2. D850 Online Manual
3. Movies
4. Editing Movies

Trim footage to create edited copies of movies or save selected frames as JPEG stills.

9Choose start/end point

Create a copy from which unwanted footage has been removed.

4Save current frame

Save a selected frame as a JPEG still.

• Trimming Movies
• Saving Selected Frames

Trimming Movies

To create trimmed copies of movies:

1. Display a movie full frame (0 Viewing Images).

2. Pause the movie on the new opening frame.

   Play the movie back as described in “Viewing Movies” (0 Viewing Movies), pressing the center of the multi selector to start and resume playback and 3 to pause and pressing 4 or 2 or rotating the main or sub-command dial to locate the desired frame. Your approximate position in the movie can be ascertained from the movie progress bar. Pause playback when you reach the new opening frame.

   

   Movie progress bar

3. Select Choose start/end point.

   Press i or J, then highlight Choose start/end point and press 2.

   

4. Select Start point.

   To create a copy that begins from the current frame, highlight Start point and press J. The frames before the current frame will be removed when you save the copy in Step 9.

   

   Start point

   

5. Confirm the new start point.

   If the desired frame is not currently displayed, press 4 or 2 to advance or rewind (to skip to 10 s ahead or back, rotate the main command dial; to skip to an index, or to the first or last frame if the movie contains no indices, rotate the sub-command dial).

   

6. Choose the end point.

   Press L (Z/Q) to switch from the start point (w) to the end point (x) selection tool and then select the closing frame as described in Step 5. The frames after the selected frame will be removed when you save the copy in Step 9.

   

   L (Z/Q) button

   End point

   

7. Create the copy.

   Once the desired frame is displayed, press 1.

8. Preview the movie.

   To preview the copy, highlight Preview and press J (to interrupt the preview and return to the save options menu, press 1). To abandon the current copy and select a new start point or end point as described above, highlight Cancel and press J; to save the copy, proceed to Step 9.

   

9. Save the copy.

   Highlight Save as new file and press J to save the copy to a new file. To replace the original movie file with the edited copy, highlight Overwrite existing file and press J.

   

Saving Selected Frames

To save a copy of a selected frame as a JPEG still:

1. Pause the movie on the desired frame.

   Play the movie back as described in “Viewing Movies” (0 Viewing Movies), pressing the center of the multi selector to start and resume playback and 3 to pause. Pause the movie at the frame you intend to copy.

   

2. Choose Save current frame.

   Press i or J, then highlight Save current frame and press J to create a JPEG copy of the current frame. The image will be recorded at the dimensions selected for Frame size/frame rate in the movie shooting menu (0 Frame Size, Frame Rate, and Movie Quality).