using Modify, I can flip them either L to R, or upright - but not both L to R and upright. For the video I did today, the L to R orientation matters, and of course there's no point in producing a video which is upside down.
How can I reorient my clips so the subjects are upright in the final video, and also in the correct L to R orientation?
Thanks -Bill Hansen
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Thanks for that tip, but the driver is the current one. I went to the HP website and checked there.
I think the next thing I'll to - and it will have to be Aug 8 or 9 - will be to put this little video on Vimeo and see how it displays from there. I doubt it will make any difference, but it's worth a try. Then, of course, I also have to display it on my TV.
Bill
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Thanks for the clarification. Last night I increased the refresh rate for my main monitor to 75, but it didn't help. In fact, it made the "tears" more obvious - wider, and lower in the screen. I set the refresh rate back to 60 Hz.
It will be interesting to see if the phenomenon shows up on the TV.
Bill
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That does make sense. The term "tares" as it applies to video is new to me. Can you tell me a little more about the appearance of your "tares"?
I'll put that little clip on the TV and see if the lines show up. Do you have any suggestion about how I might avoid the problem, or minimize it? I never see those lines in HD videos I see online. (But maybe those are already quite compressed??? The best of them sure do look good though - better than my own HD videos.)
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Most of my videos have very occasional, randomly occurring instants of "dark lines" which snap down from the top of the monitor screen. Duration of these is about 1/10th to 1/20th second. They seem to begin at the top of the screen (viewing on a 24 inch computer monitor, or on a 20inch laptop screen) and "snap" about 2-3% of the height of the screen. They occur regardless of the bitrate or display size I render the video. They always occur at the same place, in seconds, on a single video clip - but they occur at *different* places on each video clip. Otherwise their occurance is random - there might be two of these flaws in 10 seconds, an then no more of them for the next 60 seconds, and so on. They're not a major annoyance, but they're a flaw which I would like to avoid. Can anyone tell me what they are and how to avoid them?
I'll try to attach a very low res clip, which should show the flaws at 2 seconds and 11 seconds. Please try not to be too critical of the other aspects of this clip. I'm sending it only to demonstrate the flaw mentioned above.
Thanks - Bill Hansen
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Okay - that clears it up. I'm going to experiment with starting out in CD2 and then moving to PDR. **My** trouble is that I get overly compulsive and perfectionistic, so I tend to tweak too many things in CD2. I'll have to damp down that tendency.
Thanks again - Bill
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Pix - Thanks for your reply. There are at least eight tutorials on the page you linked, but none of them seems to address moving multiple clips from PDR to CD2. I know how to create a preset in CD2 and apply it to one or more clips in PDR. I know how to move individual clips back and forth between the two programs. I'm still missing the procedure for moving multiple clips from PDR to CD2., other than to move them one at a time from PDR to Cd2.
Bill
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CD2 is excellent, but it takes quite a while to import a single clip into the program. Is there any way that a few clips can be imported at one time?
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Thanks - uh - I guess I must have left the impression that I don't know very much at all. Sorry about that. - Bill
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I almost never use auto exposure. My very strong preference is some form of control, keeping the ISO as low as possible, thinking about whether I want a deep depth of field or a shallow one, whether I'm photographing (or shooting video of) a sports event, wildlife, a social occasion, etc. Each subject has its own demands. Right now I'm practicing with a reasonably long focal length lens, 100-400mm, because I'll be doing wildlife on my next trip. I'll be using the 400mm focal length most of the time on this trip. It's been years since I've had the chance to shoot wildlife, and it's been both a humbling experience and an entertaining one, to re-learn some of the skills I had "back then".
Bill
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Thanks Carl - That's very welcome reinforcement of my own experience. I asked the question about shutter speeds because a member of one of my photo groups (Cayuga Nature Photographers) insists that shutter speeds must be slow, well below 1/200. There are also multiple postings to some of the DPReview forums which claim that shutter speeds faster than ~ 1/150 will result in "harsh" or jerky video.
There are times when the light is bright, and even at ISO 100, the shutter speed would be 1/500, or more. If the shutter speed *had* to be 1/150 or slower, I'd need a ND filter, which could be a nuisance. Those faster speeds have seemed to work for me, when the light is adequate.
Bill
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I often read that slow shutter speeds are necessary when shooting video - something like 1/50 second if rendering at 30 fps, or 1/100 to 1/150 if rendering at 60 fps. I've shot a few video clips at 1/320 to 1/500 and I don't think I see any ill effects. What am I missing? What should I be seeing if I've shot at too high a shutter speed?
Thanks - Bill Hansen
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