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Thank you Dafydd and Carl312.
I made an ingest folder on my desktop and copied the complete card over to it and verified I could open the files from the hard drive folder in PD.
I left the option to delete from the hard drive checked in Preferences so I can simply right click and delete. I like this, because I can be sure just the proper files are deleted and not worry about leftover xml or thumbnails, should I have tried to do it manually in Windows.
Now I can feel confident about reformatting the memory card to clean it up. Good advice and I missed the preference option to delete from the hard drive the first time I went through the Preferences.
One more question: when one Produces a film via the 'New Project' process, the original in camera clip is not altered, correct? So I can make as many versions/new projects as I want and be sure that the original in-camera file is unaltered? If so, is there any time I could accidentally alter the original in-camera file through playing around in PD?
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OK, I didn't have luck with the transparent PNG idea (no doubt my lack of skills atm with PD.)
I did try the idea of the 2x grid tool in the cropping window and found it 'almost' worked perfectly. By unchecking the 'snap to lines', I could pretty well nail making a 1/4 box, but the problem was it inevitably made a path for zoom/pan when I moved the desired crop size over the section I wanted. Then I found that by placing the blue circle as best as possible OVER the green triangle, I could ALMOST eliminate motion and zoom. I didn't see any other way. I don't want ANY zoom or pan effect in these types of crops.
Now, I tried the Keyframe tool suggestion and love that your suggestion of setting the Height and Width scales to 2.0 gives the perfect size crop, no fiddling. But, I still haven't solved the 'don't want any zoom or pan' problem. I don't see a little blue circle I can move over the green triangle. I did try setting the motion coordinates to 0.00, but that just moves the box back over to the start point of the 4K photo.
Is there a way to move that box to the desired section of clip, but keep motion and panning to NIL over the whole clip?
Many thanks.
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Thank you playsound and optodata.
I think I will try out the 2nd suggestion of making a png file since, if I am successful, it would serve as a 'template' I could reuse.
I like the idea of being able to move it around via Modify. But I am new to NLE's as well (but know Photoshop ok), so rather than trouble you for a video (that's generous!), I'll see how far I can get on my own, but ask again if I have trouble
This solution would be great, because although I've been looking at other alternatives for cropping and then reimporting back into PD12, I was wary about losing quality. I tried Avidemux (they have a nice selective crop filter), but was not successful in saving the file into a readable format. I either didn't have the (daunting) preferences set correctly, or it didn't play well with my camera's (Sony FDR-AX100) files (records 4K by MPEG-4 AVC/H.264). I'll have to look at MovieStudio again (it was free with the camera) to see if they have a manual selective crop, but I like PD so much better.
Question for optodata: why not a 1920x1080 png instead of 960x540? 1920x1080 would allow me to see placement better...
I really appreciate the response.
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I like to shoot macro and would like to make clean HD (1920x1080) from selected crops of 4K video (my camera does 3840x2160). Example: an insect might be in the lower left of a video. I can see the 16:9 ratio is kept, but I can't see how many pixels before I click 'OK', and I'd like to lock on to 1920x1080, or choose my pixel count.
Can someone please tell me if this is possible? I looked in the Guide and couldn't find an answer. Thanks.
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Hi, I'm new to NLEs and video, but not at all to photography. When I wanted card space or to look at still images, I would just delete specific unwanted files i.e., jpeg/tif/nef etc. I could do this directly from Adobe Photoshop/Bridge or just by using my camera or Windows File Manager.
But when I look at my memory card in Windows 8.1 for a way to delete a clip, I see one realtime video clip spread out over different folders.
Example, PRIVATE>M4ROOT>THMBNL and also PRIVATE>M4ROOT>CLIP which further shows MP4video and XML file.
I want a simple way to make clean deletions of unwanted clips from my memory card (currently 64GB XDXC) without worrying about screwing up. I tried bringing up a clip in PD12, but don't see a DELETE clip function in the menus. Am I missing something?
Also, what's the best way to transfer a 'complete' clip to my hard drive? This way, I could transfer just the wanted clips and then just delete whatever is left on my memory card. I'm confused because of the many files associated with the clip. The way I like to edit is to get rid of 'junk' (things I don't want) and focus on the remaining hopeful clips.
So far, I'm having a blast with PD, but need to learn pronto how to manage files! Thanks.
I shoot with the Sony FDR-AX100 (does 4K).
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