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The Magical Tutorials of PowerDirector
Welcome to the magical tutorial kingdom of PowerDirector 4. Spend as much time as it takes here to find out information about how our magical editing tools assist you in conceiving out-of-this-world home movies easily and quickly. That's why they call it magic.

 Magic Cut  Magic Music  Magic Motion  Magic Clean

Magic Cut Tutorial
 

Have you ever experienced:

  • boring home movies long on monotony, short on action
  • shoddy camera work, unbalanced colors or poorly lit backgrounds
  • countless hours in the cutting room trimming unwanted video content
  • painful times trimming frame-by-frame but never quite succeeding

If any of the above ring true, you are in the right place to learn about how to apply Magic Cut to your video. Purging useless video content with Magic Cut is practically instantaneous. With a click of a button, your original video will be divided into a number of shorter clips/scenes that will noticeably increase the pace of your story and dramatically decrease audience attrition rates!

 

To perform Magic Cut on a video clip, be sure you have already imported the clip into your project's library and have applied it to the timeline.

1.

Select the clip in the timeline. Click Magic Cut button located on the timeline. The Magic Cut dialog box prompts you.
2. Here, you may drag the sliders to set your settings.

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The following options are available:

  • New duration: Enter the preferred total duration of all the new clips after Magic Cut has been applied to the original video clip.
  • Scenes with zoom/pan/motion: Scenes' selection based on the degree of zooming, panning, and motion
  • Scenes with people speaking: Scenes' selection based on the extent of dialogue
  • Duration of scenes selected by Magic Cut: Divides and cuts up the original video into clips depending on your preferences for a longer or shorter clip duration
3. Click OK.
Note: If the video segment you are using is shorter than 15 minutes in length, has been previously edited (e.g. a theatrical release), or contains extremely important moments, you may prefer to edit it manually - for example, by using the Multi Trim function. See the User's Guide for more information.
 
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