For the vidders on my flist

[mitchy]

A question for you.

I have a series of AVI files (episodes of a TV show). I want to cut the "Previously on.." segment at the beginning of each ep, because it's screwing up the subtitles. What's the quickest and simplest way to do that? (I can't get QuickTime to work which is a pity as that sounded easy as). I've tried VirtualDub and that was ok, but it took 15 minutes to save each ep. Blarg. I've got 26 of these things!

Any thoughts? :)

Comments

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

If you see me online at 7am in the morning, vibrating like a cricket and complaining I haven't had any sleep, you'll know I took your advice :D

[mrorangemonkey.livejournal.com]

Slightly more usefully, I have now discovered that RAD Video Tools (which is free, I think) allow you to specify a start and end frame when converting a video file. In theory one can convert file AA.avi, x frames long to file BB.avi, x-y frames long. Obviously, you have to find the frame numbers you want to start from and finish at (I'd view the file in AVS Media player and take snap shots of the start and stop points - AVS helpfully includes the frame number in the filename.

Oh, and RAD Video Tools can be a little antsy about timing - when I was convert Bryan's video for the RAM xmas thing I found this out because the sound track can out shorter than the movie. Or maybe the other way round. Either way, the frame rate of the converted file was different to the original. Which goes to show that people should hold the camera the right way up when filming video.