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Elmo27376 wrote on 8/28/2005, 1:18 PM
Steve
The simplest thing is to just drag the event ftom the Media pool to the timeline in the place of the two parts of the event you split. That event will not be split even though you split the one on the timeline.
Storyman wrote on 8/28/2005, 3:03 PM
...or you could simply remove the split to the right, then drag the split on the left to stretch to the following shot.
stevec5375 wrote on 8/28/2005, 4:40 PM
I can't remove the two events and add the original from the media pool because the entire movie started out as one large .avi file that I split into multiples events in order to add transitions.
stevec5375 wrote on 8/28/2005, 4:41 PM
I don't understand what you mean about removing the split on the right and dragging the one on the left to "stretch" to it.
Tim L wrote on 8/28/2005, 5:29 PM
All the "events" on the timeline are just references to the original file. They aren't really chopped up, separate little avi files. A particular event basically is just a link that says "use file ABC.avi, and grab frames a:aa:aa;aa to b:bb:bb;bb" and put them here in the video. Until you actually render and create a new file, everything on the timeline is just a little "note" that describes what part of what file should appear there.

Assume the event you accidentally split originally went from timecode x:xx:xx;xx to z:zz:zz;zz, and you put a split in it at y:yy:yy;yy. You now have two events, one from x:xx:xx;xx to y:yy:yy;yy, and one from y:yy:yy;yy to z:zz:zz;zz.

Click on the second event and delete it, then grab the right edge of the first event (right edge is at y:yy:yy;yy) and just drag it to the right to stretch it out to z:zz:zz;zz again.

Tim L
IanG wrote on 8/29/2005, 5:16 AM
If you're not going to move the events then the split isn't going to show. I think Storyman's / Tim L's approach is better, but you could select the events either side of the split and group them (Shift G).

Ian G.