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| Bigguy |
| Posted: Oct 19 2002, 06:48 AM |
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I have read many pages and posts, downloaded V-dub, and read the entire help file. I put it in strem-copy mode to try to delete unwanted scenes to cut the length down.
I marked the start and stop and had an inch long section in that bar area. Can I keep that small section (for deleting), then skip over good stuff, then mark another area to delete, and so on and so forth?
It seemed that when I tried to add the second area, it simply enlarged the first section to include everything up to my second end mark.
Any suggestions on deleting multiple sections spread throughtout the mpeg are greatly appreciated.  |
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| ChristianHJW |
| Posted: Oct 19 2002, 09:17 AM |
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Please note that your MPEG wont be an MPEG after being processed by Virtualdub, but an AVI file. Not sure if this is what you want ...
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| Bigguy |
| Posted: Oct 19 2002, 05:40 PM |
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Thanks Christian,
I did not know it was a file conversion progrm as well. As long as it is playable on my PC I don't care if it is made into an AVI, so the original questions on "how to" still apply.
I do need to add an important question. In this whole process, is a second file created (the avi), leaving my mpeg unchanged - in case the avi doesn't workout? Or is the mpeg you started with gone?
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| fccHandler |
| Posted: Oct 19 2002, 06:53 PM |
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1) The original mpeg is unchanged.
2) You can only mark one section at a time, so what you have to do is mark the section you want to delete, choose Edit->Delete selection, then mark the next section, delete it, and so on.
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| Bigguy |
| Posted: Oct 19 2002, 07:30 PM |
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Thanks for the help!  |
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| Bigguy |
| Posted: Oct 19 2002, 08:25 PM |
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I appreciate the help that I'm getting. I did the steps of cutting out one section at a time. At the end, I told it to save the file as an avi, and re-named it. I get the message that the algorythem used in the mpeg is not compatable with avi.
Can you please reccomend any program a 50 year old can understand that will allow me to chop sections out of an mpeg to shorten it, to then burn to cd-rom?
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| ChristianHJW |
| Posted: Oct 19 2002, 09:39 PM |
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It seems your video in the MPEG file is MPEG2, not MPEG1. MPEG2 is for sure incompatible with AVI, so there is no way to edit your file with Virtualdub ( in fact i am not sure it would work with MPEG1, all i know is that Vdub can ead MPEG1, dont know if MPEG1 can be in AVI ).
You may try a program called TMPEGencoder ( get it from www.doom9.org download section ). This program is normally to encode VCDs/S-VCDs, but in 'file' 'MPEG tools' there are also some easy to understand cut and merge tools for all sorts of MPEG streams ..... slow but works ...
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| fccHandler |
| Posted: Oct 20 2002, 03:33 AM |
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| QUOTE (ChristianHJW @ Oct 19 2002, 05:39 PM) | It seems your video in the MPEG file is MPEG2, not MPEG1.
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Actually, it can't be MPEG-2, or he wouldn't have been able to open it in VirtualDub.
To Bigguy:
It sounds to me like you have video set to "Direct Stream Copy." You must set it to "Full Processing Mode" to recompress the video after making your cuts. You'll need a good video compression codec; I recommend (as always) DivX 5.0.2.
In my experience, cutting an MPEG with TMPGEnc can get tedious (if you have a lot of cuts) and it is never as accurate as VirtualDub. Of course, the advantage of using TMPGEnc is that the MPEG doesn't need to be recompressed.
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