posted by [identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com at 09:43pm on 20/08/2011
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
 
posted by [identity profile] mrorangemonkey.livejournal.com at 10:11pm on 20/08/2011
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.

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