Appologies for the subject header, but ive just spent two hours, using NERO Vision Express 2, trying to cut out chunks from some downloaded video (from my VHS) so that I can put whats left it onto DVD. Ive achieved absolutely nothing as, I havent a clue what im doing! (Very new to this). I managed to cut a bit from the start but when I try to cut later, (5 mins in) it appears to cut from the start again! Please help... Frustrated is an understatement!
Yeah, the editing interface is not that good. If it turns out you want to delete something from the beginning or end, you have to do it differently than other editing internally within the stream. Plus, what you already edit is not really taken out, so, an incorrect edit can end up removing previous edits and leaving you with the original source again. Editing from the start and end of streams is, for me, the parts where it is easy to make mistakes and get weird results. What exactly are you trying to cut, in terms of precise times, starts and ends, etc. I'm no expert on it but, I'll try and recreate it with some similar test streams and see I can generate some small instructions that might also help to explain in general how to best handle its interface. BTW, I also highly recommend after each change in NVE, that you save your work. Then, go into the folder where you saved the work file and rename it with a number, e.g. 01, 02, etc. and each time, you increase the number. That way, if you make a mistake, you can go back to an earlier part and not lose all of the work. It's not uncommon for me to have had 15 such saved files to fall back on.
OOPS! I made a big mistake! I wrote the original post with the exact OPPOSITE steps because, as I said, the editing is counterintuative to what you'd expect! So, if you've tried these steps before, please retry with this, which is the final, edited version. Or should be final. Okay, just had a need to edit some material with NVE. AFTER updating to the latest revision (11) because the last one simply didn't work! Anything imported that had previous worked, and anything at all just crashed the app, generating a huge log of relative nonsense, to me, that it wanted to send. So, here's a little bit from what I'm doing now. 1.) Double click a Video Title you want to edit from the Content main menu. 2.) Click on the red scissors Cut button. (Color schemes are on my PC, so, it may be different on yours.) It IS important to do this FIRST otherwise, you will end up editing nothing or deleting the wrong stuff. One of the interface problems. It is a bit counterintuative. 3.) When the scissors button is yellow/gold, you're in "editing" mode. There will be two slider tabs at the start and end of the video stream. They are blue with white scissors drawn in them. In between the sliders, will be a bar of crossed red X's. Here's something important thing to remember about the interface. What you will delete will actually be IN the bar with the red crossed X's. Not OUTSIDE the bar. So, you are selecting what will be deleted, despite how it seems to appear the opposite. 4.) Mark where you want to START deleting the video by moving the left tab slider to the starting point of where you want the video to be deleted. Move the right tab to the end of where you want the video to be deleted. 5.) Press the yellow/gold Cut button again when you are ready to actually delete. You're then asked a Yes/No question, that, IMO, never made much sense in the way it's worded versus what it is. I just choose Yes. I rarely choose No because that just means I've split the video into two parts and must manually delete the other half I don't want. So, why take two steps when one will do if you just select Yes? 6.) Important: remember to press the Cut button that second time to actually do the delete! Otherwise, if you just press the Next button, the delete will NOT be done! Press the Play button to test what WILL remain and what will play, which will be the area(s) NOT in the red crossed slider. The empty, gray area between the cut points is what is kept and what will play. 7.) If you edit internally within a video, it slightly changes. Meaning if you choose to start at some point other than the beginning of the video and choose to stop at some point other than the end of the video, you will notice that the video is split between the two SAVED parts. HOWEVER, pressing Play will ONLY preview that ONE part! To preview the other part, you must select it and press Play. Or, you can preview it in the DVD menu screen by going forward a few screens with Next until you get to the Preview screen and then going back to the Content screen. 8.) Select Save to save your work file to some folder. Open the folder and rename the saved file name you just saved to something else. Otherwise, the next save WILL overwrite the file. So, let's say you have a 5 minute video you want to trim and want to remove the video that starts at 2 minutes precisely into the video and want to delete everything from that point until 3 minutes and 15 seconds precisely into the video, keeping the first 2 full minutes and the last minute and 45 seconds of the original source video. In Step 5, you'll want to move the left tab when in editing mode (e.g. the Cut button is yellow/gold) to 00:02:00.00 and move the right slider tab to 00:03:15.00. Then, press the yellow/gold Cut button again. Notice that when you do this internal editing, on the edit screen, there will be the two halves that are remaining. Play will only preview the one chunk you have open. To view the entire edited stream, you must go to the DVD preview menu. So, from the Contents menu, and I would remind NOT save UNTIL you're sure the edit worked right ; press Next twice to get to the Preview screen. Then, select the button to make sure the edited video behaves as you intended it to. Hope that helps.
