George Hilton
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Q: Three hour video cut to one and a half

Hi

How do I cut down a 3hour video that is in FCE to 1 and a half hours so I can put it on  iDVD?

2.93GHz Intel Core i7, Mac OS X (10.6.7), Memory 8GB also Mac OS X now (10.7)

Posted on Sep 18, 2014 10:35 AM

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Q: Three hour video cut to one and a half

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  • by David Harbsmeier,

    David Harbsmeier David Harbsmeier Sep 18, 2014 5:21 PM in response to George Hilton
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    Sep 18, 2014 5:21 PM in response to George Hilton

    You have a few options:

     

    1. Find  suitable place halfway through the video that you can make a clean break (fade to black).  Cut (Command x) everything on the Timeline after that and paste (Command v) it into a new Sequence ad add a fade in from black at the beginning.  Then you can make two DVDs with close to the same duration (2 disc set).

     

    2.  Edit out an hour's worth of the program so it doesn't exceed two hours (iDVD can handle two hours).

     

    3. Use Toast to compress and burn the DVD so all footage fits on one disc.

     

    4. If iDVD can author dual-layer discs, use one of those.

     

    -DH

  • by George Hilton,

    George Hilton George Hilton Sep 19, 2014 1:22 AM in response to David Harbsmeier
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    Sep 19, 2014 1:22 AM in response to David Harbsmeier

    Hi David

    I have had that meany problems with FCE that I uninstalled it to reinstall but noe when I insert the DVD it says that FCE is all ready installed so I uninstalled with cleanmymec and now I can't install because it says can't install my Mac is too update, It's 10.9.4. Any idears what to do?

    Thanks

  • by MartinR,Helpful

    MartinR MartinR Sep 23, 2014 2:18 PM in response to George Hilton
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    Sep 23, 2014 2:18 PM in response to George Hilton

    If you get dual-layer DVD+R DL media you can put up to about 4 hours on a single disk.  iDVD can handle this just fine, so can the DVD drive (superdrive) burner in your Mac.

     

    I use (and can recommend) Verbatim Datalife media, the dual-layer variety comes in both silver and white-inkjet-printable surfaces.

  • by MartinR,Helpful

    MartinR MartinR Sep 23, 2014 2:24 PM in response to George Hilton
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    Sep 23, 2014 2:24 PM in response to George Hilton

    Well, sorry to have to say this, but CleanMyMac has a very bad reputation. Given the problems users have reported with CleanMyMac,  I'd strongly recommend you remove it from your Mac posthaste.

     

    Mavericks 10.9.4 is another issue ... FCE was discontinued over 3 years ago (even before Lion 10.7 was released).  What version of FCE do you have?  I don't think anything prior to FCE v4 will install on Mavericks.

  • by George Hilton,

    George Hilton George Hilton Sep 23, 2014 11:53 PM in response to MartinR
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    Sep 23, 2014 11:53 PM in response to MartinR

    Hi MartinR

    I have FCExpress 3.5 HD so does it mean that I have wasted my money?

    Thanks

  • by MartinR,

    MartinR MartinR Sep 25, 2014 4:14 AM in response to George Hilton
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    Sep 25, 2014 4:14 AM in response to George Hilton

    I have FCExpress 3.5 HD so does it mean that I have wasted my money?

     

    Understand that FCE 3.5HD was discontinued back in 2007; and FCE 4 was discontinued in 2011.  They are no longer supported and we're all on our own using them on Lion or later versions of OS X.

     

    I haven't used FCE 3.5HD for years; the last system I ran it on was either Tiger (10.4) or Leopard (10.5) so I really can't advise you about its compatibility with Mavericks (10.9).  It may work, it may not.  You'll just have to try.

     

    You *may* be able to use Pacifist to install FCE.  The FCE installer itself is an old PPC application.  On Intel Macs, Rosetta support was required to run PPC apps but Apple discontinued Rosetta with the release of Lion (10.7) - that's probably the reason you can't install FCE now that you are running Mavericks.  Pacifist doesn't use Rosetta.