Splitting and saving files

[Shards]

I've tried to look into it, and the help files aren't all that helpful in the matter. Is there a way to take a video file, chop it into little bits, and save the bits seperately without needing to cut/paste into a new file? I really hope so, as this is one of the two things I got the program for. Any assistance would be appreciated.

[Mystix]

Your question isn't really clear to me. Can you explain in a different way or elaborate?


So, for example; Let's say you had a 1 hour video, but you wanted to make it into 6 separate videos (10 minutes each). Is that the idea? If so, then yes, it could be done easily enough with either cutting or trimming the video accordingly at the 10 minute intervals and the make each one as it's own video file.

[Shards]

Yes, but how would you "make each one as it's own video file"? That's the part I'm stuck on. A different program I used (but quit because of instability) there was an option to mark a video file at different points and, when exporting, split along the marks and save each split file seperately in one render. That's basically what I'm after.

1) Take big file and split it.
2) Save the file as smaller files according to the splits.
3) As efficiently as possible.

[Mystix]

One way to go about it might be to be in Advanced mode.

Have your video imported and added to a track accordingly.

Use the Envelope options; towards the bottom you'll find it, then move to select the start and ending points of the Envelope; the area will be highlighted in blue. Then from there you can choose to either "Trim"; which will trim off what's on the left and right sides of the envelope area, or you could choose to Trim Start; which will trim-off what's to the left of the selected enveloped area, or Trim End; which would trim-off what's to the right of the selected enveloped area. You could then "Make Movie" and in the rendering options check the option for "Render loop region only" along with your according video rendering choices you want.

After it's done, you could then click the "Undo" button a couple of times or in Normal mode drag-and-hold the edge of the video to expand it, then, back in Trim mode again, move the beginning Envelope-marker and drag it past the other Envelope-marker, to select your next porton you want to render as a video. Do the same steps as before. Repeat as required.

Anyways, that's just one possible menthod you could try, depending on what you want to do.

If you want to save each project file separately, as you have a selection Eveloped and then Trimmed accordingly and "Save As..", so you can have Part1, Part2, Part3, etc...

Ok, hope that helps. Good luck.

[AdmiralVonGilbert]

It's a pity - what you are looking for is possible using Render Assistant ( http://vasst.com/store/productivity-tools/render-assistant.aspx ) - you could use regions, and than store them into seperate files. This is a feature only Vegas Pro offers, so 10 $ is justified.

BUT: I can't get it to work with the Steam version Movie Studio. It simply is not loaded. So we need to wait for a comment from the developer, I've sent them a mail... It loads perfectly in the trail version from sony's website.