Cut options

[Sante]

I beg your pardon, but since my German is only at a beginner level, may be that you already answered this:
Instead of selecting the parts that you want to keep, wouldn't it be possible to select those that you want to throw away?
Sante from Italy

[bb]

Why do you ask for such an option? Because you are used to the way VirtualDub handles this? I'd say most cutters - except VirtualDub - follow the mark-in/mark-out paradigm by keeping, not dropping, the marked region.

bb

[Sante]

Well, since I have to edit several Mpeg, sometime I just need to perform one cut, and doing one selection is swifter than doing two.
I thought that, from a programmer point of view, it shouldn't be a big problem to implement the option.
At any rate the program works greatly anyway. Thanks.
Sante

[TheHorse]

I cannot quite follow you. When I have a recording with following scheme
commercial + content + commercial
I want to cut off the commercials. Now I mark beginning and end of the content and get what I want. Same way as Project X does.
The way you propose means that I have to mark leading commercial in + commercial out and afterwards trailing commercial in + commercial out. That means 4 cutpoints against 2 in the present way of handling.
I prefer the way it is! I have a test version of a software for my receiver which works your way. But I will never get used to it.

[Sante]

I understand you, but my work is a bit different, because I do not use Schnitt to edit movies etc. I have a lot of DVDs which are archives coming from conversions of S-VHS, which I demux for other people to use in Pinnacle Studio9 (converting AC3 to MP3 as well, because this dumb Studio doesen't accept AC3).
Sometime I just have to cut something in the middle of the file.
Thanks the same.