Possibly the Dumbest Question Ever

[Mark1x]

Hi, with some embarassment I have to ask this incredibly dumb question; I'm either daft, lazy or have too much on my mind but how do you actually crop some footage from some video?
I have the video captured and in the timeline, and i'd like to set two points and delete the material between these two points, but how? If I double click to bring up the preview monitor it doesnt seem to offer what I want. I should mention that there are several seperate sections I wish to delete. Sorry to have such a basic question! but I'm in a rush and it doesnt seem intuitive. I did try the preview monitor and clicking on "set in" and set out" but this just gave me one section of footage whereas I want to delete multiple sections.

If anybody can be bothered with this trivia i'd really appreciate very simple info as I am a total beginer with elements. Thanks

[Bobby]

HI Mark. Welcome!

Set the CTI (current time indicator) by clicking or sliding in the timeline to the first point. Make sure the clip in question is selected (purple). Click the Slice Clip tool (looks like a scissors) and that will split the clip into two pieces. Go to the end point and do the same thing.

Then just highlight the middle clip, right click and select Delete and Close Gap.

Let us know if you need further explanation.

[Cinde]

Hi Mark,

Not a dumb question at all.

PRE v7, (hopefully it’s the same in prior versions also)

Between the monitor and the timeline are several icons. Near the right side is a pair of scissors.

On the Timeline highlight the track that has the video to be edited and place the Time Line Indicator at the beginning of the area you want to delete. Click on the scissors.

Then move the Time Line Indicator to the end of the area you want to delete. Again click on the scissors.
Now put the cursor on the clip between the two scissors cuts you just made. Right click and choose either “Clear” which will remove only that section and leave a gap where the section was delete - or choose “Delete and Close Gap” which will remove the gap.

Welcome to Muvipix

[Mark1x]

Hmmm, I dont appear to have any scissors!! Is there an option to display the scissor tool?

[Bob]

In PE3 it's just below the monitor to the right of the play/pause buttons. It's labeled "Split Clip". You can also use the keyboard shortcut which is ctrl+k.

[Cinde]

Mark, is it possible that you have resized the monitor section? If you have made it smaller you will not be able to see some of the icons. If you have go to the top of the screen and click on Window… then choose Restore Workspace.

Here's where it is located on my screen in Version 7.

[Chuck Engels]

You can just position the CTI at the point you want to cut and press CTRL + K, that will cut the clip too.

[Mark1x]

Thanks guys. Imust have had the monitor resized, I have closed the elements and re opened it and there it was! I now am trying to export to DVD but my DVD player is broke so I use a external DVD player which is showing as "not ready" in the burn dvd window. My external DVD is in perfect woking order but it keeps reverting to the broken drive. Is there a way to tell elements to use the external drive? I click on the drop down list but it then rescans and reverts back to the internal drive. Any thoughts?

[Chuck Engels]

You can disable the broken drive, that would keep Premiere Elements from seeing it.
Right click on 'My Computer' select 'Properties' then 'Hardware' and finally 'Device Manager'

Locate the DVD/CD Drives list and right click on the broken drive, then select 'Disable'.

[Mark1x]

Thanks Chuck, I'm sure that would have worked but I tried a different make of dvd and it worked so I guess the media was faulty. Nothing straight forward is it!!

[Chuck Engels]

I guess it's always something isn't it

The right media is very important, never use the store brands like Staples or Office Depot, never use Memorex or Imation.
I have used Verbatim for a long time and no problems.