How to Optimize a show

scottinojaivideos

Newbie Joined: Mar 10, 2012 23:17 Messages: 8 Offline

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Mar 10, 2012 23:23

I swear one time I was able to choose an option to optimize a show so the show size was minimized. Does anyone know where that is in PD10 Ultra, or was I just dreaming it one night.

I shot six minutes of video and trimmed out all but six seconds of it. I feel the show is much bigger than it needs to be.

If not an automatic optimization, how can I crop out and save the six seconds I need either in PD 10 or with another program?

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Mar 11, 2012 01:59

Whoa G.Scott! That's a doozie of a question...

There's nothing like that in PD that I've seen.

In PD, once you've trimmed out the stuff you don't want (in your case 5 minutes 54 seconds!) and you're left with the 6 second clip in the timeline, go to Produce & make your format/profile selections (probably as close to your camera clips as possible). Click Start.

I think you're right about it being another program... or a dream...

Cheers - Tony
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scottinojaivideos

Newbie Joined: Mar 10, 2012 23:17 Messages: 8 Offline

Mar 11, 2012 03:26

Thanks for the quick response. I'll stop looking.

Xerox

Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Aug 09, 2009 01:36 Messages: 446 Offline

Mar 11, 2012 04:09

Possibly you are referring to Magic Cut (scissors icon) on left of tracks. Gateway DX4380, AMD A8-5500 Quad Core 3.2GHz with ATI Radeon HD 7560D; 16GB RAM; 1 TB SATA 7200 RPM; Windows 8 Pro 64-bit; PDR11, PDVD12.