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[sjlouis]

Hello,

I use "Cutlisteditor" (OpenPli 2.1) and "Executive Cuts" to cut the beginning and the end of a movie when I want to delete what I don't kneed but I haven't find how to cut 1 record in 2 records when I have recorded 2 movies in 1 record. It was very simple on my previous recorder. Somebody has an idea?

Thank you.

[hemispherical1]

I would guess that you would have to copy the movie and run cutlist on each copy...

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hemi

[Erik Slagter]

Yeah indeed, the cutlist editor cannot split movies.

[MiLo]

The "cutter" can write to a new file, so if you do it in two steps, there's no need for a copy of the original.

[sjlouis]

I thought of copying the file before cutting the 2 records but it's long and not very convenient.

MiLo, can you explain your technique? I don't see how you make. I try to choose the option "the cut part in a file .cut" but the results are astonishing.

[ims]

you can execute cut with first file into filename_cut and then again use cuteditor on original file...

[sjlouis]

I tried 2 things :

1°) With the initial record, I put a mark on the beginning of the file as "beginning of cut" and I put another mark as "end of cut". I used "Executive cuts" and chose to put the cut part in a .cut file. The cut part was in a .cut file, I could rename it and the "good" part kept the good name. But the initial record was 1000 MO, the .cut part was 700 MO and the "good" part was 900 MO. There is a problem because 1000 <> 900 + 700.

2°) With another record, I inserted a mark "remove before" and I chose "put the removed part in a .cut file" with "Executive cuts". But the 2 files gave the same result, I've lost the beginning, the sum of the 2 files was bigger than the original file and when I read the "good" file, it started at the good moment but there was an indication as the part before was already read. It seems I can't read it but it's always in the file.

I think my tries are not very interesting or I missed something.

[Erik Slagter]

I don't think you understood the suggestion well.

The suggestion is that you run the cutlist editor twice and also the moviecut plugin twice. The crux is that you specify a different output file on both moviecut runs. Of course you will need to reset the cuts and make new cuts inbetween.

Please also note that the moviecut plugin cannot cut on a per-frame basis, it can only cut on complete gops (which are usally 1/10-1/5 second long).

[sjlouis]

Sorry but effectively, I haven't understood the suggestion and in more, I'm not easy in English.

I read your suggestion and I have a problem to understand or I don't use the good plugins. First, I use Cutlisteditor to insert marks and immediately later I use Executive Cuts (is it the same that Moviecut?).

If I run Cutlisteditor, I have to run Executive Cuts immediately after? If I run Cutlisteditor twice, I only insert all the marks in the same file, is not it.

Then, with Executive Cuts, I have only 4 choices :
- don't cut
- replace the original movie with the cut movie
- place the cut movie in a new file ending with "cut"
- advanced cut specifications…

I can't create a file with a personal name but I can take the .cut file and rename it.

And after this operation, the original record has disappeared, so I can't use Cutlisteditor another time.

Sorry but I'm incapable to understand how to do it .

[Erik Slagter]

I read your suggestion and I have a problem to understand or I don't use the good plugins. First, I use Cutlisteditor to insert marks and immediately later I use Executive Cuts (is it the same that Moviecut?).

Yes indeed. It's actually called "execute cuts" but that's not that important.

- advanced cut specifications…
I can't create a file with a personal name but I can take the .cut file and rename it.

Here it is...

[sjlouis]

Ok but as I explained it, I have not a good result : the "good" movie and the cut movie were the same, I've lost what I've cut and the 2 files were bigger than the original file (original : 1000 MO, the 2 files : 900 and 700 MO).

I am going to try again. I maybe made a mistake.

Thank you.