How get clips in a channel to line up next to each other automaticicly

Adam-Williams wrote on 10/20/2022, 6:32 AM

 

If you have cut out a lot of small clips in a channel. Is there a way you to bed one after the other automatically? I find it a bit tiring to manually add them one after the other. Is there any way to be able to just select them all, and then go to bed one after the other automaticly?

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AAProds wrote on 10/20/2022, 8:34 AM

@Adam-Williams

 

Assuming you're using a Magix video editor, This will work provided all the objects/clips are on Track 1: just bump object 2 up against object 1, then click on the Transition box at the start of object 2 (the orange and blue box).

The Transition menu will pop up, then go down to the bottom and choose "Apply to all or all following" and all objects will be butted up or otherwise joined by the transition you've set between Objects 1 and 2.

There is a "Find and close gaps" feature mentioned in the Help manual but in typical Magix fashion, there is no mention of either the menu that it is in, or the keyboard shortcut for it, if it indeed still exists.

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browj2 wrote on 10/20/2022, 10:24 AM

@Adam-Williams

Hi,

I presume that you are using Video Pro X. If you're using Vegas, your in the wrong forum.

Channels? I presume that you mean tracks.

Further to what @AAProds mentioned, watch these tutorials, particularly the third one. You should not be getting gaps when you delete a clip unless you want one:

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Adam-Williams wrote on 10/20/2022, 2:53 PM

Thank you for quick response.

I use magix pro X version 12.

The thing i need is to close gaps on a track automaticly.

Say I have a 2 hour video of a highway. Every time a red car passes by, I clip it out and place it on the track underneath.

Now I have 147 small clips on that track with various gaps bedween them. I can ofcourse drag and line them in a row without caps manually. But I hoped there was a way to select them all, and all the clips would be in a row without gaps between them somehow automaticly.

Clipping them with start or end delete. Will just delete the rest of the movie, where the rest if the red cars in this example I was searching for will dissapear.

browj2 wrote on 10/20/2022, 3:11 PM

@Adam-Williams

Hi,

There are two ways to do this. I assume that you don't need whatever remains between the red cars.

Method 1

Instead of cutting each side of the red car and moving that part to another track, simply set Mouse mode for a track,

  1. Go to where you want to cut for the first red car and press the shortcut " Z " which will cut out whatever is before the red car.
  2. Go to where you want the end of red car 1 to be and press " T " to put a cut.
  3. Go to the next red car and press " Z " which will remove the unwanted part and close up the gap.
  4. Go to where you want the end of red car 2 to be and press " T " to put a cut.
  5. Repeat 3 and 4 to the end.

This is what I show in the first Basic editing tutorial.

Method 2

Since you've already done the damage, select all of the red car clips, copy to clipboard (Ctrl+c), go to a blank Movie (I hope you know about Movies and the Movies tabs) and paste your red car clips onto track 1 or move them there. Right-click in a blank area of track 1 and select Find and Close Gaps. Done. I presume that VPX12 has this feature.

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Adam-Williams wrote on 10/21/2022, 2:02 AM

First method is working well. I wil use that in the future.

Second method: Here on my job, I have Pro X 14. This is what I get when I right click on a blank space.
I've tried different mouse modes.

johnebaker wrote on 10/21/2022, 2:59 AM

@Adam-Williams

Hi

The missing right click option would suggest you may be missing one or more patches in VPX 14, the latest version is 20.0.3.175, also ensure that your graphics card drivers are up to date.

HTH

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Adam-Williams wrote on 10/21/2022, 3:10 AM

Found it now after update. And it works very well. Thank you all. This was what I was looking for :) I have NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti. But It seems to render very slow when rendering HEVC to Wmv. I will create a new post asking for the right settings.

johnebaker wrote on 10/21/2022, 3:54 AM

@Adam-Williams

Hi

. . . . It seems to render very slow when rendering HEVC to Wmv. . . . the right settings . . .

Unfortunately there are no 'right settings' this is a hardware capability issue.

The RTX 3080 Ti supports the following video encoding formats for Hardware acceleration:

  • H.264/AVCHD, YUV 4:2:0, YUV 4:4:4, Lossless
  • H.265 (HEVC) 4K YUV 4:2:0, YUV 4:4:4, 4K Lossless
  • H.265 (HEVC) 8k
  • HEVC 10-bit
  • HEVC B Frame
  • AV1

WMV and any other formats, other than the above, are not supported - encoding is processed by the CPU.

HTH

John EB
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PC - running Windows 11 23H2 Professional on Intel i7-8700K 3.2 GHz, 16GB RAM, RTX 2060 6GB 192-bit GDDR6, 1 x 1Tb Sabrent NVME SSD (OS and programs), 2 x 4TB (Data) internal HDD + 1TB internal SSD (Work disc), + 6 ext backup HDDs.

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