Delete clip and Shift remaining clips and transitions
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| OpenShot Video Editor |
Fix Released
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Critical
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Hi,
Don't know if this is a bug or a feature request.
OpenShot is an excellent program, for me the first video editing program under Linux that works (well, nearly works, please read on).
My use of OpenShot is to import an mpeg2 video (recorded with MythTV), to cut out the lead-in, lead-out and commercials. Then export (transcode) the video thus obtained (to mpeg2 again). For export I use the "Simple Profile": All Formats | MPEG (mpeg2) | DV/DVD Widescreen PAL | Med.
Whatever I try (do I overlook something?), I can't get rid of the deleted clips (the commercials, etc). Yes, they are deleted all right, but after the transcoding process the deleted clips still turn up as a black screen. So the transcoded video is roughly speaking the original video with the deleted clips shown as a black screen.
The MS Windows video editing program I used until now, simply skips the deleted clips upon transcoding and what remains are the clips I want to see, concatenated together.
So, in OpenShot, I now shift the clips I want to retain to the left and concatenate them. Then the deleted clips are at the end and after transcoding they keep coming up as an extended period where a black screen is shown. For the time being, I live with this, but to my opinion this is not elegant, to say the least.
Oh yes, after deleting and shifting clips, I save the project as a new project, because only at that time I know the maximum length (duration) of the transcoded file I want to see and it is my understanding that upon creating a new project you can specify the maximum length of the transcoded file. No use, the deleted clips keep getting transcoded (as black screen).
If you are really of the opinion that this functionality is correct, then please add a checkbox in the Export Dialog where the user can turn off transcoding of deleted clips, because I can't imagine that I am the only user who finds these black screens unacceptable.
Some more usage data.
OpenShot, version 1.4.2.
Linux distro: openSUSE 12.1.
Kind regards and good luck with further development of OpenShot.
Related branches
| Andre Hasekamp (hasecomp) wrote | #1 |
| Olivier Girard (eolinwen) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in openshot: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Andy Finch (fincha) wrote | #3 |
| Andy Finch (fincha) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in openshot: | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| milestone: | none → 1.4.3 |
| summary: |
- Export video, but not deleted clips + Delete clip and shift remaining clips and transitions |
| summary: |
- Delete clip and shift remaining clips and transitions + Delete clip and Shift remaining clips and transitions |
| Changed in openshot: | |
| importance: | Wishlist → High |
| Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in openshot: | |
| importance: | High → Critical |
| Changed in openshot: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Yes, export including deleted clips remains possible, even after shifting the remaining clips "to the left", but let's call it "beginners bad luck" that I stumbled into it. In the meantime I know how to export files without the deleted clips, so let's not try to repair some seldomly occurring situations.
As far as I'm concerned, the only thing that remains is a feature request (but for me it has no high priority now that everything works fine): after deletion of clips and before export of the remaining clips it should not be necessary to shift these remaining clips "to the left". The export process will simply skip the deleted clips.