Trimming clips after capture to create more space

[thejessicastar1]

Is there any way to go back through clips that are on my hard drive and trim and delete parts of it that I didn't end up using in my project? I'm running out of space on my hard drive and wanted to free some up without losing what I actually need. I realize that the best way to avoid this would have been to do a batch capture and mark my in and out points, but b/c I was using my camera to capture (another no-no I did anyway b/c I couldn't afford a deck or another cheaper camera), I captured the whole tape with all the takes to avoid excessive wear on the heads by starting and stopping the tape constantly.

Any suggestions, or am I just out of luck?
Thanks
Nathan

 

[uhrgl]

I think you might be able to do this in Vegas by creating new subclips -- even if it works, it would be a tedious excercise.

Can you buy another hard drive or archive an old project to disc?

 

[thejessicastar1]

Trimming clips...

Trimming clips...

I'm working on a feature and it's the only project I've got on the drive (200gb firewire), so I don't have anything to archive. I only need to capture about two more tapes to finish the project, and I might have enough room, but I was looking to clear out a lot of excess takes and stuff like that. Buying a new drive is possible, but I was hoping to avoid it.

I was under the impression that when you create a subclip, it doesn't actually break down the original clip and remove the subclip, but instead just copies the portion of the original clip and creates a new, smaller clip. Is this wrong? If creating subclips actually removes the footage from the original clip, could I just create subclips of unwanted footage, then delete them from the hard drive? Not too sure how this works. Need to take another look at it.

Thanks for the help, though.
Nathan

 

[pmark23]

Save to a new file-name and directory, and select the "trim clips" option.

This creates a new project, with ONLY the bits of video you are using, plus a few seconds at the start-and-end of each clip for trimming.

I do this occasionally to back everything up to another drive, but it's also useful to clearing off the raw footage once you get close to the final edit.