Posted by Jukka Aho on 09/20/05 17:24

Gary Eickmeier wrote:

>> 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?

> There is no need to purchase a special program to do any of this
> simple stuff.

Except that Avid's NLEs and Premiere are both quite heavy-weight
overkills for this sort of thing (merely starting up the beasts takes a
long time!), and at least Premiere does not know how to smart-render
MPEG video without purchasing additional plugins.

That, and you can get a demo version of TMPGEnc for free (with its
built-in "MPEG Tools" for GOP-bound MPEG splitting). VirtualDub (for
splitting AVIs) is a GPL'd program and thus freely available, too, so
there's no need to "purchase" anything, anyway.

--
znark

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