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Video Editing
In this section, we will discuss how to cut
and join videos of all formats. We will be using three great
software applications in this section. Virtual Dub, TMPGEnc &
Ulead's Mediastudio Pro 7.
Cutting and Joining Divx & AVI files
To cut and join Divx & AVI files, we will
use Virtual Dub.
As an example...
Say you recorded a program or movie from TV
and would like to remove the commercials from the captured video.
This can easily be done with Virtual Dub. First thing we need to do
is cut the video clips you wish to keep from that file.
First, open Virtual Dub and load the AVI
file by selecting "Open Video File" from the File menu.
As shown above, the first step is to drag
the bar located near the bottom of the program to select the beginning of
the clip you wish to keep. Then you will click on the mark in button
on step 2 above. This will mark the beginning of the clip.
Once this is done, you will drag the bar again to the end of the video
clip you wish to cut and again marking the end by clicking the mark out
button as shown on step 3 above.
Once you have marked the beginning and end
of the clip, you should see the blue bar as shown above indicating the
portion of the video you will be cutting.
The next and most important thing is to
select "Direct stream copy" from both the Video and Audio menus.
What this does is save the clip instantly without the need to recompress
the video which could take a very long time. This will
copy the clip uncompressed and the files will be much larger so it is
important to save these to a large partition or hard drive. For
video editing, it is good to have one large partition or disk to be used
as you "dump" drive.
We are now ready to save the video clip.
Select "Save as AVI" from the File menu. Follow the exact steps
above to continue to cut and save the clips from the captured file.
Now you should have all the video clips of the program without the
commercials.
The next step is to join all the clips and
save it as one AVI video file.
To join all the clips you have saved, first
open the first clip in Virtual Dub. Next, select "Append AVI
segment" from the file menu and select the second clip. Continue to
do this until you have selected all the video clips. Then
simply select "Save as AVI..." from the file menu to save it as one AVI
file. This may take a while depending on your system.
Your done! You now have a commercial
free movie/program! :)
We have learned how to cut and join AVI and
Divx files. Now let's do the same with other video formats
like VCD, SVCD, XVCD, MPEG1 & MPEG2.
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