Copy and Paste

Havn't received my copy of Movie+4 yet (but only ordered yesterday, so can't moan to much) - but can someone advise if I can do the following.

Cut a bit of a clip out, manipulate it, and then paste it back in behind the original (and pushing everything else back.

Example of what I mean - local football game - player scores, so I want to the copy the goal, play it in slow motion, and then continue where I left of.

I have played with a friends copy of Adobe Premier, and could not work out how to do it. Thought it would be simple - but oh no. I would be extremly surprised if I could not do it - but would like to be re-assured on this lovely saturday night.

thanks

Lee

Yes you can. But you don't have to cut the section out and paste it back in. You can set a keyframe where you want to start, set the play speed, set a final keyframe where you want the speed to go back to normal.

Steve W

I'm afraid that isn't possible in MoviePlus 4, play speed can only be adjusted for the whole clip.
Look out for keyframable play speed ("velocity envelope") in a future version though!

Jon White

Well, poop! Its seems like it SHOULD work, though!

Oh dear - looks like customer support need informing - I asked specifically about this (got to have slow-mos in football!), and was told it was not a problem.

Unfortunately, this means the software is going to make a quick return - as this is a must have.

unless Serif can think of another way around?????

Lee, when I said it was not possible, I was referring to Steve's suggestion to use keyframes to dynamically change the playback speed over the course of a clip (i.e. gradually speeding up/slowing down). This is not (yet) supported in MoviePlus.
However, slow motion definitely is supported; see my reply below.
Hope this helps,

Jon White
MoviePlus Developer

ah - thank goodness for that! OK, looks like I'm not going down the Post Office with the software in hand after all!

Without having yet received the s/w (and being generally ignorant of video editing at present) - keyframes/velocity envelopes mean nothing to me (yet...).

Out of interest, is there any place within this website (or elsewhere) where examples of Serif Movieplus clips have been produced, so that us with 'limited imagination' can see Serif putting the s/w through its paces, and tben displaying the results. This would also be a advertising scheme.....

http://www.serif.com/MoviePlus/Movie...4_inaction.asp
Jon White
MoviePlus developer

Hi Lee,
This is easy to do in MoviePlus 4.
One way would be to split the clip, insert another copy inbetween the two parts, then trim this clip and set its play speed.
Hope this helps,
Jon White