I think the question that most, most about Lightworkers, apart from how do you use Lightworkers,
is how do you take a long clip and make smaller clips out of it?
In other words, if you've got a really long clip, but you want to make multiple indent out so that
you can use different parts of that same clip, how can you do that?
The answer is surprisingly quite simple.
So what I've done is gone to pixels dot com.
I'll put a link under the video.
It's a great site to get videos that you can use in your projects a little bit like video.
And I've just grabbed these two clips, which are slightly long.
I'm going to double click on this vintage car clip and note that I'm in log right now.
I don't want to think about edits.
I don't want to think about anything apart from the clip I've got.
So in this case, I'll just press a spacebar and we can just see what's happening with this clip.
So there we are seeing the radiator of a car, the grill, and then as it goes on, the camera should
change to a different angle.
And you can see that this movie is actually made up of an already edited series of clips.
Now, if I didn't want to use this whole movie, I could, of course, just mark in and and out.
So what I'll do is Marken in fast forward it to where it changes to the interior of the car, which
is roughly about their.
Use my Iraqis to just forward the frames until it changes like that and make that an out.
Now, normally that would be really easy market in, market out.
Go to edit, pick up your clip and put it down.
But in this case, we need to mark more than one in and out.
Now, of course, you could just jump back to here, market in and out, jump back here and so on and
so on.
That's not an efficient way to work because you're just slowing yourself down and you're actually making
your life a little bit harder.
So let's go back to log.
Let's take away the distractions.
I've marked this in and out as my first clip.
Well, actually, it's going to be a sub clip, so I'm going to right.
Click go to make and I'm going to click on subtlely.
Before I do that, I want you to just have a look over here on the left hand side at this menu.
As I go to make sub clip, you can see a new menu has come up called Subcamp.
And the little clip that I saved my in and out is now here as a sub clip.
I'm now going to go through.
Let's just Marken in and I'll take the interior of the car.
I don't need so much of it.
And I'll mark that as an out make that into a sub clip you can see that's collected over there.
Then the picture changes to the outside of the castle that's marked and in marked that an out right
click make sub clip.
And finally, I think there's a lastra of the vehicle across the road.
So we'll just mark that as an in there and an out there.
Right.
Click make sub click.
So what we've done now is really in a simple way.
We've taken a long clip and we've just cut it up into little sub clips.
Now let's go to edit.
You can see that my original clip.
So there's the drifting with cars in the vintage car.
They're just sitting there.
But in my sub clips, I have got all the new clips I made.
What I'm going to very quickly do is just no these as I remember them.
And what you should note is if you've got a really long clip, let's say you've got footage of a concert
or something like this and you need to cut it up into some clips.
It's going to get confusing really quickly because each clip will have the name of the original video
with just a number at the end.
This is far easier for me to remember.
So now it's just a case of treating the sub clips as if they were normal clips, I'm going to pick up
clip number one, throw that into the timeline a bit two and so on until I've got all my clips into
the timeline.
No, no, you must really thinking, why am I cutting it up if I'm just kind of recreating the original
clip?
But the point is, because we've cut it up, we now no longer have to treat it as if it was the original
clip.
So we can actually start off with the view on the road like.
So let's right click and close this gap and then we can go to the radiator grill.
We can go to number three and then have No.
Two playing at the end.
So using some clips, we now have full control of which part of the movie we show and when.
Now there is a warning I'm going to give you because I've seen people do this before.
And what I've seen is people will make all their sub clips and they will take, you know, an hour,
two hours, finally cutting their sub clips and collecting them and renaming them and then thinking
to themselves, well, I've got my sub clips.
Let me just delete the original one, because it's taken up too much space on my hard drive.
Now, that's a really big mistake.
And I'm going to show you by making that mistake in front of you, I'm going to go right click here,
delete this clip and say, yes, it's now gone.
Now, it doesn't look like anything bad's happened.
If I get a sub clips, you can already see something bad has happened.
If I rewind my movie to the start, absolutely nothing happens.
The problem is some clips are not actually physically clips.
They're just your ins and outs saved in this folder called some clips because you've now deleted the
original one.
Lightworkers cannot figure out where these clips are from and what this should show.
And it gets much worse than this.
So let me just re-import my original movie.
Let me do that right now.
And here you go of Imported, my original movie that we had the vintage car one.
Let's go to edit.
Let's go to some clips.
You would think that reimporting your original clip would take care of your sub clips, but in this
case, no, you lose your sub clips even if you re-import your original file.
And that would be heartbreaking if you had spent hours and maybe even days fine tuning YouTube clips
and then you did something silly, like delete your original file.
So that's a mistake not to make.
Remember, if you want some peace of mind, that original clip is taking up space on your hard drive.
The sub clips are taking up almost no space because they're not actually real.
They're just your ins and outs saved in a folder called sub clips.
So this video should solve the problem of literally the hundreds of questions I have got asked about
how to do multiple in and out in a single clip.