need some basic help please

violindave wrote on 1/26/2016, 8:42 PM

I'm new to Movie edit pro 16

I am a long term Samplitude user with Pro x 2

I have a music video from a gig

I am trying to split it up, selecting and saving short clips. I then want to save each as its own project so I can then use these for youtube, marketing etc

Can someone please give me simple instructions for doing exactly this?

I did search the help and forum but could not find the answers there. Sorry if this has been explained elsewhere and if it has and the explanation is simple to follow please direct me there

Thanks in advance!

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emmrecs wrote on 1/28/2016, 9:01 AM

Dave, I am not a Samplitude user but I suspect you are quite used in that program to cutting a (long) audio file into short sections and then saving each one as a new file. If so, essentially the process is the same in MEP.

Open your full video file by dragging it to the timeline in MEP
If you wish, go through the file and mark the beginning and end of each section that you wish to keep
Save the complete file as a .mvp project; this will save time as you work
Still with the file open on the timeline, select the first part that you want to keep (as a new project), by setting the cursor at the point where you want this section to begin and press "T" (=cuts the file and creates a new clip); repeat this for where you want the section to end. You then have a short file for "Song 1" or whatever you want to call it.
Delete everything else on the timeline
Move the file to the beginning of the timeline
Save this project with a new name
Close this project
Re-open your "complete file project" (the full version)
Repeat the process from bullet point 4, but choosing the "second song".
Continue until you have each "song" saved as a separate project

browj2 wrote on 1/28/2016, 11:34 AM

Hi,

Further to what Jeff indicated, there is another way.

First watch my tutorial on getting started in MEP to make sure that you have everything. I hope that you purchased either the Plus or Premium version and not the basic version. If so, you may want to go back to Magix and ask about changing. Basic is too limited in its functions.

Stay in timeline mode; ignore Storyboard. At about 10 minute in the tutorial, I show how to set up multiple movies in a project. In your case, do this and make a movie for "song" or project that you will want. After splitting the video following Jeff's instructions, copy each clip into its movie - Ctrl + C on the clip, click on the correct movie tab, Ctrl + V to paste. Now you can edit each movie individually or you can export each movie to an MVD file, which is essentially an MVP file.

If you want each song as a separate MVP project, then open a new project, give it the song name. Right-click on the tab which has the movie name (it's the only tab) and import the corresponding MVD. Save. New project, new song, etc.

If your goal is to produce a DVD of all of the songs, then you are best to have only one project with multiple movies, one per song. Then when you go to make the DVD, there will be a menu item for each song. Once you have all of your songs in separate tabs (movies) you don't need the main one anymore and you can simply delete the tab by clicking on the X at the right of the tab. Doing it this way allows you to easily copy effects and titles between the movies, whereas it's not so simple when you have separate projects.

Edit: In case you're interested at some point in the future, I managed to link MEP and Sam Pro X2 as master/slave so that I could edit in both at the same time. I will put together the instructions as to how to do this. It's best to have 2 monitors and you need 2 output channels - I use the sound card for one and my external M-Audio M-Track for the other, connected to separate speakers.

HTH

violindave wrote on 1/31/2016, 8:58 AM

Thanks for your responses!!

I pretty much figured out the procedue in browi2's post by trial and error bfore seeing your post. Yes it is pretty tedious but it works