Posted by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] on 09/19/05 23:00

On 19 Sep 2005 15:47:39 -0700, quentinhudson@hotmail.com wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have started a temporary contract position with a small multimedia
>company. Although, my main area is Windows support, I am constantly
>bothered by people wanting spliced and diced audio and video files.
>Although I am not familiar with either area, the audio editing software
>is fairly intuitive and I have got by. I am afraid with video tools
>(Avid and Premiere), I am lost.
>
>I dont want to be able to do anything fancy, but if someone asks me to
>split an mpeg or an avi file of 2 hours into one chunk of 40 minutes
>and one of 1 hour 20, I want to be able to do it immediately. What is
>the simplest way to do this? I know there is a movie editor in XP too,
>but I couldn't even figure that one out.

Almost without exception, VirtualDub is the quickest way to chop up
AVI files, probably 1/2 hour of experimentation of its capabilties and
you'll be able to do most day to day slice n dice in about 60 seconds

http://www.virtualdub.org

Cheers - Neil

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