Editing original captured video

[Guest]

I suspect I know what the answer to this will be, but would appreciate
hearing it from one of the experts here...
Is it possible to edit (critically, reduce the size of) the captured video
file in any way once it is on disk? A couple of times when filming I have
mistakenly left the camera on record (unfortunately my model does not have an
auto shutoff) so I end up with loads of garbage (1/2 hr, once) in the middle
of the footage that I do want.
Once I have got it into a Collection and built a Project, I then want to
weed out all the unwanted bits of the captured video, to reduce the
unnecessary size of the dv-avi file. Is this possible? (I know you can delete
clips from a Collection, but this doesn't actually remove those bits from the
captured video - right?)
Or should I be selective when I do the capture at the outset and take only
the good bits that I want, rather than the whole footage including the
several GBs of very fine views of the ground and my feet?
Thanks
CW

 

[Toby Torgerson [MS]]

You can take your rough footage take it into moviemaker cut out the parts
you don't want and publish to avi., then reimport the published file to make
another project. Of course this method causes your rough footage to be
reencoded twice.