Merge cuts from multiple clips

[Der-Flip]

Love this tool! Especially for dashcam footage archiving it's brilliant, just extract the parts that are relevant and bin the big video.

What I kinda had hoped for was to be able to merge two segments of two clips into one. Let's say the action happens 3 seconds before the clip ends and the after math is in the second clip but still relevant. This tool makes it still easy to extract the full scene by merging into a temp file, then extracting the relevant segment.

I was wondering though, if it was possible to merge cut (multiple) segments from multiple clips into one directly. Like having clip a seconds 3-10 and 70-90 and clip b Seconds 10-25 merge cuts into a single file, just like the single clip merge cuts functionality.

I imported both clips (multi select in explorer, drag and drop into LLC. Then I selected the segments I needed of both clips. Merge cut would only export for the selected clip in the left sidebar though and I can't multiselect in the left sidebar.

Am I missing something or is that not an option?

I'm also a media designer and that would be an absolute game changer to create a first rough cut to then continue working with in any preferred video editor.

[mifi]

Hi. I believe what you're asking for is more like a NLE functionality like this #976
That is not possible and not sure if it's something that will be implemented.

[Der-Flip]

Well, not exactly the full nle approach.

Genuinely just the merge / concatenate but for the selected segments of the clips in the left sidebar, rather than the entire video, so that I save the extra step of merging all in a temp file which I then reimport to select segments to cut and merge. I don't need a timeline to rearrange, add pauses or any of that fancy stuff, for that I have premiere or resolve.

But if it's not possible I'll stick with the workaround of merging the two full clips and then taking the clip back in or exporting segments of both clips, then merging them. Thankfully since it's not transcoding there's not a significant amount of time lost^^

Thanks :)

[mifi]

Maybe it's the same as #2513 then?

[Der-Flip]

Yes. Basically, the files are coming from the same camera with all the same codec configurations.

Please do excuse my non-programmer ignorance. I thought, as I am able to concate two files of the same encoding, my thinking was a cut&merge&concate wouldn't be too complicated to introduce 🙈