How do I remove a scene from the middle of a movie I am try to edit?

HarrierMan wrote on 9/2/2015, 5:07 PM

The question below was posted by 'Trying' on 15 June 15:

"Hi everyone, I have downloaded a trial of MEP Plus 2015 and Imported an mp4 fie.

I am using timeline view, and all I want to do is select a small piece and remove that from the movie.

I am not sure how to select the piece I wish to cut out, and this is what I have done so far.

I added a start bracket [ at the begining of the piece I wish to remove, and an end ] one at the end of the piece I wish to remove.

Yet no matter which of the cut options I use, the most I have acheived was to cut my movie clip in half, or delete the first or last part of it, or remove the whole scene / movie.

Could someone tell me how to correctly sellect the piece I wish to remove, and then how to remove that piece, and please include which selector tool I should use, ie, the arrow that selects objects, or the symbol that selects a whole track or what ever is correct.

Thank you kinldy for helping."

I am having exactly the same issue as the original poster. Unfortunately, I still haven't discovered what I'm doing wrong despite several hours of watching video clips and reading manuals and posts, including the answer to the above!

I am in timeline mode, I move the brackets (on the line above the little still pictures that has an open padlock to its left) so that the scene I want to remove is in blue between the brackets and everything to either side is grey. I can confirm by clicking in [>] to play this scene that I want to remove. I then click on the little triangle at the bottom right of the razor blade to reveal more options and click on the Remove Scene option. As soon as I do, everything seems to disappear; there is no video in the preview window or on the timeline - I can press Play but nothing shows. Am very frustrated at the moment and like the original poster am hating the program at this stage. Can only hope my opinion will also change when I learn the secret.

Please help save my sanity; thanks.

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browj2 wrote on 9/2/2015, 10:23 PM

Hi,

I am working on a tutorial to show just this plus some other basic editing features. Forget the brackets; those are to define a range.

Here is one simple way to trim out a section of video. Set the playback marker in a clip where you want to cut and press on T (Cut) or the razor blade - the clip will be cut. Move the playback marker along to where you want the end of the cut out part to be. Press on T or the razor blade and the clip will be cut. Click on the part to be deleted, and while holding down Ctrl, press on the Del key. The section will be deleted and the gap closed. If you just Delete it, you will be left with a gap. Then you will have to close up the gap by moving everything that is to the right towards the left. You can change the mouse mode to multi-track to do this, or everything that is on the same track. The Mouse mode button is near the razor blade. It is the slanted arrow.

Here is a quick video as to how to do it.

HarrierMan wrote on 9/3/2015, 9:34 AM

Hi,

I am working on a tutorial to show just this plus some other basic editing features. Forget the brackets; those are to define a range.

Here is one simple way to trim out a section of video. Set the playback marker in a clip where you want to cut and press on T (Cut) or the razor blade - the clip will be cut. Move the playback marker along to where you want the end of the cut out part to be. Press on T or the razor blade and the clip will be cut. Click on the part to be deleted, and while holding down Ctrl, press on the Del key. The section will be deleted and the gap closed. If you just Delete it, you will be left with a gap. Then you will have to close up the gap by moving everything that is to the right towards the left. You can change the mouse mode to multi-track to do this, or everything that is on the same track. The Mouse mode button is near the razor blade. It is the slanted arrow.

Here is a quick video as to how to do it.

Thank you so much; sanity gradually being restored.