trimming a FINISHED video for length

antiman

Newbie Joined: Dec 16, 2017 12:45 Messages: 29 Offline

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May 10, 2018 14:50

i finished a rather lengthy home movie today and spit out a produced copy. it looks great but there was a 'turned off and unused' LONG song down under the bottom of the screen i didn't delete, so the movie has a LONG black silent ending, (over ten minutes of blackness) i figured i'd reload the project, delete that track and spit out another, but now when i open the project NONE of the audio tracks show up! some were edited for length so i can't merely drop them back in quickly.

is there an easy way to simply trim the length off the end and save it? i feel like quicktime could do this but i'm not sure if it would degrade quality...

or would you guys recommend using the produdced copy, separating the video/audio and deleting the video and using THAT audio? then reproducing a new copy?

thanks for any help folks!

AVPlayVideo

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May 10, 2018 21:02

It is easy to add the long video in the timeline, position the cursor between the end and beginning of the black image, Split and delete the black part.
Follow to Produce and select Intelligent SVRT, if accepted and working 100%, make a copy of your video, fast and without degradation.

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antiman

Newbie Joined: Dec 16, 2017 12:45 Messages: 29 Offline

May 11, 2018 16:01

[quotePostId=311660]It is easy to add the long video in the timeline, position the cursor between the end and beginning of the black image, Split and delete the black part.
Follow to Produce and select Intelligent SVRT, if accepted and working 100%, make a copy of your video, fast and without degradation.[/quotePostId]

thanks for the reply, i didn't know if producing (again) would degrade...

BUT! i did, prior to reading your reply, discover that i could 'trim' the file within the windows app on my machine 'movies and tv'. it had the option to trim, the saved copy wasn't 'reproduced', it was just shortened and saved. the overall file size barely changed, so problem solved, and it took a few seconds...

thanks again